Yields on German 10-year notes fell to 1.175%, a record low, touching 1.123% intraday, while Sweden's 10-year bond yielded 1.166%, according to Tradeweb.
The bid-to-cover ratio on the five-year bond was 1.61, compared with 1.3 at the previous sale.
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The international bond fund was down 1% til mid-February and the emerging market bond was off over 2%, while the US government bond fund was behaving like a bank CD, up 0.1%.
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Yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury bond rose to 1.842% as prices fell.
The Euro Zone 10-year bond yield is 4.626%, and the Japanese 10-year bond yield is 1.985%.
The "real, " or post-inflation, yield on the 10-year TIPS bond is just 1.25%, that on the 30-year 1.73%.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond climbed to 1.0% in morning trade, the highest since April 2012.
In a sign of further volatility, the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield hit 1.0%, the highest in nearly a year.
Moreover, the income from the bond was under 1.5%, an historic low.
Yields on 10-year Treasury bond fell to 1.72% as demand rose.
The yield of the benchmark long-term bond hovers around 1.2%.
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If rates remain unchanged in May 2012 the Bank of Oklahoma bond yield will be 1.09%.
The yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond inched up to 1.812% from 2.806% last week.
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Yields elsewhere are also very low, nowhere more so than in Japan, where ten-year government-bond yields are now 1.3%.
The U.K. 10-year bond yielded all of 1.68% in mid-August 2012, well below the rate of consumer price increases.
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By contrast, Japanese government bond yields are barely 1%, despite having a mountain of government debt worth well over 200%.
Even near-zero short-term rates and 10-year government bond yields of about 1% do not deter those who lust for the yen.
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The 10-year bond attracted bids worth 1.65 times the amount on offer, up from a so-called bid-to-cover ratio of 1.32 in January.
But the average annual return of bond investors was just 1.8%.
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As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond rose to settle at 1.993% as prices fell.
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