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The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is a market capitalization -weighted index, meaning the securities in the index are weighted according to the market size of each bond type. Most U.S. traded investment grade bonds are represented. Municipal bonds, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are excluded, due to tax treatment issues.
Ticker symbols are often reused on different exchanges, so in many cases the same ticker symbol references different securities. RIC codes use "artificial" tickers for common indexes and money market instruments. For instance, the US 10-year money market bond is assigned the ticker US10YT, the "T" at the end
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 10-year Treasury yield is the yield paid to buyers of 10-year Treasury Notes It is Wall Street’s most-followed benchmark for interest rates. Inflation, monetary policy, and investor ...
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield recently stood at around 3.75%, down from a high of just above 5% last October. Issuers have also been encouraged by the growing inflows in bond ETFs. Average ...
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to an intraday peak of 3.77% on Thursday, higher than before the Fed cut the federal funds rate by 50 basis points on Wednesday. The rate on the 10-year bond closed ...
Over the past two decades, the 10-year Treasury yield has stayed mostly below 5 percent. It hit a record low of around 0.5 percent in August 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic when the Federal ...
The target rate remained at 5.25% for over a year, until the Federal Reserve began lowering rates in September 2007. The last cycle of easing monetary policy through the rate was conducted from September 2007 to December 2008 as the target rate fell from 5.25% to a range of 0.00–0.25%.