30-year Treasury yield tops 5.31%, the highest in 19 years

35 pointsposted 5 hours ago
by root-parent

10 Comments

mono442

4 hours ago

It's rising because the market expects interest rate hikes. Long-term bonds are basically a prediction market for future interest rates.

adjejmxbdjdn

3 hours ago

The 30 year isn’t as affected by interest rate hikes unless the market is signaling it sees long term inflation despite interest rate hikes.

The 30 year should reflect more fundamental issues.

adam_arthur

2 hours ago

30y is keyed to inflation expectations.

If fed hiked to 5% tomorrow, 30y would invert and yield would go down.

It's not as simple as hikes lead to higher 30y yields.

quickthrowman

29 minutes ago

You have that backwards. The market sets the long end of the curve via supply and demand,the Fed controls the short end of the curve (federal funds rate)

If the Fed hiked the (short-term) FFR, long term inflation expectations would go down, along with the yield of long duration Treasury bonds.

Obscurity4340

3 hours ago

Investing in long term bond == expected interest rate hikes?

HSO

3 hours ago

yield rising means selling