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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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Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times,
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D. John Sauer, then the U.S. solicitor general nominee, testifies during his confirmation hearing in Washington on Feb. 26, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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Chinese University Accused Of Sending Students To Factory Jobs Under Mandatory Labor Program
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Authored by Michael Zhuang via The Epoch Times,
A Chinese university has come under scrutiny after an alleged internal safety agreement surfaced online alongside claims from a self-identified graduate that students were required to work on farms and in food-processing factories as part of a mandatory academic program while being denied basic workplace protections.
A seeder working a cotton field in Tumushuke, Xinjiang region, China, in an aerial photo taken on March 24, 2021. STR/CNS/AFP via Getty Images
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