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The 10-Year Treasury Yield Over 5%? Some Thoughts
The 10-Year Treasury Yield Over 5%? Some Thoughts
Authored by Wolf Richter via WolfStreet.com,
The 10-year Treasury yield has been zigzagging higher since mid-November when the Fed cut its policy rates again despite accelerating inflation. Since that rate cut, followed up by another rate cut in December, the 10-year yield has risen by 80 basis points, heading, apparently inexorably, for the 5%-line.
On Friday, it closed at 4.78%, within spitting distance of 5%, despite Bessent's three hocus-pocus shows to try to bring it down. Sure, they might have helped keeping a lid...
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