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Will Obama Administration Push Up Long-Term Interest Rates?
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
President-Elect Obama has outlined an ambitious economic stimulus program involving government spending on infrastructure and government hiring. This multi-billion dollar spending program will be on top of the billions to still be spent with the ongoing government bailout of financial companies. While a majority of economists have approved the plan as prudent, a number have [...]
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Municipal Bond Yields (non-taxable) vs Treasury Yields (taxable)
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
A strong global surge into United States Treasuries has pushed yields on T-Bills, T-Notes, and T-Bonds lower and lower with a bottom not yet in sight. The same buying surge has not been witnessed in the Municipal Bond market and as shown below yields are higher at comparable terms than Treasuries.Municipal Bond Averages vs U.S. [...]
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U.S. Treasury Yields Fall Again
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
U.S. Treasury yields are lower this week across the board from 3-month T-Bills to 10-year T-Bonds. Yields below 3% are now the rule (except for a bump in the yield curve at 6-months where the yield jumps over 3.10%) for all the U.S. Treasuries with maturities 5 years and less.
The Federal Reserve meets next week [...]
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U.S. Treasury Yields and the One Year Term
By MoneyRates team | Money-Rates Columnist
The yield on the 10-year Treasury has dropped 10 points since last week when the yield was threatening 5.00%. Looking at the yield curve from 90 days to 30 years we see an increase of only 102 basis points from 3.78% to 4.80% marking a less dramatic inflation bias than expected by many market watchers. [...]
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