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The 10-year JGB yield added 0.5 basis point to 0.145%, while the 20-year JGB yield rose by the same amount to 0.535%. Benchmark 10-year JGB futures fell 0.09 point to 150.74, with a trading volume of 29,086 lots. The 10-year Treasury yield jumped as high as
1.8550% in Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan on Tuesday left unchanged its yield curve control settings, as widely expected, even as it slightly upgraded its inflation forecasts. "The bond market reaction to the BOJ policy meeting was
limited, but several minutes later the market sold off in tandem
with the stock market and yen under pressure from the rise in
U.S. yields," said In most other JGB tenors though, yields ended flat, with the
two-year yield unchanged at minus 0.075%, the
five-year yield at minus 0.025%, and the 30-year
yield at 0.710%.
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