Asian banks in Singapore and China pay about the same as a U.S. Treasury bond.
Demand rose for the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, pushing yields down to 1.936%.
Currently, we are using a 10-year Treasury bond yield of 6% as a discount rate.
Aside from the Treasury bond market, fixed-income investors are scared out of their skulls.
Demand for the haven 10-year U.S. Treasury bond fell, pushing yields up to 1.770%.
The 10-year Treasury bond yield reached 2.36% this morning, up from around 1.87% in past months.
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This argument would make perfect sense if Treasury bond rates were set by the market.
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You can buy a ten-year Treasury today, a ten-year Treasury bond from the US Government.
The bull can be traced back to 1981, when Treasury bond yields peaked at above 15%.
The iShares Lehman 5-7Yr Treasury Bond (IEI) ETF is up around 1% this week.
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The weaker-than-expected housing data helped push some investors towards the relative safety of Treasury bond.
Real interest rates are negative going out 10 years on the Treasury bond yield curve.
The 10-year Treasury bond, the market bellwether, yielded 3.92%, up from 3.89% late Tuesday.
Yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury bond rose to 1.842% as prices fell.
Treasury bond yields at the same time are down because people are fleeing into them.
The yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond inched up to 1.812% from 2.806% last week.
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The yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond declined to 2.868% from 2.934% last week.
Since mid-June, the yield on the ten-year Treasury bond has risen by around 40%.
The yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond declined to 2.825% from 2.955% last week.
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Consider: A long Treasury bond bought today is destined to earn 4.7% a year over its lifetime.
It is because of this, I have gone long the iShares 20 Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT).
Demand rose for the haven 10-year U.S. Treasury bond, as its yield declined to settle at 1.698%.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to settle at 1.993% as prices fell.
Bond prices soared, too, as the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond fell from 6.54% to 6.43%.
Result: In 67% of the surveys consensus estimates for the 30-year Treasury bond were in the wrong direction.
The yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 2.833% up from my semiannual pivot at 2.730%.
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Stopping or massively reducing U.S. Treasury bond purchases will certainly bring losses to China to a certain degree.
At current yields, the five and 10 year Treasury bond are returning negative yields to investors after inflation.
The result was treasury bond prices were inflated and yields declined, creating the lowest treasury yields in history.
ESpeed by itself is the second-largest broker of Treasury bond trades (after BrokerTec).
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