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Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

The yield on 10 - year Treasury bond is hovering near its highest levels in four years.

Treasury yields edged higher in early morning trade with the 2 - year yield near 1.90 percent and the 10 - year yield near 2.48 percent.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was higher around 2.398 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond held near 3.002 percent.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury note yield was lower in Tuesday trading, near 2.31 percent.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

Demand for U.S. Treasurys in recent days helped push both the 10 - year and 30 - year bond yields to near their all - time lows Thursday, July 12.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield may approach 3 %, but it shouldn't be anywhere near 5 %.

After rising to roughly 2.60 % in early March — when consumer confidence was near its recent zenith — 10 - year Treasury yields fell to around 2.15 % by mid-June.

«It grows earnings not so much by the brilliance of management or the diversity of their operations, as Welch and Immelt claim, but through the acquisition of companies (more than 100 companies in each of the last five years) using high - powered, high P / E multiple GE stock or cheap near Treasury Bill yielding commercial paper.

More impressive still is that in spite of the Fed raising short - term interest rates by a total of 1.0 % since mid-December 2015, the approximately 2.30 % yield on the 10 - year Treasury as of mid-July is near where it was at the end of 2015 and 2016 (see the chart below).

At the same time, the U.S. 10 - year Treasury bond yield dipped from 2.43 % to 2.34 % week - over-week, while WTI oil prices jumped to a 2 1/2 - year high near $ 56.

Donald Trump's election victory drove up 10 - year U.S. Treasury yields and pushed the S&P 500 near record highs, reinforcing the inverse bond - stock relationship.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield may approach 3 %, but it shouldn't be anywhere near 5 %.

Rather than pursue cross-over corporates or high - yield or even long - term investment grade corporates, we have stayed near the middle of the curve with funds like: (1) SPDR Nuveen Muni (TFI), (2) Vanguard Total Bond (BND), (3) iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury (IEF) and (4) iShares 3 - 7 Year Treasury (IEI).

That year, long - term U.S. Treasury bond yields peaked near 15 %.

Nearly a decade ago, the 10 - year Treasury yield finished 2007 at 4.02 %; it now stands near 2.50 %.1 When adjusted for inflation, even the 0.75 % bump in the 10 - year Treasury yield amounts to a modest 0.40 % increase.

The 10 - year US Treasury yield rose 0.30 % from Oct. 14 through Nov. 16, based largely on anticipation of the Federal Reserve's next move.1 Ever since the Fed drove the federal funds interest rate to near zero, the looming question has been, «Will next year finally be the year that the Fed raises rates?»

However, with interest rates at or very near historical lows — at this time, the one - month Treasury yield is 0.15 % and the five - year yield is less than 1.5 % — further interest rate declines appear unlikely.

«The S&P 500 now yields 2.3 %, while the 10 - year Treasury's yield at 2.1 % is near historic lows.

Given this outlook, Rieder favors two - year Treasuries, whose rates near 2.3 % are well above the dividend yield of the S&P 500, at 1.87 %.

For 5 -, 10 - and 30 - year Treasuries, a yield rate near 3.03 % will hold the package to roughly a zero total return after 2 years.

This is the common, intuitive, yet specious claim that because yields on 10 - year Treasury notes are near record lows at 1.64 %, stocks are so flattered into appearing cheap by comparison that surely they must rise.