spurted

In the bond market, Treasury yields spurted higher after a report said U.S. manufacturing unexpectedly returned to growth last month.

Whenever the red stuff spurted, the audience hooted.

“For the rest of the set, they sputtered and spurted their way through complicated rhythm and tempo changes, setting up funk grooves or metal grooves or ska grooves only to abandon them a few seconds later for a tricky break or a dissonant jam, or for a drum-fill lifted from Bell Biv DeVoe’s ‘Poison,’ or for a minute or so of Bugs Bunny-type jazz,” Gold wrote.

It climbed further when the U.S. government announced the results of a sale of $24 billion in Treasury bonds and spurted still higher after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed “will not hesitate” to raise interest rates further if it feels high inflation is not fully under control.

She let out a high-pitched, screeching cry, then reared up as blood spurted from the wound.