Record High Bond Yields Drag Stocks Down
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Record High Bond Yields Drag Stocks Down

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 20261 min
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  • Business & money

Plus: Oil prices fluctuate amid dissonant reports from the Middle East. And Oracle shares slump after reports it invoked force majeure on a data center project. Danny Lewis hosts. 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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The S&P 500 and NASDAQ finished near flat after recovering earlier losses.

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Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, September 24. I'm Danny Lewis for The Wall Street Journal. U.S. stocks struggled today as rising bond yields pressured global markets. The S&P 500 and NASDAQ finished near flat after recovering earlier losses.

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Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 161 points, about a third of a percent, by the close. Elevated government bond yields continued to climb to new highs. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield rose 0.05 percentage points to more than 5 percent,

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a 19-year record. The 30-year Treasury yield also surged, reaching nearly 5.5 percent, the highest level since June 2004. And oil prices fluctuated sharply during the afternoon as investors weighed dissonant reports

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