Suffice to say that it appears that a bear squeeze is in progress, fuelled by falling bond yields and growing expectations that the Fed is done and interest rates will fall sooner than expected. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury illustrates the point. The yield has fallen back to the ...
To say this has been an interesting year in financial markets is an understatement. Equities have been stronger than most expected, and the 10-year US Treasury yield is up 40 basis points as of 13 September. So where are we now as we head into the homestretch of ...
10-year Treasury yield races past the 4% level U.S. Treasury yieldssurged after the CPI reportwas released on Thursday morning, as traders feared that the Federal Reserve would have to hike rates even higher to combat inflation. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield jumped 17 basis points to...
Banks with assets above $10 billion receive the lesser of 6 percent or the yield on the 10-year Treasury note at the most recent auction prior to the dividend payment. U.S. taxpayers have good reason to be alarmed by the Fed’...
“Market volatility — and the associated flight to quality — continued unabated this week,” says Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. “The yield on the 10-year Treasury dropped another 15 basis points, and the 30-year mortgage rate fell 7 basis points as well, to 3.72 percent...
My end-of-year S&P targets have already been met, but we could see a slight extension to 6150 before an aggressive pullback—around 2-3% above current levels. With many short-term treasury bills offering a risk-free return of over 4%, it may make sense to park cash in these instruments...