U.S. Treasury yields retreated on Friday after briefly hitting the highest level since January 2025 the day before, when Brent crude oil’s climb above $100 per barrel reignited inflationary fears.
The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note — the key benchmark for mortgage and auto loans and credit card debt — was last seen down one basis point at 4.693%. On Thursday, it had risen above 4.7%, the highest level since Jan. 15, 2025, before the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The 2-year Treasury note yield, which more closely tracks short-term Federal Reserve interest rate policy, pulled back almost 2 basis points to 4.333%. The longer-dated 30-year Treasury bond yield was flat.
One basis point equals 0.01%, and yields and prices move inversely to one another.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he will soon make a decision on whether to launch a “massive attack” on Iran after the conflict in the Middle East extended to a new battleground in the Red Sea.
Speaking to Axios on Thursday, the president said the proposed strikes would be bigger than anything seen in the war so far, and that Iran has not “received enough pain yet.”
“I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it,” Trump said in the interview.
U.S. forces have pummeled Iranian targets over the past two weeks, with Central Command completing a 13th consecutive night of strikes overnight.
Also on Thursday, jobless claims for the week ended July 18 came in at 187,000, below the 212,000 that economists polled by Dow Jones were expecting.
Investors will next look ahead to the latest S&P Global Flash U.S. purchasing managers index report due Friday, which measures the economic health of American manufacturing and services sectors.
— CNBC’s Chloe Taylor and Sean Conlon also contributed to this report.
