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Global government bond prices recovered as yields near multi-decade highs, despite lingering energy-price risks. UK 10-year gilt yield fell 5bp to 5.18% after earlier touching its highest since August 2007; Germany 10-year bund yield slipped 2bp and the US 10-year Treasury yield fell 1bp to 4.77%. Traders monitored remarks from Trump on Wednesday, who hinted the latest US-Iran round would be short-lived. Oil's earlier spike had stoked inflation concerns and rate-hike bets that pushed global yields higher; oil has since retreated. Kevin Zhao, head of global sovereign fixed income and FX at UBS Asset Management, said Germany's 30-year bund yield rose to 3.84% this week, its highest this year, and that he has been buying the long end of the German curve. "That yield level is attractive," he said. "In political crisis or high-tension situations, German bunds can act as a good safe haven."

Three officials said Iran warned the United States last month it would respond forcefully if Israel launched an offensive against a ridge in southern Lebanon known as Ali al-Taher. Lebanese security sources say Hezbollah has built a command center and weapons caches beneath the ridge, which overlooks southeastern Lebanon and is among the most fiercely contested sites in the Israel-Hezbollah fighting. Hezbollah says it controls the hill and will repel any Israeli assault; the Israeli military has seized territory south of Ali al-Taher and lists the ridge as a “major operational focus.” Tehran told Washington any full-scale Israeli assault would be met by large-scale Iranian attacks. Hezbollah declined to comment on reports of Iranian forces in the area. A White House official, asked whether the U.S. had pressured Israel not to attack Ali al-Taher or about the substance of the message, said “this is not accurate.”