yields on longdated us bonds crept higher after the federal reserve’s statement turned out to be less hawkish than feared saying the bank is on track to raise interest rates “soon” and avoiding any surprises regarding its plans to reduce the size of its balance sheet the 10year treasury yield ticked up above 18 and the 30year yield rose to 21 following the news as prices fell the 2year note’s yield remained near 1 in the fed’s statement following a twoday policy meeting that ended wednesday centralbank