Wednesday, January 9, 2013

US Government 10yr Bond Yield Pops 10% On Fiscal Cliff Deal

But quickly cools, meaning the bond market's opinion was Meh.

By way of contrast, yields plunged roughly 33% between July and September 2011 from the 3s to the 2s in the wake of the debt-ceiling mini-compromise.

The five year yield nadir was about 1.38 in late July 2012. Yields today are almost 35% higher than that, but are still 50% off what they were in early January 2008 near 4.

Interactive chart here.