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Moreover, does buying a 10-year U.S. Treasury bond at 3.00% really excite you?
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The two-year British gilt yielded 1.62%, adding four basis points from Friday's trading, while the 10-year bond yielded 3.17%, up from 3.13%.
The current interest rate on a 20 year treasury bond is 3.06%.
The average yield of the U.S. long-term (20-30 year) government bond was 3.46% in September 1929 and declined steadily to 2.01% in December 1940.
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If you wanted to redeem savings bond after 3 years, the 0.6% yield would produce a return higher than if you had bought a 3 year Treasury Note.
Uncertainty over the timeline for a resolution in Europe and falling levels in the stock market have also helped drive investors into safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries, which has left the 10-year bond today yielding 2.11% and the 30-year long-term bond yielding 3.13%.
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In comparison with the past couple of hundred years, when bond yields were 3-6%, present bond yields look cheap.
There is no consensus in Washington for a QE-3 bond buying program and it might not be productive, anyway.
Does anyone really believe a 10-year Treasury should yield little more than 1.5% or a 30-year government bond just under 3%?
Stocks lost 2.2% of their value and despite the inconclusive state of our national debt and inability to create enough new jobs, investors reflected their confidence in the soundness of the U.S. government by driving down the 10 year bond yield from 3.06% to 2.95%.
Declining rates pushed up the value of bond investments, delivering an average 9.3% return for Treasury bond mutual funds.
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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%.
Now, the yield on such a bond is only around 3.75 percent, down about a third.
Last spring, the interest rate on a ten year government bond was more than 3%.
Bond and bond fund allocations fell 3.6 percentage points to 19.0% last month.
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Why he thought a discounted 3% bond was better value than a 5% bond sold at par is unclear.
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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 weekly chart of the iShares Barclays 1-3 Treasury Bond Fund ( SHY) has two viable interpretations, in my opinion.
Interest rates could continue to weaken in this deflationary atmosphere with the 30 year bond going below a 3% yield, Ross thinks.
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 last time I checked 10-year bond yields were under 3.5 percent.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note rose to 2.67%, from 2.65% Friday, while the 30-year bond yield rose to 3.38%, from 3.32%.
The lousy job figures have cleaned the clocks of the equity market and been a boon to the bond market, driving rates down below 3% on the 10 year note and driving up bond prices.
The emerging markets bond, with its risk premium, is up 3.39% and the US Treasury bond fund is up 0.54%.
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Harrisburg, the state capital of Pennsylvania, was scheduled to default on a 3.3 million dollar bond payment yesterday.
However, on Monday, Italy's 10-year bond yield jumped 0.3 percentage points to 4.8%.
One of the most direct examples is an exchange-traded fund, the iShares Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (amex: SHY).
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