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US Treasuries yield crawls to 3%: market news
Shares continue rising on Thursday amid growing confidence in regards to further economic expansion. US Treasuries are sliding, their yields are slowly approaching 3% level. European bonds yields rose as well. Index Stoxx Europe 600 went up by 0,5%. Banks and insurers are the leaders of European stocks today.
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Shares continue rising on Thursday amid growing confidence in regards to further economic expansion.
US Treasuries are sliding, their yields are slowly approaching 3% level. European bonds yields rose as well. Yield of 10-year German bonds increased to 0,50% today, yield of 10-year British bonds is 1,374%. Italian 10-year bonds yield dropped to 2,837%.
Index Stoxx Europe 600 went up by 0,5%. Banks and insurers are the leaders of European stocks today. British FTSE rose by 0,3% and German DAX by 0,4%.
US futures are also rising after Nasdaq Composite set another record yesterday. It stimulated growth of shares from Tokyo to Sydney. Asian-Pacific MSCI Index rose today by 0,6%.
Euro gains for four days in a row. It is up 0,4% today and costs $1,182. Dollar declined, Turkish lira fluctuates. British pound went up 0,3% to $1,3457.
WTI oil gained 0,3% today to $64,92 a barrel after it dropped yesterday due to unexpected rise in US crude inventories.