U.S. Treasury bonds and notes are rallying, pushing down yields.

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Keep an extra close eye on U.S. Treasury bonds and notes futures prices, as they are a good daily gauge of the overall worldwide investor risk appetite, or lack thereof, in the market place.

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Trustees, who must balance the interests of all heirs, often favor conservative, dividend-paying stocks, bonds and Treasury notes.

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The supply of Treasury bills, notes and bonds is already dropping fast.

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Two-year Treasury notes now yield significantly more than 30-year bonds--and that's not just because in a decade or so long-term government bonds may be listed as an endangered species because of the reduction of the publicly held portion of the national debt.

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He said the initial reaction by the bond market is a 25- to 50-basis-point spike in long-dated Treasury yields, like 10-year notes and 30-year bonds.

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In this hypothetical scenario 20% of the portfolio is invested in domestic large-cap growth, 10% in domestic large-cap value, 20% in domestic small-cap value, 10% in international equities, 25% in five-year U.S. Treasury notes and 15% in domestic long-term corporate bonds.

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Treasury bond investors got a taste of this last week when the yield on 10-Year Treasury Notes rose more than a quarter of one percent and prices of those bonds fell precipitously.

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As Stephen Green, senior economist with Standard Chartered Bank in Shanghai, notes, even if China takes some money out of U.S. treasury bonds, it's still going to be holding on to a lot of them.

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