March: Treasury Yields and u.s

march: Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury yields continued to march higher, with the 10-year yield recovering from a three-year low of 1.43% reached earlier this month to rise above 1.90%. This came even after the European Central Bank ECB unveiled a package of new stimulus measures Thursday, including a cut to the bank's key deposit rate, according to Xinhua China. The ECB also announced it would be relaunching a quantitative easing program to help shore up the flagging eurozone economy. While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended Friday's session lower, all three major indices posted weekly advances for a third straight week. Here were the main moves in the market at the end of regular trading S&P 500 GSPC -0.08%, or 2.44 points Dow DJI 0.12%, or 34.79 points Nasdaq IXIC -0.22%, or 17.75 points10-year Treasury yield TNX 11.2 bps to 1.903%Gold GC F -0.84% to 1,496.70 per ounce The Chinese government is encouraging companies to buy a certain amount of U.S. farm products including pork and soybeans and will exempt these goods from additional tariffs, China's official Xinhua News Agency said Friday. Such a move would provide some respite to U.S. farmers, who have become one of the biggest casualties in the trade war with China. This corroborates President Donald Trump's earlier assertion via Twitter post Thursday that It is expected that China will be buying large amounts of our agricultural products. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.