Treasury yields fall as investors digest hotter-than-expected CPI data

Cnbc · 🇮🇷 public Iran · May 13, 2026 · 313 words · By Joseph Wilkins

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What to know about Treasury yields fall as investors digest hotter-than-expected CPI data

Treasury yields fell on Wednesday as investors digested the implications of a hotter-than-expected April inflation reading, which saw consumer prices rise to their highest level in nearly three years.

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What happened

Why it matters

government borrowing — fell more than 1 basis point to 4.459%.

Common ground

The 2-year Treasury note yield, which more closely tracks short-term Federal Reserve interest rate policy, was over 1 basis point lower at 3.981%.

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What concrete event or decision sits underneath the headline: Treasury yields fall as investors digest hotter-than-expected CPI data?
What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Non-seasonally adjusted consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in April?
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Claim 1: “Non-seasonally adjusted consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 3.8% in April”

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Three independent web sources (Eye On Housing, BLS report via search, and another news source) confirm non-seasonally adjusted CPI rose 3.8% in April.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier as higher energy costs replaced tariffs as the driver of higher prices for Americans.Note: Data is seasonally adjusted year-over-year ch…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/economy/cpi-infl…

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web search NEUTRAL — On a non-seasonally adjusted basis, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 3.8% in April from a year ago, following a 3.3% increase last month, according to the BLS latest report.
https://eyeonhousing.org/2026/05/inflation-outpaced-wage-gro…

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web search NEUTRAL — Seasonally Unadjusted CPI. Before seasonal adjustments, the CPI-U for April 2025 increased by 3.8% Y-o-Y to an index level of 333.020. Since these figures are unadjusted, they include regular seasonal…
https://themoneymechanics.com/2026/05/13/the-consumer-price-…

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Claim 2: “The 2-year Treasury note yield... was over 1 basis point lower at 3.981%.”

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One source mentions a yield of 3.981% on a Monday afternoon, but the evidence does not confirm a fall of over 1 basis point to 3.981% on the specified Wednesday.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw sterling from the (first) European Exchange Rate M…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman, financial analyst, and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treas…
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Claim 3: “Annual core inflation, excluding food and energy, rose by 2.8%”

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The New York Times, NPR, and Breitbart all independently report that annual core inflation rose by 2.8% in April.

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web search NEUTRAL — The increase was driven largely by energy prices, up 3.8 percent since the previous month. But the “core” index, stripping out volatile food and energy prices, also rose 2.8 percent over the year in A…
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/12/business/inflation-r…

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web search NEUTRAL — Excluding volatile food and energy costs, "core" inflation was 2.8% in April. Housing prices also contributed to higher inflation in April.
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/12/nx-s1-5818279/inflation-cpi-g…

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web search NEUTRAL — April’s Inflation Was Broad-Based, and Trend Inflation Was Strong. Core CPI, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.4 percent in April after increasing just 0.2 percent in each of the prior two months…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/12/breitbart-busi…

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Claim 4: “airfares, which were up 2.8% m/m”

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Claim 5: “the central bank's stated goal of 2%”

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Claim 6: “yields and prices move in opposite directions”

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Multiple independent cross-references from CNBC confirm the inverse relationship between bond yields and prices.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/uk-election-result-keir-star…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — One basis point equals 0.01%, or 1/100th of 1%, and yields and prices move inversely to one another.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/treasury-yields-edge-lower-a…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/treasury-yields-slide-iran-p…

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Claim 7: “the fastest since May 2023”

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The New York Times and Drudge Retort both report that the April inflation rate was the fastest/highest since May 2023.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The April–May strikes (also known as the milk strike or mine strike) were labour strikes in 1943 in the Netherlands against forced labour during the Second World War and it is considered to be the mos…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — April J. Mayes is an American historian who studies the history and social issues of the Dominican Republic and Caribbean region. She is the Warren Finney Day Professor of History at Pomona College in…
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Claim 8: “The longer-dated 30-year Treasury bond yield was broadly flat at 5.023%.”

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Both CNBC and MSN report the 30-year Treasury bond yield at 5.023%.

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Claim 9: “faster than the 3.7% year-over-year inflation expected by economists polled by Dow Jones”

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CNBC, CNN Business, and The Wall Street Journal (via web search) all report that economists polled by Dow Jones/WSJ expected inflation of 3.7%.

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web search NEUTRAL — For the first time in three years, Americans’ wages are no longer outpacing inflation.Economists had expected prices to rise 0.6% from March and for the annual rate to climb to 3.7%. Prior to the late…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/12/economy/us-cpi-inflation-apri…

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web search NEUTRAL — Inflation Accelerates After Weeks of War in Iran. The Consumer Price Index rose 3.8% in April from a year earlier as higher energy costs replaced tariffs as the driver of higher prices for Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/business/economy/cpi-infl…

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web search NEUTRAL — Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had expected inflation of 3.7%.Energy prices accounted for over 40% of the month-to-month increase. Energy was up 18% from a year earlier; within that gaso…
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/inflation-soa…

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Claim 10: “above the 2.7% anticipated by economists”

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While sources confirm the actual core inflation was 2.8%, the provided evidence does not explicitly state that economists anticipated exactly 2.7% for the annual core rate (one source mentions a 0.3% month-on-month expectation).

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web search NEUTRAL — Inflation Rate in the United States increased to 3.30 percent in March from 2.40 percent in February of 2026. This page provides - United States Inflation Rate - actual values, historical data, foreca…
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi

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web search NEUTRAL — Economists anticipated inflation to rise 0.6% month-on-month on a headline basis, with core up 0.3% versus March. Headline inflation rose 3.8% on an annual basis.
https://sherwood.news/markets/us-april-cpi-inflation-2026-ir…

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web search NEUTRAL — The annual inflation rate in the United States was 2.4% for the 12 months ending February, the same as previously, according to U.S. Labor Department data released March 11, 2026. The next update is s…
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl…

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Claim 11: “One basis point is equal to 0.01%”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC explicitly state that one basis point equals 0.01%.

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Claim 12: “Economists polled by Dow Jones are expecting a headline increase of 0.5% on the month [for April's producer price index]”

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Claim 13: “The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note fell more than 1 basis point to 4.459%.”

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Web search results mention 10-year yields falling to 4.35% or 4.34%, but none of the provided evidence specifically confirms the figure of 4.459% for the specified Wednesday.

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Claim 14: “Excluding volatile food and energy prices, this figure is expected to come in 0.4% higher”

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