Bond yields traded higher on Monday despite data by the Reserve Bank of India showed that India’s foreign exchange reserves fell by $1.9 billion to $653 billion, around six months low, in the week ended December 13. The reserves fell to their lowest since June 28.
In the global market, 10-year Treasury yield retreated on Friday as a key inflation gauge showed cooler-than-expected price pressures. Mid-morning remarks by Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee, confirming that rates could still decline next year despite the central bank's cautious stance, also helped lift bond prices. Furthermore, oil prices fell in early trading on Friday on worries about demand growth in 2025, especially in top crude importer China, putting global oil benchmarks on track to end the week down more than 2%.
Back home, the yields on new 10 year Government Stock were trading 10 basis points higher at 6.89% from its previous close of 6.79% on Friday.
The benchmark five-year interest rates were trading 11 basis points higher at 6.84% from its previous close of 6.73% on Friday.