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The yield on the 30 year bond is 4% currently, substantially below the 6%-8% expected return projected by most private and public pension funds.
We had initially suggested that the 10-year Treasury Bond yielding 4% to 4.5% would offer investors an attractive hedge against deflation (particularly when held as a barbell with gold).
The Euro Zone 10-year bond yield is 4.626%, and the Japanese 10-year bond yield is 1.985%.
Italian bond yields are presently around 4.4% and Spanish bond yields are near 5.25%.
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And so actually, the same bond that is at 4% has a longer duration than the same bond at 2%.
European government bonds edged lower as their safe-haven allure waned, with yeilds on German 5-day bonds falling to 4.11%, from 4.12%, French 5-year bond yields fell to 4.18%, from 4.20%, and U.K. 5-year gilts fell to 4.75%, from 4.80%.
Thus, the yield on the long bond rocketed past 4% yesterday.
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The market bellwether, the 10-year Treasury bond, was yielding 4.79% in the early afternoon, down from 4.86% late on Thursday.
Bond yields are around 4% above the inflation rate, well above the 2.5% premium that has prevailed in recent decades.
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%.
Since the issue date, two things have happened: The bond price has appreciated 4.8% in Singapore dollars, and U.S. dollars have declined 3.7% to 1.65 Singapore dollars.
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The bond fell as much as 4%, or as low as 96, from its face value at par.
The bond yield had dropped from 4.72 percent to 4.38 percent.
In the third quarter, when the stock fund lost a sickening 13.8 percent, the bond fund gained 5.4 percent, so the portfolio as a whole lost only 4.2 percent.
Italy's 10-year government bond yield soared 0.52 percentage point to 4.88%, while the corresponding yield on Spain's bond also jumped, rising 0.24 percentage point to 5.34%.
Bond and bond fund holdings declined 0.4 percentage points to 18.9%, a three-month low.
However, the EE savings bond loses its advantage around the 4 year mark.
He predicts that the long bond might yield as low as 4.5% if a global recession develops from Japans inaction.
Long-term Treasury bond interest rates are at about 4.4 percent, which reflects the belief that inflation will remain tame for an extended period of time.
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At 4%, British bond yields are already low by past standards.
However, holding to maturity may be difficult, as bond investors discovered in the late 1930s and 1940s, once stocks begin producing 10% to 25% in some years, while the 20-year corporate bond will continue to pay only 4.5% or whatever annually to maturity (and meanwhile may be significantly underwater until maturity due to rising interest rates).
Consider: A long Treasury bond bought today is destined to earn 4.7% a year over its lifetime.
The fifth bond was offered to US citizens at 4.75% interest and was to be redeemed in gold.
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The 10-year government bond yield eased again to close at 4.52%, which compares to a short-rate set by the Bank at 4.75%.
The chart shows that Italian bond yields appear to have bottomed at 4%, and are now edging higher as their prices have declined.
Vanguard's Total Bond Market Fund is up an annualized 4.3% the past five years, yields 4.6% and charges a modest 0.2% annually in fees.
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