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Long-Dated Treasury Yields Hit 24-Year Highs, French Spread Widens as Bond Selloff Ramps Up

The 30-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.683% and the 10-year French-German yield spread reached its widest level in 14 years.

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AI Stock Rally Checked by Relentless Treasury Selloff

Nasdaq futures pared earlier gains but still rose as investors balance AI enthusiasm with an increasingly gloomy macroeconomic picture.

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Dollar Hits 3-Month High on Prospect of Higher U.S. Rates

The DXY index rose to 101.777 in early European trade with the dollar continuing to derive support from the potential for further Fed rate hikes.

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Oil Rises as Supply Concerns Persist Despite Middle East Crude Exports Recovering to Prewar Levels

The benchmark contracts traded lower initially before rebounding as risks around regional shipping and the U.S.-Iran conflict continue to weigh.

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A Tech-Fueled Stock Market Powers Through, but Limps Into the Fourth Quarter

The Nasdaq composite and the S&P 500 are on pace to finish with double-digit gains for the fourth straight year, a first since the late 1990s. Rising rates might intervene.

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AI Boom Powers South Korea's September Exports Past $120 Billion

Exports from Asia's fourth-largest economy, home to memory-chip makers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, rose 83.5% from a year earlier to $120.94 billion in September.

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Fed's Kashkari Says Inflation Still Too High, Latest Data Didn't Change View

Kashkari said the bigger surprise in the latest batch of inflation data was the revisions to gross domestic product growth that suggested a resilient economy and consumer.

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Swiss Inflation Rises to Two-Year High on Energy Costs

Annual inflation was 1.0% in September, compared with 0.8% in the prior month, reaching its highest point since August 2024.

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Money Managers Are Asking Clients to Give the Bond Market Another Chance

The bond market is selling off, but the classic 60-40 portfolio is doing what it is supposed to for the first time in years.

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Surging Yields Bring the Bond Market Back to the Turn of the Century

The 10-year Treasury yield climbs above 5.3% to a level not seen in 24 years.

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A brutal September for bonds points to an even darker October

September has been a brutal month for the bond market. If history is any guide, October might be even worse.

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Growth, Inflation Figures Show Signs of an Economic Pickup

The U.S. economy grew more than previously thought in the second quarter of 2026 and inflation remained firm in August, according to new reports.

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U.S. Crude Oil Stockpiles Jump

Commercial crude oil stocks rose by 900,000 barrels last week. Analysts had expected crude stocks to fall by 200,000 barrels.

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 01, 2026 05:15 ET (09:15 GMT)

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