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Jan 20, 2025
What’s behind the global rise in bond yields?
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In the U.S., it’s partly due to expectations of a stronger, more inflationary future economy with bigger budget deficits.
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Jan 12, 2018
Don’t be concerned about more bond market volatility, according to one expert
Bond prices have been under pressure this week as yields jumped to a 10-month high on a range of factors, including forecasts for better global growth, U.S. tax reform, and reports some nations could scale back U.S. debt purchases. Things have calmed down a bit, and while Allianz Chief Economic Adviser Mohamed El-Erian expects more […]
May 30, 2012
U.S. Treasury yield hits 60 year low
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As investors cope with uncertainty in Europe, the interest on the 10-year Treasury note, the benchmark cost of U.S. debt, hit a record low of 1.6 percent.
Dec 10, 2010
Reader Question: Bonds, yields, and Hershey bars
A Whiteboard watcher wrote in this week, saying she watched the Whiteboard video on the Fed buying bonds (Uncle Ben Goes Shopping), but still wasn…

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