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On the other hand, Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray said: «I feel even stronger about our year - end call of 3, 3.25 [percent] in the 10 - year bond yield at this point.»

Not exact matches

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was lower at around 2.998 percent at 1:07 p.m. ET, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was lower at 3.18 percent.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 2.43 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was also lower at 3.046 percent.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes sat slightly lower at 2.221 while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond slipped to 2.797 percent.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

«What we noticed in January was that stocks and bond yields wanted to run through their year - end targets» to start off 2018, said John Augustine, chief investment officer at Huntington Private Bank.

The central bank said it will purchase Japanese government bonds so that the yield on the 10 - year note will remain at around zero percent.

Following the report, the yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was lower at around 2.959 percent at 3:46 p.m. ET, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was lower at 3.128 percent.

Germany's benchmark 10 - year bond yield was up almost 2 bps at 0.58 percent in early trade, above a one - week low of 0.56 percent hit on Friday.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 2.314 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was also higher at 2.877 percent.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

«Net short positions on 10 - year Treasury notes are at historical highs, implying that rising US bond yields remains among hedge funds» major convictions.»

The yield on the 10 - year bond started the year at just under 3 %.

The yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was at 2.981 percent, after rising as high as 2.999.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury Bond is mostly flat and holding at the 2.70 percent level.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was slightly lower at around 2.944 percent at 12:28 p.m. ET, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond slipped to 3.106 percent.

Rising inflation expectations in recent months have been reflected in U.K. government bond (gilt) prices with the yield on 10 - year gilts touching its highest level since April this year at 1.509 percent in Monday's session.

That certainly was the market reaction this morning, as the 10 - year bond yield spiked on the report, suggesting concerns about future inflation and a more aggressive rate - hike schedule at the Fed.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

Elsewhere, at the single country and asset class fund levels, High Yield Bond Funds recorded their ninth consecutive outflow while Inflation Protected Bond Funds took in fresh money for the 10th time in the 11 weeks, year - to - date.

European government bond and U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields are trading at their highest levels in more than two months and the U.S. 30 - year Treasury bond yield reached a high for the year on Tuesday.

It's hard to believe it's just a few years since countries like Ireland and Spain had to go cap - in - hand to international lenders — at least if you look at their bond yields.

Although they are not as egregiously expensive as 10 - year Swiss government bonds — currently trading at a yield of negative 0.25 % — Canadian bonds are offering a relatively paltry real return, even after adjusting for low inflation.

At that time, the 10 - year Treasury bond had a duration of just 6 years (due to the very high coupon payments and yield - to - maturity available), while the S&P 500 had an extraordinarily low duration of just 16 years.

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

If I round up, the 10 year bond yield is at 3 %.

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Tuesday's bond activity was relatively quiet, with the yield on the benchmark 10 - year note rising to 2.635 percent after a volatile Monday showed the complicated and sometimes contradictory forces at work.

That decline in yields chipped away at the spread between 2 - year Treasuries US2YT = RR, which yield 2.282 percent, and longer - term bonds.

Which explains why yields on two - year government bonds in Canada have surged in recent weeks and are now at about parity with the U.S.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, hit a record of 1.378 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was down at 2.1529 percent.

We have found that stocks and bond yields historically have been positively correlated until the 10 - year yield gets up around 5 %, at which point the correlations break down.

The REIT that was was attractive with a 5 % dividend yield when the 10 - year bond yield was at 2 % is no longer attractive when the 10 - year bond yield is also at 5 % because the 10 - year bond is risk - free.

The evidence is simply that the 10 - year bond yield is now under 2 %, when it was at over 4 % during the invention of the 4 % safe withdraw rate.

In bond markets, yields on 10 year bonds are now at their lowest levels for two decades.

Bond yields have actually been falling since July 1, 1981 when the 10 - year yield was at 15.84 %.

Currently, participants who have not taken a distribution receive interest credits at the rate equal to the 30 - year Treasury bond yield plus 0.5 % but not less than 5 %; the «interest credit» rate is adjusted annually.

The yield on the 10 - year note ended Tuesday at 3.03 % and the 30 - year bond closed at 3.21 %.

If five years from now the yield simply returned to its level of a decade ago (and just in case you think I'm cherry picking, over the past 25 years it has averaged a 7.5 % yield and at the low in 1981 was twice that), bond investors would suffer a meaningful loss of capital.

Contrast that to the S&P 500, which yields just a fraction of a percent less than the bond and we expect will grow earnings at about 6 % per year for the next five years.

In a country where the unemployment rate is at a 20 - year low and industrial output is approaching historical highs, fueling inflation concerns, a 10 - year government bond yield of 1.5 % is totally inappropriate and will naturally spur people to buy real estate.

The yield on the 2 - year bond fell 313 basis points to 21.2 percent at 3:22 p.m. in Athens.

In the bond market, Treasuries were higher, but little - changed, with the 2 - year yield right at 2.5 % and the 10 - year sitting at 2.96 %.

«We remember vividly 35 years ago staring at long - term impeccable bonds trading at 15 % to 17 % yields, thinking; «Why bother trading, hedging and knocking ourselves out?

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.

And during each of those prior yield curve inversions my answer has been the same: Because in two years your high - yielding bond will mature and you'll be renewing at much lower rates.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?