LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - A global bond sell-off continued on Wednesday hurting stocks and boosting the dollar on the back of data the day before showing the U.S. economy is in good health, likely limiting further rate cuts, as well as renewed reports about U.S. tariffs. The benchmark 10 year U.S. Treasury yield rose 3 bps to 4.71%, its highest since April 2024, building on Tuesday's 7 bp gain. The sell-off in bonds on Wednesday increased after a CNN report that U.S.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering declaring a national economic emergency to provide legal justification for a series of universal tariffs on allies and adversaries. This feeds into investor uncertainty, which, say analysts, is already causing a higher'term premia' - effectively the additional yield investors demand on longer dated bonds. The report, and higher yields also hurt shares, with European stocks (.STOXX), last down 0.2% giving back an earlier gain, while U.S. share futures likewise reversed course to trade down 0.2%. Also sending U.S. Treasury yields higher in recent weeks has been strong U.S. economic data causing investors to scale back their expectations for the size of Federal Reserve rate cuts this year. Numbers on Tuesday showed U.S. job openings unexpectedly increased in November while the U.S. service sector accelerated last month, suggesting the Fed would be in no rush to cut rates. 'Obviously the big theme of the week is higher U.S. yields, and stronger dollar,' said Samy Chaar, chief economist at Lombard Odier in Geneva. 'The U.S. cycle is an income-growth consumption-led cycle, and when you look at it from that angle it gives a lot of importance to labour markets - for it to continue people need to have a job and incomes, and that's why the market reacted so much to the (job openings) data.'Further U.S. employment data is due this week, with private jobs numbers later Wednesday, but Friday's non-farm payrolls figures are the most importan
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