U.S. Treasury yields dipped on Friday as investors digested the Federal Reserve's November meeting minutes, which suggested that interest rate hikes would be slowed in the coming months.
Yields and prices move in opposite directions and one basis point equals 0.01%.As markets re-opened for a half-day of trading on Friday, after remaining closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, they continued to absorb the Fed's November meeting minutes published earlier in the week."A substantial majority of participants judged that a slowing in the pace of increase would likely soon be appropriate," they said, echoing the tone struck by Fed speakers in recent weeks.
Central bank officials have been indicating that whilst rates will continue to rise, they will likely do so in smaller increments. This has been welcomed by many investors as concerns about the speed of rate hikes leading the U.S. economy into a recession have spread. According to the Fed minutes, uncertainty about how quickly and how significantly their policies would impact the wider economy and inflation were the biggest factors for officials when considering a slowdown of rate hikes.
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