30-year Treasury bond yield rises to highest level since 2007
The 30-year yield climbed five basis points to 5.31% as investors priced in heavy borrowing, persistent inflation and weaker demand for long bonds.
- On Monday, the yield on 30-year Treasuries rose five basis points to 5.31%, reaching the highest level since 2007 and reflecting investor concerns over government spending and persistent inflation.
- Last week's Treasury auction of $25 billion in 30-year bonds priced at 5.216%, the highest since 2001, driven by corporate borrowing for AI-related investments and nearly $2 trillion in annual federal deficits.
- Nohshad Shah, Citadel Securities' head of EMEA fixed-income sales, said long-term yields reflect the Fed's reluctance to tighten policy. Barclays Plc strategist Anshul Pradhan cautioned against fading the long-end selloff.
- Rising Treasury yields are mirrored globally, with Canadian 30-year securities reaching their highest levels since 2010. Domestically, the gap between 2- and 30-year yields widened to 114 basis points, the most since April.
- Trump administration officials, who early last year predicted fiscal policies would lower interest rates, now confront rising costs rippling through mortgages and loans as the economy faces an oil-price shock from the war on Iran.
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