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Term premium: The payoff for investing in longer-term bonds

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jan 8, 2025
Higher yields compensate for the higher risk of investing for 10 or 30 years, when it's hard to predict how that future economy might look.
The term premium is the higher payout investors usually get from longer-term Treasury debt. Right now, investors are paying a lot of attention to it.
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In a sign of optimism, government and corporate bond yields are getting closer

by Justin Ho
Dec 16, 2024
Investors expect a healthy economy and strength in the private sector, which is limiting the rise in corporate bond yields.
In the last few months, corporate bond yields have been rising more slowly than government bond yields, demonstrating confidence in the health of the private sector.
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What the bond market's telling us, and not telling us, about President Biden's withdrawal

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 22, 2024
The market is especially tuned in to whether we will have a divided government after the elections.
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Why are bond prices up right now? And what difference does it make?

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 17, 2024
Rising bond prices mean lower interest rates, indicating that the market is betting on rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
As bond prices rise, bond yields fall. That's good for their owners — as well as consumers, people shopping for mortgages and others.
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Bonds are talking to us after inflation gauge comes in above forecasts

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Apr 10, 2024
What are they saying?
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Treasury bond yields are rising. Here's what that tells us.

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Sep 28, 2021
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note surged to its highest level in three months this morning.
Inflation could be one of the reasons bond buyers are demanding higher yields.
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What the bond market can tell us about the pace of economic recovery

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Feb 23, 2021
Rising bond yields are an optimistic sign, even though the Fed says a real recovery isn't right around the corner.
When bond yields go up quickly, it can spook the stock market. But stocks aren't the whole story.
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Bond yields are lower than during the financial crisis

by Amy Scott
Mar 9, 2020
But that may not be signaling that the economic damage from the coronavirus will be as bad as the Great Recession.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday.
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Investors seek safe havens as markets, bond yields fall

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Mar 4, 2020
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury dipped below 1% Tuesday.
With yields this low, you’d think investors would be running away from bonds. But not everyone is.
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A guided tour of the yield curve

by Justin Ho
Aug 15, 2019
The federal government sells more than a dozen different kinds of bonds. They all have very different purposes.
Traders work before the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange where the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 800 points after talk of an inverted yield curve on August 14, 2019 in New York City.
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