U.S. Treasury Department returns rose Wednesday after President Joe Biden promised the U.S. would have enough coronavirus vaccines to vaccinate every adult in the country by the end of May.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note yield rose to 1.433% at 4 a.m. ET. The yield on the 30-year government bond was increased to 2.237%. The returns move inversely to the prices.
Late Tuesday, Biden promised to have enough vaccine doses to make them available to every adult in the US by the end of May, two months earlier than previously expected.
Government bond yields were also higher than data showing how many jobs private companies created in February, which matures at 8:15 a.m.CET on Wednesday. Economists polled by Dow Jones estimate that 225,000 private jobs were created in February, more than 174,000 in January.
The final index values for Markit’s purchasing managers for February are due at 9:45 a.m. CET.
An auction for 119-day bills worth $ 30 billion is due to take place on Wednesday.
– CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger and Maggie Fitzgerald contributed to this report.
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