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The interest rates investors accept to hold US government debt, quoted by maturity and used as the reference for most dollar borrowing costs.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan says a 226-year average of about 5% puts the 10-year Treasury yield of 5.36% in perspective. He pairs it with strong consumer spending, and his economists forecast three more Fed rate increases.
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Chip stocks fell after Broadcom's Hock Tan likened some AI flows to casino gambling and CXMT reportedly advanced DRAM, ending the Dow's streak at three. Of the two triggers, the CXMT report is the one that bears on what memory makers can charge.
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Economists polled by the Wall Street Journal expect the 10-year Treasury yield to ease only to 5.1% by year-end and 4.8% a year later, Semafor reported. Growth and inflation forecasts barely moved, so the case for high yields rests on the supply of capital.
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Kazakhstan's central bank plans to cut gold from 78% to 75% of reserves by year-end, about 15 tons on a reported 386. The bank cites yields and concentration, and one seller of that size is thin evidence that official demand for gold is fading.
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US diesel sits 71% above a year ago against 56% for crude, a split Energy Aspects' Amrita Sen links to inflation and Treasury yields. A fuel clause pegged to crude has recovered only about four-fifths of the rise in what truckers and farmers pay.
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Five bond ETFs took in $24.89 billion in the month to Oct. 8, level with the $24.88 billion that went into two S&P 500 funds, according to Koscom data. Most of the bond money went to aggregate and municipal funds that lost between 2% and 3.3%, so investors are buying duration alongside stocks priced at 19 times forward earnings.
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Pimco's Dan Ivascyn calls a 6% 10-year Treasury yield feasible after the benchmark touched a 24-year high of 5.34%. Hedging by holders of AI and mortgage bonds adds to the selling, so well-bid auctions do little for borrowers.
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CoinShares says Treasury yields at two-decade highs, 5.3% on the 10-year and 5.7% on the 30-year, could matter more for bitcoin than Fed rate decisions. The firm concedes its fund-flow data has not yet shown that debt fear is what drew money into bitcoin products.
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Broadcom seeks $50 billion in financing and SpaceX $40 billion in bonds and loans to buy AI chips, the Wall Street Journal and others reported. The borrowing reaches a bond market where 10-year Treasury yields sit within a few basis points of a 24-year high.
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Bitcoin traded near $82,800, roughly 4% below Tuesday's high, as the 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.71% after Fed minutes pointed to another hike. Futures bets shrank at least as fast as prices, the pattern of traders cutting leverage, while an Ethereum Foundation researcher's 'bunker mode' warning split the industry over wallet security.
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Bitcoin fell below $83,000 as Brent crude reached $102 a barrel and US Treasury yields climbed to their highest since 2002. Oil set the timing, but the fall landed on a futures market that had shed $2.8 billion of open interest since September 22, CryptoQuant data show.
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Nvidia closed at a record $238.90 on October 5, about 3.8% short of becoming the first company valued at $6 trillion. Getting there depends more on third-quarter revenue and the 10-year Treasury yield, now its highest since 2002, than on a bigger buyback.
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Yields on 1- to 7-year Treasuries moved as much as 26 basis points in four days, and the short end is now priced for hikes. That changes the base case for anyone financing 2026.
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Ten-year Treasury yields hit 5.31% on Oct. 5, the highest in the daily series CryptoSlate examined back to 2017, though its data find little daily link to bitcoin. The yield still measures what a holder gives up each year by owning an asset that pays no interest.
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Treasury 10-year yields hit a 24-year high of 5.349% on Oct. 5, the day a U.S. services survey showed the highest prices reading since July 2022. French and Spanish strain looks secondary, since Spanish yields fell and French ones held that session.
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Goldman Sachs economists say Treasury yields at a near-quarter-century high could cut US GDP growth by 0.2 percentage points next year. Several maturities set fresh multi-decade highs again on Monday, so the forecast is chasing a rate that is still moving.
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Traders cut the odds of a Fed hike this month to 23% from 71% in a week, and the 10-year Treasury yield still climbed to its highest since 2002. Stocks rallied on the softer Fed outlook, so AI earnings now have to justify equity prices against a risk-free rate above 5.3%.
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Bond ETFs and funds took in $26.4 billion in the five days through Oct. 1, a week when the 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.35%, its highest since April 2002. Vanguard's Joyce Huang says most of the recent buying sits at the short end, where savers get yield with little exposure to further rate rises.
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Tech heavyweights including Nvidia, Meta and Microsoft lifted the Nasdaq about 1% to a record on Monday as the 10-year Treasury yield rose to 5.31%. The Dow's much smaller gain puts the rally in a few large stocks, which held up while long-term yields rose even as the odds of a Fed hike fell.
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Bitcoin rose to just shy of $86,950 on Monday, within about $500 of its eight-month high, then fell below $86,000, its second stalled rally in a week. Soft U.S. jobs data drove the move, and clearing the high looks to need both lower Treasury yields and leveraged buyers willing to keep paying to wait.
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