US government bond yield curve flattening againKaren Brettel
U.S. government debt yieldswhipsawed on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the central bank's quarter-point rate cut was simply a mid-cycle "adjustment." At around 4:04 p.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark10-year Treasury note, a benchmark for auto loans, mor...
A yield curve chart shows how much money you can make by investing in government bonds for different lengths of time. Normally, the longer you invest, the more money you make. So the line on the chart goes up as the time gets longer. When the line goes down this is called an inverted...
The yield curve shows the returns on bonds of different maturities, from a few months on the so-called short end to as long as 100 years on some corporate bonds. The longest-duration Treasury bond (meaning fixed-interest debt backed by the U.S. government) is 30 years. ...
The New York Federal Reserve puts the chance of a recession at 39% in the next 12 months, the highest level since the Great Recession that ended in mid-2009. The 10-year Treasury note yield fell more than 50 basis points last month amid the flight to safer assets including government deb...
Why Look at the Yield Spread? If you look at short-term and long-term bonds, you can tell a lot from their interest rates. When you buyTreasury notes(or "T-notes"), for instance, you earn interest because the U.S. government is selling you a debt instrument, or in simple terms, ...
Overall, gold should be structurally well-supported under a Trump administration. The key downside risk to this scenario is that tariffs and government spending could see a resurgence in inflation and prompt the Fed to raise rates, which will in turn put downward pressure on gold prices. ...
“At PIMCO, we are already making incremental adjustments in response to rising U.S. deficits,” they added. “Specifically, we’re less inclined to lend to the U.S. government at the long end of the yield curve, favoring opportunities elsewhere.” ...
Controlling yields has taken different forms. In 1941, the US’s entry into the second world war required a huge increase in government spending. By March 1942 the Treasury and the Fed agreed on yield curve control, anchored at the short end with bills at three-eighths, or 0.375 per cent ...
US government bond yields hit their highest levels since July as investors weighed the implications of Donald Trump’s election victory on debt markets. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was up 0.14 percentage points to 4.43 per cent, its highest level in four months. The yield on ...