{"id":452530,"date":"2026-02-06T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:11:09","slug":"investors-weigh-the-state-of-the-u-s-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/452530\/","title":{"rendered":"investors weigh the state of the U.S. economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York on January 23, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Treasury yields were relatively unchanged on Friday as investors continued to assess the state of the American economy. <\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US10Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">10-year Treasury<\/a>\u00a0yield was down less than 1 basis point at 4.202%, as was the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US30Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">30-year Treasury<\/a>\u00a0yield at 4.856%. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/US2Y\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2-year Treasury<\/a>\u00a0note yield was flat at 3.483%.<\/p>\n<p>One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, investors will be monitoring the University of Michigan&#8217;s consumer sentiment index, which is due to be published at 10 a.m. ET. <\/p>\n<p>It comes after a weaker-than-expected ADP private payrolls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/adp-jobs-report-january-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> on Wednesday, and figures on Thursday showed U.S. job openings in December fell to their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/datapreview\/2026\/02\/04\/stock-market-today-live-updates.html#108261937-dlZJTW9mf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest level since September 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/04\/january-jobs-report-government-shutdown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nonfarm payrolls report<\/a> for January, originally due Friday, has been delayed until Feb. 11 due to the brief government shutdown that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/03\/house-republicans-reopen-us-government-shutdown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ended<\/a> earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p>The report is expected to show a gain of 60,000 jobs for the month, after a 50,000 increase in December, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones. The unemployment rate is forecast to hold steady at 4.4%. <\/p>\n<p>Next week, investors will be watching the release of the consumer price index report for January, which has also been delayed till Feb. 13, two days later than originally scheduled. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Cox contributed to this report <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[4592,449,28,122,1051,101,15492,15489,15490,15487,15486,15491,3657,15488,21],"class_list":["post-452530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bonds","tag-breaking-news-economy","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-government-debt","tag-treasury-bills","tag-treasury-notes","tag-u-s-10-year-treasury","tag-u-s-2-year-treasury","tag-u-s-30-year-treasury","tag-u-s-economy","tag-u-s-treasury-bonds","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}