A 10 -
year government bond today sports a yield to maturity of around 1 %.
Not exact matches
Future generations should help pay for them and that's why
governments today should be issuing 10, 30, or even 50
year bonds at currently ridiculously low interest rates to finance needed infrastructure.
Today, however, EE
Government Savings
Bonds only pay 3.5 % if you hold them for 20
years.
Michael Hasenstab: As we look toward the end of the
year, we have to question whether the type of US
government bond yields we have
today make sense given rising inflation and the resiliency we've seen in the US economy.
``... if those [people] are holders of
government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they had better cash some of them in, especially at
today's 4.0 percent yield for 10 -
year Treasurys.»
But while you could get 5 % on
bonds a decade ago, the current yield on 10 -
year Government of Canada
bonds is about half that
today.
What's more, GICs pay higher yields than
government bonds:
today you can build a five -
year ladder with an average yield over 2 %, with no credit risk and no chance of a capital loss.
As I write
today's tip, the ten
year government Treasury
bond sits at 2.69 %.
Today 10 -
year Government of Canada
bonds are yielding about 2 % — you would be lucky to keep up with inflation, let alone earn a healthy income.
Let's say it's been five
years since Corp A issued its
bond with a 5 % interest rate, and since then the general level of interest rates has risen so that,
today, I could buy a comparable $ 1,000 U.S.
Government bond that pays 4.9 % interest.
In global
government bond markets
today, investors seem to be standing atop tectonic plates, which are moving slowly yet predictably, defying simple rules of thumb about risk - free investing, and rendering the last 40
years of historical data a very poor guide for making decisions about the future.
The Claymore 1 - 10
Year Laddered
Government Bond ETF (TSX: CLG) and the Claymore 1 - 10
Year Laddered Corporate
Bond ETF (TSX: CBH) started trading on the TSX
today.
U.S.
government 10 -
year bonds today are paying a measly 2.47 % interest every
year.
Yields on Japanese
government bonds due in five
years today rose the most since 1999 after consumer prices surged 1.2 percent in March from a
year earlier.
You may be satisfied
today with a 4.5 - per - cent ROI if 10 -
year government bonds are less than two per cent.
That amount will generate at least $ 225,000 a
year in risk - free income based on
today's 10 -
year government bond yield.»