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The benchmark 10-year Treasury rate rose by as much as 18 basis points the day after the election, pushing the overall rate on the bond to 4.47 percent. The price of bonds and their yield move ...
The Fed cut its federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans — by 0.25 percentage points, lowered the rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, down from its ...
The United States Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 is a weekly publication (with daily updates) of the Federal Reserve System of selected market interest rates. [1] Many residential mortgage loans are indexed to the one-year treasury rate published in the H.15 release. [citation needed]
The yield on 10-year Treasury notes was up 8.8 basis points to 1.297%, after briefly crossing above 1.3% earlier in trading. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was up 7.4 basis points to 1.943%.
Historically, the 20-year Treasury bond yield has averaged approximately two percentage points above that of three-month Treasury bills. In situations when this gap increases (e.g. 20-year Treasury yield rises much higher than the three-month Treasury yield), the economy is expected to improve quickly in the future.
Treasury notes (T-notes) have maturities of 2, 3, 5, 7, or 10 years, have a coupon payment every six months, and are sold in increments of $100. T-note prices are quoted on the secondary market as a percentage of the par value in thirty-seconds of a dollar. Ordinary Treasury notes pay a fixed interest rate that is set at auction.
The Treasury market, though, hasn’t been paying attention. ... The 5-year breakeven rate, for instance, has risen 8 basis points since the Fed meeting and is up 20 basis points since Sept. 11.
The indexes were blended in 1979 to form the Government/Credit Index. In 1986, mortgage backed securities were also added to the index, which was renamed the US Aggregate Index and backfilled with historical data to 1976. [3] It was later renamed the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index. [4]