The Euro Zone 10-year bond yield is 4.626%, and the Japanese 10-year bond yield is 1.985%.
The country had marketed a five-year bond with a yield likely to be about 5% and a 10-year bond at about 6.125%.
The 30-year bond has already lost 11.7%, while the popular 20-year bond etf TLT has lost 16.2% of its value since its peak in early September.
The country had marketed a five-year bond with a yield that was expected to have been around 5%, and a new 10-year bond at around 6.125%.
The yield on the 30-Year bond declined to 2.955% from 3.091% last week, but the all time low yield for the 30-Year bond is 2.349% set on May 26, 2012.
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For example, it might buy platinum and sell silver, or buy a thirty-year U.K. bond and sell a ten-year bond.
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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Thailand is expected to tap the bond markets later this year, and South Korea, which has not issued a sovereign bond in over a year, is also a good candidate.
The 30-year-plus bond bull market is reflected by this long-term chart of T-Bond yields by year-they have declined from 15.2% to 2.91%!
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury bond fell over the year from 2.29 percent in February of 2012 to 2.11 percent now.
' This might involving switching between both interest rates and currencies, trading a 10 year German bond for a 5 year Japanese one at a different interest rate, for example.
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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Japanese bonds broadly finished the day down however, as investors took a step back before a 10-year bond auction on Tuesday and a 30-year auction on Thursday.
In overnight news, Italian bond yields fell to a 2.5-year low at the latest 10-year bond auction as investors embraced the new Italian coalition government.
An example of a foreign bond play is the ten-year Singapore bond issued in July at 99.5 cents on the country's dollar.
The 20-year bond yield has moved 0.39 percentage point and the 30-year yield has moved 0.48 percentage point since the beginning of February.
The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index gained 6.5% a year while individual bond buyers got stuck with a paltry 0.94% a year in gains.
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%.
The spread on the 30 year U.S. Treausry Bond and the 2 year Treasury Note yields were moving closer together, currently at 238 basis points.
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At the time it began to sink, unable to meet margin calls, Long-Term Capital was, for example, long large amounts of the 29-year Treasury bond and short equally large amounts of the 30-year Treasury.
The obvious example is in Greece, where ten-year bond yields reached 7% late last month.
In contrast, the yields on the Italian ten-year bond have just risen slightly (line b).
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As stock prices and the 30-Year bond rate moves higher, stocks become less attractive fundamentally.
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The yield on the 30-year bond declined to 2.747% from 2.906% as U.S. Treasuries outperform stocks.
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Moreover, the 30 year bond yield fell by 14 basis points down to 2.72%.
The yield on the 30-Year bond rose to 2.821% from 2.680% a week ago.
The bid-to-cover ratio on the five-year bond was 1.61, compared with 1.3 at the previous sale.
As we sit here today, Spanish 10-year bond yields are at record levels and nearing 7.50%.
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The French government launched a 50-year bond , the world's longest actively traded one.
Actively managed bond ETFs last year outshone actively managed stock ETFs in attracting new assets.
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