10-Year Yield Rises as Bond Selloff Continues
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10-Year Yield Rises as Bond Selloff Continues

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 5, 20261 min
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Plus: Brazilian stocks are up after first-round election results. And U.S. industrial-software maker PTC is the S&P 500’s top performer. Alexis Moore hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Monday, October 5. I'm Alexis Moore for The Wall Street Journal. Treasury yields traded higher today, with the 10-year closing at 5.31%. That's the highest it's closed since April 2002.

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Oil prices fell after G7 countries agreed last week to release crude and diesel reserves. Brunt crude futures fell almost 2%, to $100.32 a barrel. The NASDAQ ended the day up about 1%, the S&P 500 rose 0.7%, and the Dow was up nearly 0.2%.

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Among individual companies, Brazilian stocks are soaring after Flavio Bolsonaro's first round win in Brazil's presidential election. Shares in Brazilian Digital Bank New Bank jumped about 13% in New York. Brazilian investment management firm XP stock also rose, closing up more than 30%.

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