The yield on a 10 -
year Treasury note climbed to 2.54 percent Wednesday, the first time it has been above 2.5 percent since September 2014.
The yield on the benchmark 10 -
year Treasury note climbed to 3.122 percent Thursday, its highest market since July 8, 2011, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond hit 3.248 percent, its highest level since July 13, 2015.
Not exact matches
The yield on the benchmark 10 -
year Treasury note traded at 2.959 percent at 2:09 p.m. ET, while the yield on the two -
year note yield
climbed to 2.500 percent.
U.S. government debt yields continued their upward
climb Wednesday, with the rate on the 10 -
year Treasury note edging above the 3 percent benchmark it hit Tuesday for the first time since 2014.
By the end of that month, yields on the 10 -
year Treasury note had
climbed by nearly one - half of one percent — yet money continued to flow in to bond funds.
With respect to interest rates, after having fallen back below 1.35 % on the 10 -
year Treasury note, last summer, yields have
climbed steadily this fall.
Treasury yields leapt again yesterday at the long end, with the 10 -
year note climbing above 3.7 %, its highest close since November.
While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S.
Treasury's benchmark 10 -
year note immediately
climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four
years.
The yield on 10 -
year U.S.
Treasury notes slipped slightly to 2.96 per cent following the release of the statement, while the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks
climbed to its highest level of the day and the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell.
The benchmark 10 -
year Treasury note's yield's
climb of some 60 basis points in a month and move into a trading range between 5.25 percent and 5.50 percent already signals the market is in a downtrend.
For instance, since the early 1980s, the yield on the benchmark 10 -
year Treasury note has fallen from roughly 16 % to 2 % and the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index has
climbed from less than eight times earnings to 25 times earnings.
While the difference between two - and 10 -
year Treasury notes has
climbed over the past week to 51 basis points, the gap isn't far off decade lows.