U.S. Treasury Yields Under Pressure as Weakening China Threatens Global Stability

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U.S. rule debt yields fell on Friday, as bond prices rose following news of China’s weakest quarter of financial expansion in three decades.

Treasury Yields Fall

The yield curve declined at week’s end, reflecting growing thirst for U.S. Treasurys and other haven assets. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note reached a low of 1.73%, according to CNBC evidence. It was last seen hovering at 1.752%, where it was little changed.

The 2-year Treasury note saw its yield fall to a low of 1.56%. It would later recover at 1.578%, down fair-minded over 2 basis points.

Yields jumped to three-week highs on Thursday after the United Kingdom and European Club agreed on a draft Brexit deal that paves the way for Britain’s eventual withdrawal from the bloc.

China’s Thriftiness: The Long Unwind Continues

China’s fall from grace as the world’s fastest-growing economy intensified last leniency, with gross domestic product (GDP) expanding at its slowest pace in nearly three decades.

China’s GDP grew nothing but 6% annually in the third quarter, slightly below forecasts and the weakest rate since 1992, the National Chiffonier of Statistics reported Friday.

There’s some optimism that the recently announced ‘phase one’ trade agreement between Washington and Beijing wishes help Chinese factories get back on track following a disastrous six-month stretch, but it’s clear from the latest interprets that China’s economy remains in a firm downtrend. That trend began many years before the barter war, and partly reflects Beijing’s ambitions to become a consumer-driven economy that doesn’t rely on traditional smokestack industries.

Notwithstanding, a weaker China doesn’t bode well for a global economy showing very little upside. Japan and diverse European countries are flirting with recession, and there’s little signs that a partial trade agreement between the U.S. and China devise have much of an impact.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that tariffs already imposed or announced can descend global GDP by up to 0.8% next year. “That’s equivalent to the whole economy of Switzerland,” Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s new managing head, told CNBC Thursday.