Seeking Alpha

Treasury yields climb after Fed keeps rates unchanged

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, maintaining the federal funds target range at 3.50% to 3.75% as policymakers continue to evaluate the economic impact of ...
Barron's

Bond Yields Are Nearing the Danger Zone

Bond yields rose this month to levels that are setting off alarm bells across financial markets. The 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield hit 5.20% on May 19, the highest level since mid-2007, just before ...
Wall Street Journal

2-Year Yield Jumps to Highest Level in a Year

1552 ET – The inflation fears sparking Friday’s selloff propelled the 2-year Treasury yield to its level since Feb. 2025. The 2-year note settled at 4.160%, while the 10-year Treasury yield rose to ...
The Motley Fool

Bond Yields Are Spiking Higher. Should Stock Investors Worry?

Such sharp, rapid increases in bond yields historically have been trouble for the stock market. Will they be this time? There's lots of research on how bond yields impact stocks. Most of it centers on ...
The Motley Fool

The 2-Year U.S. Treasury Yield Has Now Blown Past the Federal Funds Rate. History Says the Fed Will Do This Next

As of this writing, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury Note was 4.58%. This is slightly higher than it was following "Liberation Day" in April of 2025, after President Donald Trump announced high ...
The New York Times

Is the Bond Market Signaling Danger or Opportunity? Or Both?

Interest rates for long-term Treasury bonds have surged to levels last seen in 2007, before the great financial crisis. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, ...
CNN

30-year US Treasury yield hits highest level in 19 years

A bond rout is deepening as inflation fears take hold of the Treasury market, threatening to raise borrowing costs across the US economy. The 30-year US Treasury yield just hit 5.2%, its highest level ...
MarketWatch

Here’s where Treasury yields will peak and open up a rare opportunity to buy stocks and bonds, says Wall Street veteran

An opportune moment to buy stocks and bonds could be nearing if bond vigilantes have their way. That’s according to Ed Yardeni, president and founder of Yardeni Research, who said if the 10-year ...
Wall Street Journal

Treasury Yields Pare Down Increase Triggered by Hot Inflation

1546 ET – Yields are little changed after retracing early increases triggered by fears inflation could run high for months —and even drive the Fed to hike rates down the road. A 30-year Treasury ...
MarketWatch

There’s a new worry keeping Treasury yields and borrowing costs higher

As if global oil above $100 a barrel wasn’t enough. A new worry facing the $30 trillion Treasury market is that inflation from the artificial-intelligence spending boom could keep the Federal Reserve ...
MoneyWeek

Why are gilt yields rising and what does it mean for your money?

Gilt yields – effectively the level of interest that the UK government pays on its debt – rose to their highest level in almost 30 years on 5 May, amid the fallout of the conflict in Iran. Yields on ...