bond yields slipped friday ahead of pivotal data on jobs that could determine the size of the federal reserve interestrate hike in two weeks   the yield on the 2year treasury tmubmusd02y was 485 down 29 basis points yields move in the opposite direction to prices   the yield on the 10year treasury tmubmusd10y was 386 down 51 basis points   the yield on the 30year treasury tmubmusd30y was 382 down 33 basis points attention was turning to the labor department’s jobs report due at 830 am eastern economists polled by the wall street journal expect 225000 jobs outside the farm sector will have been created in february and for the unemployment rate to stay at 34 federal reserve chair jerome powell said in congressional hearings that the central bank may resume bigger rate increases depending on what the data on jobs and inflation on say one support for bonds is paradoxically coming from bankingsector turmoil which itself is tied to the deep inversion of the treasury yield curve silicon valley bank parent svb financial sivb said it was raising equity to fill a nearly 2 billion hole on its balance sheet after selling a lossmaking portfolio of treasury securities bank sector shares slumped in the us on thursday and in europe and japan on friday