“Goldman Sachs Group Inc. brought forward its forecast for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates after U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast, sending five-year Treasuries lower for a fourth day.
The Fed will increase its benchmark in the third quarter of 2015, rather than the first three months of 2016, Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius wrote in a report yesterday. The investment bank joins companies including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd. in moving up its Fed estimates after U.S. data last week showed the economy added 288,000 workers in June, compared with the 215,000 projected by a Bloomberg News survey of analysts.
“We might see more U.S. banks bringing forward their rate-hike expectations this week,” said Piet Lammens, head of research at KBC Bank NV in Brussels. “It was an important jobs report. It may be that we get more losses for Treasuries and higher yields today.”
The U.S. five-year yield climbed two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 1.75 percent at 6:49 a.m. New York time, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.63 percent note maturing in June 2019 dropped 3/32, or 94 cents per $1,000 face amount, to 99 13/32.
The two-year yield rose one basis point to 0.52 percent and the 10-year yield was little changed at 2.64 percent after rising 10 basis points last week.
