Rising WTI lifts Treasury yields to 4.75% and drags US stocks lower
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Renewed Middle East tensions lifted WTI more than 2%, intensifying inflation concerns and pushing the 10-year US Treasury yield to a 19-month high near 4.75%. Markets repriced the probability of a September Fed hike materially higher, pressuring major US equity indices. The oil-led rise in yields is tightening financial conditions, weighing on rate-sensitive sectors while supporting energy producers and weakening fuel-intensive industries.
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● High
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NCCO1OILWTI2USD/USDT+4.62%
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▼ Bearish
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Renewed Middle East tensions, including the first US-Iran exchange of strikes in about a month, pushed WTI crude up more than 2%. Higher energy costs stoked inflation worries and sent the 10-year US Treasury yield to a 19-month high of 4.75%, while markets lifted the odds of a Fed rate hike next month to 64% from 36%. Major US equity benchmarks fell broadly, with declines across the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq.
