Gilts
Higher Fixed Income Yields
November 10, 2010
The 10-year British gilt yield jumped another 11 basis points. Comparable German bund and Japanese JGB yields are up six and two basis points, and so are Treasury future yields. Irish 10-year yields advanced for a twelfth session in a row, bringing their premium versus bunds to nearly 580 basis points. Irish yields were 171 […] More
Bond Yields in the Noughties Compared to the Nineties
December 21, 2009
As the current decade winds down, the ten-year minus two-year yield curve has lengthened to a record width and is up 136 basis points since the end of 2008. Nonetheless, the ten-year yield of 3.67% remains 78 basis points below its decade average of 4.45%. Likewise, that average for the present decade of the noughties […] More
