Bond Rates Are Rising, What’s It Mean?

What are bonds telling us about inflation expectations, post election? In July, the bond market looks to have bottomed, since then, rates have increased .85% and .84% on the 10 and 30 year treasury bonds, respectively. The increase has stirred a reasonable amount of concern of what’s to come. Here are the facts – yields remain below start of the year levels, so, let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves.

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