Inflation compensation rose by 30 basis points to 1.87 percent while the real return, taken from the rate on the 10 -
Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (10 - Year TIPS), increased by 19 basis points to 0.46 percent.
The breakeven inflation rate represents a measure of expected inflation derived from 10 - Year Treasury Constant Maturity Securities (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10) and 10 -
Year Treasury Inflation - Indexed Constant Maturity Securities (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFII10).
** Consists of three unmanaged benchmarks, weighted 42 % Spliced Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Float Adjusted Index, 18 % Bloomberg Barclays U.S. 0 - 5
Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Index, 25 % US Government Money Market Funds Average, and 15 % Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate ex-USD Float Adjusted RIC Capped Index Hedged.
During the dot - com bubble, the cyclically - adjusted earnings yield of the market fell to a little over 2 % while 30 -
year Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities yielded over 4 %.
The spread between the 10 - year nominal bond and the 10 -
year Treasury Inflation Protected bond - the markets estimate of annual inflation over the period - is about 250 basis points, up 50 basis points from a year ago.
Frequency: Weekly for Treasury bills; monthly for 2 - year Treasury notes; quarterly for 5 - and 10 - year Treasury notes and, for 5 -, 10 - and 20 -
year Treasury Inflation Protection Securities, according to the schedule established by the Treasury Department.
The Citi 30 - Year TIPS (Treasury Rate - Hedged) Index tracks the performance of long positions in the most recently issued 30 -
year Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS) and duration - adjusted short positions in U.S. Treasury bonds of, in aggregate, approximate equivalent duration to the TIPS.
Inflation expectations embedded in the 10 -
year Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS) have rebounded from 1.50 % in January to 1.70 % today.
Based on the 10 -
year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) market, inflation expectations recently hit 1.75 %, the highest level since the summer of 2015.
Inflation compensation rose by 30 basis points to 1.87 percent while the real return, taken from the rate on the 10 -
Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (10 - Year TIPS), increased by 19 basis points to 0.46 percent.
Another approach to analyzing the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate is to decompose it into its real yield, taken from the rate on 10 -
Year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and inflation compensation, the residential between the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate and the 10 - Year TIPS.
Additionally, the interest rates on 5 - and 7 -
year Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) are negative.
Currently, five -
year Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities will outperform five - year Treasuries if inflation comes in above 1.86 %.
Not exact matches
The British pound plunged to a 2 1/2 -
year low on the
treasury's new - found appetite for
inflation and monetary easing.
Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the
Treasury 10 -
year is a source of panic), worried about
inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)
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 real yield on a 10 -
year Treasury bond was 0.72 percent on Nov. 17, and a 30 -
year bond yields a little more than 1 percent after
inflation.
Comparing them to a 30 -
year Treasury bond of 3 % (133 % yield ratio) and 1.9 % core
inflation, their value is evident.
Though its risen recently, the real yield on the ten
year Treasury hovers below 1 % (the 2.48 % rate, minus projected
inflation of at least 1.5 points), an extremely favorable number by historical standards.
Since the start of the
year, the five -
year Treasury yield, adjusted for
inflation, has risen about 150 percent.
The move came after benchmark 10 -
year Treasury yields last week reached 3 percent for the first time since January 2014 on concerns about rising
inflation and government borrowing.
However, Meyer acknowledged signs of a slow recovery in the housing market, which should add 0.2 % to GDP this
year, while her colleague Priya Misra, head of U.S. rates strategy, said
inflation is not a concern because the U.S.
Treasury market is on a continued flattening trend.
The U.S. 10 -
year Treasury yield reached nearly 2.65 %, the highest level since 2014, as investors shunned bonds amid expectations that the economy and
inflation will pick up.
The yield of 10 -
year Treasury notes, which tend to rise on signs of
inflation, also jumped to its highest level since early 2014.
I like the idea of having gold for
inflation risk and long - term
treasuries for deflation but I can envision a future where interest rates and
inflation remain low for
years which would be bad for returns on both.
We sold a portion of our
Treasury inflation protected securities on the advance, moving the overall duration of the Strategic Total Return Fund to about 2.3
years.
