Bond Selloff Deepens on Inflation Fears
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
4.1 • 670 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:34.6 | for Tuesday, May 19th. I'm Alexis Green for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.0 | U.S. stocks pulled back today after reaching record highs last week. All three major indexes |
| 0:43.9 | finished in the red. The NASDAQ fell furthest, losing 0.8%, while the Dow and S&P 500 both |
| 0:50.2 | dropped 0.7%. Investors are worried that without a diplomatic breakthrough in Iran, oil prices |
| 0:56.0 | will keep rising, further pushing up inflation. Those fears have deepened a sell-off in government debt. |
| 1:02.2 | Yields on 10-year treasury notes rose for a third straight day, hitting 4.7 percent, their highest |
| 1:08.4 | closing level since January of last year. Oil prices slipped and then rebounded. |
| 1:13.9 | President Trump said he would hold off attacking Iran at the request of Gulf leaders. Even so, |
| 1:19.2 | Brent crude prices are up more than 20% over the last month. Among individual companies, Service Now |
| 1:25.5 | shares fell 1.5%, a day after Bank of America gave the business software company a buy rating. |
| 1:31.4 | Corweave stock dropped nearly 4% after the Wall Street Journal reported that Alphabet and Blackstone planned to create a rival AI cloud company. |
| 1:39.3 | Corweave competitor Nebulae shares also slipped 1%. |
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