Year Bond: Basis Points

year bond: Meanwhile, later in the trading day, a truck plowed into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least nine people, according to Market Watch. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.14% shed 5.7 basis points to 2.544%, its largest one-day drop since Aug. 29. In Ankara, a lone gunman shot and killed the Russian ambassador to Turkey. The two-year yield TMUBMUSD02Y, 0.36% slipped 3.2 basis points to 1.228%, and the 30-year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.16% declined 6.6 basis points to 3.122%, also its largest one-day drop since Aug. 29. Demand for bonds increased as investors sought safety plays to protect themselves from a perceived increase in global political risks. The Turkish lira USDTRY, -0.3657% and Turkish stocks TUR, 1.53%also declined after Russia deemed the Ankara shooting a terrorist attack. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.