Benchmark Treasury Yield Hits Multi-Weeks High after French Vote

U.S. government bond prices fell and drove up yields after Emmanuel Macron emerged victorious in the runoff for the French presidential election, easing geopolitical worries that anti-EU Marine Le Pen would win.

The yield for the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose 2.4 bps to 2.376 percent, its highest level in six weeks. Meanwhile, the yield on the two-year Treasury note edged up 1.2 bps to the fourth day in a row to 1.330 percent, its longest winning stretch since early March. The yield for the long bond or the 30-year note advanced 2.5 bps to 3.013 percent.

Risk appetite improved and investors shed their safe-haven assets as Macron's conclusive defeat of the far-right contender Le Pen was perceived as a decisively indicative test for the wave of populism rising over Europe, allaying markets that have become anxious over a rising support for the anti-EU establishment politicians.

The gap or spread between German and French bond yields, has now fallen to 41.7 bps from a peak of 78 bps in February. Traders are also now looking forward to the wave of economic data

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