U.S. government debt prices were lower on Friday, as investors digested comments from a key Federal Reserve official.
New York Fed President William Dudley — a voting member of the central bank's policymaking committee — said in prepared remarks he expects the U.S. economy to grow about 2 percent in 2016.
"Although the downside risks have diminished since earlier in the year, I still judge the balance of risks to my inflation and growth outlooks to be tilted slightly to the downside," Dudley said.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, sat higher at 1.7203 percent, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was also higher, at 2.5530 percent.
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On the data front, wholesale inventories fell more 0.5 percent, more than expected.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen touted the strength of the U.S. economy on Thursday, rebuffing political rhetoric suggesting a bubble is ready to burst.
"I certainly wouldn't describe this as a bubble economy," Yellen said, noting a "healing" labor market and a 5 percent headline unemployment number.
Yellen's comments came during a panel with former Fed Chairs Ben Bernanke, Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan at the International House in New York.