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Investors and traders flocked back into the safety of U.S. government debt on Tuesday, causing long-term yields to drop in a manner that suggests rising worries about the risk of a faster-than-expected economic slowdown. <\/p>\n

The benchmark 10-year yield
\n BX:TMUBMUSD10Y
\n ended down by 11.5 basis points at 4.171%, while the 30-year rate
\n BX:TMUBMUSD30Y
\n dropped by a slightly bigger magnitude to 4.306%. Those are the lowest levels for both rates since Aug. 31-Sept. 1, according to 3 p.m. Eastern time figures from Dow Jones Market Data.<\/p>\n

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Multiple factors appeared to be at play during Tuesday\u2019s session aside from just U.S. growth prospects. One was expectations for a rate cut next year by the European Central Bank. Another is the decision by investors and traders to remove some term premium \u2014 or compensation that had been demanded for the risks of holding longer-term debt to maturity and was put into place earlier this year. <\/p>\n

The third factor the market is weighing, even if it may not be fully reflected in Tuesday\u2019s moves, is the possibility of an unexpectedly faster U.S. economic slowdown that could morph into a growth scare and undermine expectations for a soft landing, analysts said. The Atlanta Fed\u2019s GDPNow estimate is for a 1.2% real GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter, down from 1.8% last Thursday. <\/p>\n

LPL Chief Global Strategist Quincy Krosby said the 10-year yield needs to be watched closely because a faster downward pace of decline would suggest \u201ca growth scare has taken hold.\u201d<\/p>\n

The benchmark 10-year rate finished 40.4 basis points below its 2-year counterpart
\n BX:TMUBMUSD02Y,<\/span>
\n keeping the spread between the two yields negative. Ordinarily, the spread should be positive when investors and traders see brighter U.S. prospects ahead. It goes negative when pessimism generally prevails, and the spread has remained inverted since mid-2022. <\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s move in the curve \u201cdoesn\u2019t quite yet suggest a growth scare, which would be accompanied by a more severe flattening of the 2s10s spread,\u201d said Tom Nakamura, a currency strategist and co-head of fixed income at AGF Investments in Toronto, which managed $29.7 billion (CAD $40.3 billion) as of Oct. 31. <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of October, the spread was inverted by around 16 basis points and is now inverted by around 40 basis points, versus more than 100 basis points back in the summer when more Fed hikes were expected to be delivered. We are at the stage where the market is still hoping for a best-of-all-worlds scenario of a soft landing, with growth coming down in a still-healthy manner. The next phase is, \u2018do we get more evidence of a soft landing or does this snowball into something more severe like a hard landing?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Long-term yields finished at three-month lows on Tuesday as investors weighed a mix of U.S. data that included an update on job openings, which fell to a 28-month low of 8.7 million for October, and an ISM reading on the services sector, which picked up in November. Meanwhile, U.S. stocks
\n DJIA<\/p>\n

SPX<\/p>\n

COMP
\n finished mostly lower. <\/p>\n

Tom Graff, chief investment officer at Baltimore-based Facet, which oversees around $2 billion, said Tuesday\u2019s moves reflected some combination of headwinds facing Europe, prompting the need for a 2024 rate cut by the ECB, and term premium that was starting to come out of the U.S. bond market. <\/p>\n

In addition, concern in markets \u201cis shifting from solely worrying about inflation to now worrying about whether slowing economic data could continue,\u201d Graff said, citing recent jobs- and manufacturing-linked reports. \u201cI would be pretty concerned if Friday\u2019s jobs data comes in weaker than October\u2019s. A soft landing is the consensus now, but now we need to see if we go from a soft landing to a hard landing.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Investors and traders flocked back into the safety of U.S. government debt on Tuesday, causing long-term yields to drop in a manner that suggests rising worries about the risk of a faster-than-expected economic slowdown. The benchmark 10-year yield BX:TMUBMUSD10Y ended down by 11.5 basis points at 4.171%, while the 30-year rate BX:TMUBMUSD30Y dropped by a slightly bigger magnitude to 4.306%. Those are the lowest levels for both rates since Aug. 31-Sept. 1, according to 3 p.m. Eastern time figures from Dow Jones Market Data. 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