Treasury Bonds

Debt funds are mutual funds that invest in fixed income securities like bonds and treasury bills, corporate bonds, commercial papers and government securities

Sentiment for bonds was buoyed by the Reserve Bank of India's Rs 35,000 crore worth bond buy on Thursday, while a fall in U.S. Treasury yields also helped.

US benchmark 10-year Treasury yields slid below 1% for first time on Tuesday, after Fed slashed interest rates by half a percentage point.

Indian 10-year government bond's yield is 4.5 per cent over comparable US Treasuries, just behind Indonesia's spread of 5.2 per cent.

Sebi meeting today: Sebi made it mandatory for all liquid schemes to have at least 20 per cent in liquid assets such as cash, government bonds, treasury bills or repo in government securities

The US economy created only 20,000 jobs in February, the weakest reading since September 2017. As a result, bond yields dropped, with the 10-year Treasuries yield hitting a two-month low of 2.607 per cent.

US gold futures for June delivery settled down $10.20, or 0.8 per cent, at $1,322.80 per ounce. The dollar index rose to a four-month high against a basket of currencies.

E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent, adding to a late bounce on Friday. Yet a relatively sharp 12 tick drop in Treasury bond futures suggested it was too early to sound an all-clear on volatility.

Analysts expect SBI's non-interest income, which includes treasure gains from its bond holding as a part of SLR requirement, to jump 56 per cent in Q3.

This potential of windfall earnings from treasury gains comes at a time when banks are facing significant challenges, from bad assets to weak credit growth to capital requirement for new regulatory norms.

The US dollar index fell as Treasury bond yields eased and investors eyed next week's Federal Reserve meeting. A weak dollar makes dollar-denominated oil less expensive for importing countries.

MSS bonds are issued with the objective of providing the central bank with a stock of securities with which it can intervene in the market for managing liquidity.

Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries touched 2.492 percent on Thursday, the highest since June 2015, after data showed factory activity accelerating in November.

Until now, banks could not hedge their interest rate risk on active government bond benchmarks other than 91-day treasury bills.

Sectors linked to interest rates weighed, however, as yields on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes touched a five-month high of 1.87 percent.

Debt funds are mutual funds that invest in fixed income securities like bonds and treasury bills, corporate bonds, commercial papers and government securities

Sentiment for bonds was buoyed by the Reserve Bank of India's Rs 35,000 crore worth bond buy on Thursday, while a fall in U.S. Treasury yields also helped.

US benchmark 10-year Treasury yields slid below 1% for first time on Tuesday, after Fed slashed interest rates by half a percentage point.

Indian 10-year government bond's yield is 4.5 per cent over comparable US Treasuries, just behind Indonesia's spread of 5.2 per cent.

Sebi meeting today: Sebi made it mandatory for all liquid schemes to have at least 20 per cent in liquid assets such as cash, government bonds, treasury bills or repo in government securities

The US economy created only 20,000 jobs in February, the weakest reading since September 2017. As a result, bond yields dropped, with the 10-year Treasuries yield hitting a two-month low of 2.607 per cent.

US gold futures for June delivery settled down $10.20, or 0.8 per cent, at $1,322.80 per ounce. The dollar index rose to a four-month high against a basket of currencies.

E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent, adding to a late bounce on Friday. Yet a relatively sharp 12 tick drop in Treasury bond futures suggested it was too early to sound an all-clear on volatility.

Analysts expect SBI's non-interest income, which includes treasure gains from its bond holding as a part of SLR requirement, to jump 56 per cent in Q3.

This potential of windfall earnings from treasury gains comes at a time when banks are facing significant challenges, from bad assets to weak credit growth to capital requirement for new regulatory norms.

The US dollar index fell as Treasury bond yields eased and investors eyed next week's Federal Reserve meeting. A weak dollar makes dollar-denominated oil less expensive for importing countries.

MSS bonds are issued with the objective of providing the central bank with a stock of securities with which it can intervene in the market for managing liquidity.

Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries touched 2.492 percent on Thursday, the highest since June 2015, after data showed factory activity accelerating in November.

Until now, banks could not hedge their interest rate risk on active government bond benchmarks other than 91-day treasury bills.

Sectors linked to interest rates weighed, however, as yields on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes touched a five-month high of 1.87 percent.