Yields on US government debt moved in opposite directions on Oct. 21 as investors weighed AI financing costs. Reuters put the 10-year yield at 5.111% in afternoon trading, down 0.6 basis point, while the 30-year yield was 5.412% and the two-year yield rose 0.2 basis point to 4.789%. A $13 billion 20-year bond auction drew bids 2.73 times the amount offered, with a high yield of 5.469%, which Reuters described as mixed. The Nasdaq Composite gained 1.1% while CoreWeave shares fell 0.5%, as AP linked financing concerns to the company's borrowing to buy AI chips and rent them out. Futures implied a 14.9% chance of a 25-basis-point rate increase at the Fed's Oct. 28 meeting, down from 33.2% a week earlier.
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