So a two-year bank CD or a Treasury inflation-protected security yielding around 2%, and short-term investment-grade bond funds at 2% plus, aren't the end of the world.

因此收益率在2%的两年期银行定存单或者通货膨胀保值型国债，以及收益率在2%以上的短期投资级债券基金都属于不错的选择。

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Two years after the Fed slashed rates almost to zero, ten-year Treasury-bond yields are 2-3%, around the same level as Japanese bonds reached two years after Japan's short-term rates fell to 0.5%.

在美联储把利率降低到几乎0的两年后，十年期国债收益率是2 - 3%，这和日本在短期利率降至0.5%的两年之后的国债收益率近似。

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The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.

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Short term bond yields increased slightly to 3.64% for the benchmark 10-year Treasury, while the 30-year bond yields fell to 4.68%.

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