Currently, we are using a 10-year Treasury bond yield of 6% as a discount rate.
The 10-year Treasury bond yield reached 2.36% this morning, up from around 1.87% in past months.
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Real interest rates are negative going out 10 years on the Treasury bond yield curve.
For example, the 10-year Treasury bond yield rose 2 basis points to 2.01% yesterday, indicating falling prices on lower demand.
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The major indexes and the dollar fell, while the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dropped to 3.98% from late-Wednesday's 4.05%.
The benchmark 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield fell to 3.163% last week from 3.23% a week ago, which improved the fundamentals slightly.
The three-month London Interbank Offered Rate was 3.42% on Wednesday, a vast improvement from the 4.82% earlier this month but still high considering the corresponding Treasury bond yield.
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The average 10-year Treasury bond yield as forecasted by 55 economists and regularly published in the Wall Street Journal has been much too high for several years.
Over the same time, the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield jumped more than 150 basis points to nearly 8%, and in turn caused many bond investors to suffer losses of 20% or more in their portfolios.
When gold was at its real all-time high in 1980, the ten-year Treasury-bond yield was 10.8%.
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Demand rose for the haven 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, as its yield declined to settle at 1.698%.
As stocks staged their strong rally, demand fell for the haven 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, pushing its yield up to 1.804%.
Bond prices soared, too, as the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell from 6.54% to 6.43%.
Treasury bond investors got a taste of this last week when the yield on 10-Year Treasury Notes rose more than a quarter of one percent and prices of those bonds fell precipitously.
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While stocks rally, the yield on the U.S. Treasury 30-year bond rose to a 2013 high at 3.286% versus the 2012 high yield at 3.492% set about a year ago.
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Mortgages are bumping along at or near multi-decade lows and a flood of Treasury bond buyers has led to a very appealing yield curve for corporate and government borrowers.
Since mid-June, the yield on the ten-year Treasury bond has risen by around 40%.
For example, he said, when the Fed buys Treasury bonds, it pushes the bond price up and yield down.
Once bad loans are accounted for, their yields average about 7%, more than double the yield on a 30-year Treasury bond.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond fell over the year from 2.29 percent in February of 2012 to 2.11 percent now.
To compensate you for the risks of being a landlord, you should get several points more than the yield on an inflation-protected Treasury bond.
If you compare the yield on conventional bonds with the yield on the index-linked Treasury bond that matures in 2028, the result is an implied inflation rate of 2.4%.
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The yield on America's ten-year Treasury bond rose quickly by eight basis points (a basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point).
If you fear rising interest rates and prefer to keep your bond maturities short, the ratio of muni to Treasury yield is actually highest at the short end (140%-261% for one- to five- year triple-AAA paper).
The higher yield in the underlying assets of funds like EBND are of no help, because EBND is down 1.5% so far in September while the zero yield of the iShares 3-7y US Treasury Bond (IEI) fund is up 0.35% thanks to higher bond prices.
On average they think the yield on 10-year Treasury notes, a benchmark bond, will rise from 3.8% today to 4% to 4.5% by the end of the year.
In government bond trading, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.70 percent from 1.71 percent late Friday as traders shifted money into lower-risk assets.
When you buy a corporate bond, you buy it at a price that gives you, over the life of the bond, an incremental yield over the yield on a Treasury of comparable maturity.
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