{"id":20259,"date":"2012-08-17T10:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2016-09-20T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:25:01","slug":"a-quick-look-at-the-10-year-treasury-yield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/17\/a-quick-look-at-the-10-year-treasury-yield\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Look at the 10-Year Treasury Yield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury bond has made an impressive move over the past few weeks. After dropping 40% from the high in March it has risen 28% since the low in July. Perhaps &#8220;Operation Twist&#8221; is what is being expected from Bernanke in \u00a0 Jackson Hole, on August 31.<\/p>\n<p>Or, it is possible that the ECB&#8217;s commentary recently has put a floor on the need for safety. Of course there is the discussion that the U.S. economy looks much better than it did just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a chart, marked up with a regression analysis and Fibonacci <!--more-->levels. What does it show? Not much unless you really believe that these are viable indicators for yields, but it is interesting anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Central Banks lead the markets these days and where they want the yields to go, they will go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10yr_1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-20260 aligncenter\" title=\"10yr_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/10yr_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The yield on the 10-Year U.S. Treasury bond has made an impressive move over the past few weeks. After dropping 40% from the high in March it has risen 28% since the low in July. Perhaps &#8220;Operation Twist&#8221; is what is being expected from Bernanke in \u00a0 Jackson Hole, on August 31. Or, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[293,483],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-fixed-income","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}