In bonds, the Market Climate continued to be characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a short 2 -
year duration, mostly in
Treasury inflation protected securities.
But longer - dated bonds fell over
inflation fears; prices for 30 -
year debt sank and fell most of the day for the benchmark 10 -
year Treasury, though the latter turned moderately positive at day's end.
And in the face of record valuations and record debt, we're seeing rising interest rates (the yield on the 10 -
year Treasury hit 3 % last week for the first time since 2014) and other signs of
inflation like rising oil and copper prices.
However, with both the 10 -
year Treasury yield and the average dividend yield for a company on the S&P 500 hovering around 2.35 %, that doesn't leave much in the way of real gains if
inflation is running at 2 % per annum.
Treasury bond prices rallied and yields on the 10 -
year fell to between 2.8 % and 2.85 % following the release of benign
inflation data and weaker - than - expected retail sales figures.
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inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 -
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Plus, the 10 -
year Treasury rate has moved up to close to 2.90 %, and may keep rising if
inflation picks up.
Low or negative real interest rates, measured by the difference between the 3 - month
Treasury bill yield and the
year - over-
year rate of CPI
inflation.
Minus
inflation, the two -
year Treasury yielded negative 0.96 percent in April; the five -
year, negative 0.38 percent; and the 10 -
year, a paltry 0.10 percent.
Sure, you can devalue those claims through
inflation, but only if the debt is in the form of long - maturity bonds (which is why the recent discussion of issuing 50 - 100
year Treasury bonds seems understandable but also a bit nefarious).
As usual, we need not make specific interest rate forecasts - the fact that prevailing valuations and market action are unfavorable is sufficient to hold the Strategic Total Return Fund to a relatively muted duration of about 2
years, largely in
Treasury inflation - protected securities.
«Let's consider that U.S. 10 -
year Treasury bonds have been yielding around 1.7 % for most of the
year while the annual run rate of
inflation is 2.2 %, thus guaranteeing a destruction of purchasing power for the holders,» Brown writes.
These conditions comprise the following: S&P 500 overvalued with the Shiller P / E (the ratio of the S&P 500 to the 10 -
year average of
inflation - adjusted earnings) greater than 18; overbought with the S&P 500 within 3 % of its upper Bollinger band (2 standard deviations above the 20 - period average) at daily, weekly, and monthly resolutions, more than 7 % above its 52 - week smoothing, and more than 50 % above its 4 -
year low; overbullish with the 2 - week average of advisory bullishness (Investors Intelligence) greater than 52 % and bearishness below 28 %; and yields rising with the 10 -
year Treasury bond yield higher than 6 - months earlier.
The benchmark 10 -
year Treasury yield tends to correlate with rising
inflation expectations.
Without the Federal Reserve's intervention, Mr. Paulsen says, the 10 -
year Treasury yield would be in the vicinity of 4 percent based on current levels of economic growth, core
inflation and wage growth.
This is the difference between the 5 -
year nominal
treasury yield and the 5 -
year TIPs yield and is suppose to reflect
treasury market's forecast for the average annual
inflation rate over the next five
years.
Of the various hot trades within the fixed income universe this
year, the influx of new money to
Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities, or TIPS, has been particularly noticeable.
The figure above indicates that both
inflation compensation and the real yield contributed similarly the changes in the 10 -
Year Treasury Note rate.
The Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a duration of about 2.5
years, mostly in
Treasury inflation protected securities, as well as a roughly 8 % position in precious metals shares.
The Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a duration of just under 2
years, mostly in
Treasury inflation protected securities, and about 20 % of assets in precious metals shares, for which the Market Climate continues to be favorable at present.
As a separate (investor - oriented) test, we relate monthly change in expected annual
inflation to next - month total returns for SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) and iShares Barclays 20 +
Year Treasury Bond (TLT).
In the Strategic Total Return Fund, our present duration of about 3.5
years is solidly in
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which I continue to view as useful investments here.
Given that the Market Climate in bonds continues to be characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a muted duration of about 2
years, mostly in
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.
For those that follow
Treasury bond fluctuations closely, it's been hard not to notice the persistent under performance in
Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) versus nominal coupon bonds over the last several
years.