Sentences with phrase «year treasury yield dropped»

«Following a weak March jobs report, the 10 - year Treasury yield dropped about five basis points,» says Sean Becketti, chief economist at Freddie Mac.

The 10 - year Treasury yield dropped 12 bps while the 30 - year Treasury yield dropped 11 bps to 2.67 %.

«The disappointing release caused an immediate flight to quality resulting in the 10 - year Treasury yield dropping 10 basis points on Friday.

Not exact matches

Rates on government bonds in Germany and Switzerland fell further into negative territory after Brexit, while yields on 10 - year Treasuries dropped below 1.5 % and touched record lows.

On 15 October, the yield on 10 - year US Treasury bonds fell almost 37 basis points (Graph 2, left - hand panel), more than the drop on 15 September 2008 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

After having risen 19 basis points the first week of July, the yield on the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index dropped 20 basis points from the July 3rd 2.72 % to its current 2.52 %, offsetting the initial increase.

The month of May closed on a high note for bonds as the drop in yields saw the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index closed at a yield of 2.47 %.

Major, the London - based head of fixed - income research at HSBC Holdings Plc, stood out for correctly predicting that 10 - year Treasury yields would drop to about 2.1 percent.

If state and local pensions were paying mind to interest rates — as they should, and as corporate and overseas public employee plans are required to do — contributions would have risen significantly as the yield on 20 - year U.S. Treasuries dropped 3.7 percentage points between 2000 and 2016.

Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one - day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8 % and 17.4 %.

The yield - to - worst of the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index dropped 15 bps between Aug. 14 - 21, 2015, to 2.05 % and is now even lower, at 2.03 % as of Aug. 24, 2015.

In August the yield of the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index dropped by 23 basis points from 2.56 % to 2.33 % where it closed out the month.

The 2 - year Treasury dropped 8 bps to yield 1.26 %.

The yield on the two - year Treasury dropped 0.28 percentage points, the most since 2008, signalling investors were driving prices up as they rushed to buy the safe - haven asset (bond yields and prices move inverse to each other.

By comparison, safer 10 year US Treasury bonds have seen yields drop by 40bps and have returned 5.17 % year to date.

After having dropped to a low of 2.13 % on October 15th, the yield of the U.S. 10 - year as measured by the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index has risen by 14 basis points to its current 2.2year as measured by the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index has risen by 14 basis points to its current 2.2Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index has risen by 14 basis points to its current 2.28 %.

Not only has this drop in yields been positive for traditional bond funds such as the iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury ETF (IEF), but preferred stocks, REITs, and even utilities have benefited as well.

There also has been a compression in the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield, which dropped as low as 1.72 percent in September.

«The 30 - year mortgage rate moved in tandem with Treasury yields, dropping three basis points to 3.90 percent.

The 30 - year mortgage rate moved with Treasury yields, dropping seven basis points to 3.96 percent.»

The 30 - year mortgage rate moved in tandem with Treasury yields, dropping 3 basis points to 3.90 percent.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury note dropped 0.1 percent for the month.