Treasury Yields Rise Sharply as Investors Digest Fed Rate Increase – The Wall Street Journal

U.S. government bonds yields rose Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it would lift short-term interest rates and signaled they could reach nearly 2% by the end of the year.

In recent trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was 2.239%, according to Tradeweb, compared with 2.160% Tuesday. The two-year Treasury yield—which is especially sensitive to changes in monetary policy—was recently 1.989%, up from 1.855% Tuesday.

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