10-year Treasury note

The U.S. Treasury Department has lowered its estimate for federal borrowing in the fourth quarter to $776 billion, down from the previously predicted $852 billion. Investors are breathing a sigh of relief with this cut, given their rising worries over the expanding fiscal deficit. However, even...

Matrixport, a crypto service provider overseeing over $3 billion in assets, is out with its latest call on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) following its decline in August. The company sees potential in purchasing during this downturn but emphasizes the importance of a strict stop loss. On Aug. 15,...

In recent weeks, value stocks have outperformed growth counterparts, proving to be a hedge against the market’s downturn. The Vanguard Value Index Fund ETF (NYSE:VTV) has beaten the Vanguard Growth Index Fund ETF (NYSE:VUG) by 5% during the past month. The momentum shift comes as investors...

Lawrence Summers, who previously served as the U.S. treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, has recently voiced concerns regarding the potential rise in 10-year yields, anticipating them to be significantly higher than what we’ve seen in the last 20 years. The expected increase in...

Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has offered his take on the dramatic decline in U.S. bond yields seen in the past two weeks. What Happened: The decline in 10-year Treasury note rates to as low as 2.7910% on Friday is stunning and reflects recession fears, he said on Monday. The...

The S&P 500 took a hard dive on Friday after the bond market finally gave investors the bearish signal they have been fearing for months. For the first time since 2007, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell below the yield on 3-month Treasury bills briefly on Friday morning. Yield curve...

U.S. investors received a red flag Monday when the yield on five-year Treasury notes dipped below the yield on three-year and two-year Treasury notes for the first time since 2007. This yield curve inversion is often a sign of an imminent economic recession, so here’s a look at what the...

The recent rally in bond prices will be tested by several important economic releases in this pre-holiday trading week. With the market closed Friday, July 4, the Commerce Department is publishing its unemployment data on Thursday. The rate is expected to stay at 6.3 percent with 220,00 new jobs...

With the August recess looming, along with the return of students to college, a bipartisan group of Senators, under the leadership of Majority Whip, Dick Durbin, reached a compromise on student loan rates, according to Politico. Senator Lamar Alexander said, “It would save students in 11...

Democrats in the Senate would like the rate on subsidized Stafford student loans to be set in concrete at 3.4 percent. Republicans favor tying the interest rate to the 10-year Treasury rate. From those respective starting positions, both sides have worked to find compromise. And they almost did....