Bonds

Treasury yields fall ahead of the Fed's anticipated rate cut

Key Points
  • Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer travel to Shanghai, China to resume trade negotiations.
  • On the data front, Dallas Fed manufacturing figures for July will be released at around 10:30 a.m. ET.

U.S. government debt prices rose on Monday as traders wait to hear from the Federal Reserve later this week.

The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, was lower at 2.0505% while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell to 2.5763%.

Traders are bracing for a potential cut in interest rates for the first time in since the financial crisis. The U.S. Federal Reserve meets Tuesday and will announce its latest rate decision on Wednesday.

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Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are set resume trade negotiations. It marks their first official in-person meeting with the Chinese delegation since the G-20 truce.

The two-day meeting is set to take place in Shanghai on Tuesday after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached a ceasefire last month. However neither side is showing any sense of urgency for a deal.

"With the Fed aggressively offsetting the economic and market shock of the trade war, the incentives to reach a deal have weakened," Ethan Harris, Bank of America's global economist said in a note on Monday.

On the data front, Dallas Fed manufacturing figures for July will be released at around 10:30 a.m. ET.

The U.S. Treasury is set to auction $72 billion in 13-week and 26-week bills.