U.S. Treasury Yields Fall Again

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 [...]

U.S. Treasury Yield Curve

Investors in United States Treasuries have to extend maturities out at least 5 years to earn a 4.00% yield and are only rewarded with another 50 basis points by extending out 30 years. Analysts believe a steepening of the yield curve is on track for 2008 with inflatin expected to pick up.
Investors may find the [...]

U.S. Treasury Yields and the One Year Term

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. [...]

10-year Treasury Yield and Odds of Recession

The chart of the 10-year U.S. Treasury Bond below shows that the yield has not broken below 4.40% for over one year.

Market watchers now believe that the 4.40% could be broken as the economy is showing inflation under control and longer term interest rates seem less likely to increase significantly. The ongoing flight-to-quality to [...]

Short Term U.S. Treasury Yields Fall Crazily

In only five days the yield on the 1-month Treasury Bill has fallen from 4.18% to 2.47% as an enormous amount of money has poured into the very shortest U.S. Treasury terms available.
8/1/2007
1-month T-Bill - 5.05% yield3-month T-Bill - 4.89% yield6-month T-Bill - 4.96% yield
8/20/2007
1-month T-Bill - 2.47% yield3-month T-Bill - 3.12% yield6-month T-Bill - [...]

Treasury Yield Curve Flattening Again

A rally in mid-term and longer-term U.S. Treasuries in July has dropped yields between 10 and 20 basis points on maturities from 2 years to 30 years.
Current US Treasury Yields vs Yields from last month:
3 Month 4.85% vs 4.63% 6 Month 4.84% vs 4.77% 2 Year 4.73% vs 4.87% 3 Year 4.72% vs 4.91% 5 [...]