Sentences with phrase «year treasury yield just»

Today, the 10 Year Treasury yields just 1.68 %.

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While we would be inclined to increase the duration of the Strategic Total Return Fund modestly if the 10 - year Treasury yield was to push beyond 4 % or so, we are comfortable with our current duration of just under 4 years.

It was n`t just the tech sector that investors were watching, but also the yield on the 10 - year treasury, which is within striking distance of 3 percent.

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.

Today, those bonds yield just over 3 %; the 10 - year Treasury currently generates about 2.3 % (source: Bloomberg, as of 10/19/2017).

Quite often, it is just the price action alone — like a 100 + basis point spike in 10 - year Treasury note yields.

You had CD's that had better yields than the current 5 - year Treasury rate, so it makes sense, but I'm just curious.

Very quickly those gains reversed and as the trading day began to unfold, we saw the 10 - year Treasury note yield rise above 2 %, approximately 20 basis points wider than where it was trading just a few days ago.1

-LRB-...) Those who want the security of holding government paper have to lock up their money for just a year to beat the dividend yield on stocks, with the 1 - year Treasury bill yielding 2 %.

As to Treasury yields, there was a modicum of relief as the 10 - year note stayed just at 3.00 % late into the afternoon.

Just a 0.2 percentage point increase in Treasury yields could wipe out a whole year's worth of yield income.

Yields on both have increased this year, with the corporate bond yield breaking above 3 % and Treasury yield rising to just shy of 2.5 %.

With its leaning toward government - backed issues, BND's yield of 4.4 % is just slightly greater than the 3.6 % being paid by the iShares Lehman 7 - 10 Year Treasury Index (NYSE: IEF).

The current US Treasury yield curve in between the 5 - year and 10 - year maturities is today just 15 bps.

The spread between the yields on the 2 - year Treasury note and the 10 - year Treasury note narrowed by 70 basis points from 125 points at the start of 2017 to just 55 points at the end of 2017.

As of Nov. 23, however, the 10 - year Treasury yield was just 2.34 percent and the yield curve had «flattened,» meaning short - term yields had risen in comparison to long - term yields.

Same goes for 10 - year U.S. treasuries, currently yielding just close to 2.4 per cent after the significant jump in recent months.

At this writing the 30 year US treasury bond yields just 3.137 % — less than half of the tax free municipal bond!

Overall, 10 - year Treasury returns beat the starting yield by an average of just two - tenths of a percent.

If you just invest in a risk - free 30 Year Treasury yielding approximately 3 %, that thousand dollars becomes more than $ 2,400 and that's only a small amount with a conservatively low return.

The 10 - year Treasury yield, which had reached a new low just above 1.6 % in late April had started to creep upward in early May and on May 22 it shot above 2 %.

Late Monday afternoon, the 10 - year Treasury note traded at a yield of 2.34 %, down from 2.56 % on Friday and 3 % just two weeks ago, a huge move.

On Monday, April 23, the markets continued their slide as the ten - year Treasury yield settled just below 3.0 %, in spite of the preliminary readings of the April manufacturing and services PMIs both showing increases and March existing home sales rising 1.1 %, beating analyst expectations.

Last year, for example, the yield on the 10 - year Treasury shot up to 3 % from 1.66 %, an 84 % increase in just a few months.

Today, those bonds yield just over 3 %; the 10 - year Treasury currently generates about 2.3 % (source: Bloomberg, as of 10/19/2017).

The ten year US Treasury yield lofted from 1.6 % to just over 3 % during the May to August period.

With the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note sitting just under 3.0 %, investors are waiting to see what happens.

As of May 31, 2017, the yield of the S&P Current 2 - Year Canada Sovereign Bond Index was just 0.7 %, compared with the U.S. two - year Treasury Bond yield of 1.28 %, as the U.S. Fed contemplated an additional rate hike as soon as June 2Year Canada Sovereign Bond Index was just 0.7 %, compared with the U.S. two - year Treasury Bond yield of 1.28 %, as the U.S. Fed contemplated an additional rate hike as soon as June 2year Treasury Bond yield of 1.28 %, as the U.S. Fed contemplated an additional rate hike as soon as June 2017.

In fact, the top 25 large - cap dividend ETFs by assets under management yield just 2.77 % on average — little better than the 2.32 % yield on 10 - year Treasuries right now.

One may be forgiven for blaming the Federal Reserve; given the long - lasting expansion, a 10 - year Treasury note yielding just little above 2 % does «feel» expensive.

A 10 - year US Treasury note yielding just little above 2 % does feel expensive.

The yield on 10 - year U.S. treasury notes is just 1.6 %, while the yield on the total bond market index is 2.03 %: «only slightly above the stock yield of 2.0 %.»

We see a similar willingness to pay excessively high valuations for «safe», income producing assets in the behavior of the 10 - year treasury yield with the yield falling from 5 % in 2007 to 3 % in 2013 to just 1.5 % today.

While we expect mortgage rates to fall into line with Treasury yields shortly, this just may be a year full of surprises.»

The yield on 10 - year Treasury bonds was roughly 2.3 percent early this week, up from about 1.75 percent just before the election.

«The 10 - year Treasury yield fell just one basis point, while the 30 - year mortgage rate remained unchanged at 3.83 percent.»

The 10 - year Treasury yield fell just 1 basis point, while the 30 - year mortgage rate remained unchanged at 3.83 percent.»