Golden Finance reports that on Friday (August 15), at the close in New York, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose by 3.89 basis points to 4.3238%, an increase of 4.08 basis points for the week. Three minutes before the release of U.S. PPI data on August 14, it had dropped to 4.1979%. The yield on the 2-year U.S. Treasury bond rose by 2.44 basis points to 3.7568%, with an overall decline of 0.55 basis points for the week, showing a V-shaped trend; it had also dropped to 3.6513% before the PPI data was released. The yield spread between the 2-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds increased by 1.449 basis points to +56.485 basis points, with a cumulative increase of 4.429 basis points for the week.