US yields rise after better than expected manufacturing report

Time of India

01-05-2025

Longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields rose from three-week lows on Thursday after a better than expected manufacturing report for April, which also showed that tariffs on imported goods were straining
supply
chains and maintaining elevated prices for inputs.
The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said that its manufacturing PMI dropped to a five-month low of 48.7 last month, beating economists' forecasts for a drop to 48.
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The survey's measure of prices paid by manufacturers for inputs rose to 69.8, the highest level since June 2022.
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US yields rise after better than expected manufacturing report
Longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields rose from three-week lows on Thursday after a better than expected manufacturing report for April, which also showed that tariffs on imported goods were straining supply chains and maintaining elevated prices for inputs.
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"It's cold comfort that the ISM Manufacturing
index
came in better than expected. It's more like it came in less bad than expected. The collapse of production and new
export
orders along with an increase in domestic orders suggests that costs are rising and activity is falling. That's not a great combination," said Brian Jacobsen, chief economist at Annex Wealth Management.
Traders are balancing the risks that tariffs implemented by U.S. President
Donald Trump
will slow growth and increase
inflation
, with higher price pressures potentially delaying when the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to resume interest rate cuts.
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"What we've heard from the FOMC so far is that they want to prioritise inflation expectations in any case where there's lower growth and stubbornly high inflation," said Will Compernolle, macro strategist at FHN Financial.
Yields fell to a more than three-week low earlier on Thursday after data showed that the number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits increased more than expected last week.
Friday's employment report for April is expected to show that employers added 130,000 jobs during the month, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.2%.
The labor market has remained relatively resilient, which has allowed the U.S. central
bank
to keep interest rates on hold as it also watches for signs of a potential resurgence in inflation.
Yields surged early last month after U.S. President Donald Trump announced larger than expected tariffs on trading partners, but have fallen since Trump offered a 90-day pause on most tariff increases.
Traders are now focused on what deals will be reached between the United States and trading partners and are watching for when the expected impact of the trade levies are seen in the "hard" economic data.
"If you exclude all of the sentiment surveys and the corporate earnings calls and what you would call anecdotal evidence, there's nothing in the hard data flashing red that says the Fed has to cut rates right now. So, they're waiting for any of these fears to channel into the hard data," said Compernolle.
Fed funds futures traders are pricing in a 68% likelihood of a rate cut in June, and only 7% odds of a rate reduction at the Fed's May 6-7 meeting, according to the CME Group's FedWatch Tool.
The yield on
benchmark
U.S. 10-year notes was last up 3.3 basis points at 4.208%, after earlier reaching 4.124%, the lowest since April 7.
The two-year note yield, which typically moves in step with interest rate expectations, rose 1 basis point to 3.631%. It earlier fell to 3.558%, also the lowest since April 7.
The yield curve between two-year and 10-year notes steepened by around 2 basis points to 57 basis points.