# Treasury yields hold steady as Fed signals caution

> Bond markets pause ahead of Federal Reserve comments on inflation and economic growth.
- Title: Treasury yields hold steady as Fed signals caution · CNBC
- Summary: Bond markets pause ahead of Federal Reserve comments on inflation and economic growth. Treasury yields remained flat on Tuesday as investors awaited Federal…
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- Source: CNBC — https://cnbc.com/2026/09/22/treasury-yield-us-bond-market-trump.html
- Author: Chloe Taylor,Sean Conlon
- Published: 2026-09-22T09:11:57+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: treasury yields, federal reserve, inflation, austan goolsbee, michael barr, bond market, business, finance
## Yields hold as investors wait for Fed
U.S. Treasury yields were relatively unchanged on Tuesday as investors awaited new clues on the state of the U.S. economy.
## Where the key rates stand
The ten-year Treasury note yield was less than one basis point lower at four point nine five nine percent. The two-year note was down one basis point at four point seven four three percent. The thirty-year yield was flat at five point two nine six percent.
## Goolsbee warns on inflation timing
Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee told an audience in London he was especially attuned to elevated inflation in service-sector industries and AI data center construction raising aggregate output beyond what the economy can absorb.

> If demand overheats, there is no ambiguity about how the Fed needs to respond.
## Inflation peak keeps getting pushed back
Goolsbee noted that forecasters had spent more than a year pushing back the date when inflation was supposed to peak. Originally Q4 2025, then Q1 2026, then Q2, then Q3, then Q4, and now sometime in 2027.

> That's not a comforting pattern.
## Fed official speaks Wednesday on housing
Michael S. Barr, a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, will speak on Wednesday at a housing affordability summit in Chicago, potentially offering more guidance on the economy.
## Oil prices fall on Iran talks
Oil prices closed lower after President Donald Trump said U.S. officials had a very good three-hour meeting with the Iranian delegation. Brent crude for November fell one point zero nine percent to ninety-nine dollars and twenty-five cents a barrel. West Texas Intermediate fell one point two four percent to ninety-four dollars and fifty-nine cents a barrel.
## Key takeaway

Treasury yields remained flat on Tuesday as investors awaited Federal Reserve guidance on inflation and the economy.