10 Year Treasury Peaks at 15.68 Percent, Trends

The Ten Year Treasury note peaked at an all time high yield on September 25, 1981 at 15.68 percent. The yield has been falling since that peak. For more than 29 years.....

By Bob DeMarco
All American Investor

10 Year Treasury Closes above 3 Percent (Graph)

Ten Year Treasury Daily Yield Chart



The ten year Treasury closed at 3.03 on Friday. It looks to me like interest rates are turning up in spite of the FEDs buying of treasuries and mortgage backed securities. This does not bode well for longer dated Treasury securities in the months ahead. Treasury supply is going to rise dramatically and right now there is little demand for the ten year as evidenced by the shape of the yield curve.

I expect the ten year to test the critical 3.125 area soon. If this area is broken the long term downtrend in ten year interest rates will have come to an end.

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Ten Year Treasury Rates Bottoming (Chart)

Ten year interest rates are in the process of bottoming as evidenced by this chart. There is a continued artificial cap at 3 percent. Once this cap is broken a long term rise in interest rates will be underway.

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Are Ten Year Treasury rates ready to move higher? (Graph)

10 Year Treasury, Interest Rate View, Chart



It appears that the 10 Year Treasury has bottomed and interest rates are poised to move higher. There seems to be resistance at 3.00 percent and 3.125 percent. Once these areas are exceeded, we should be looking for higher interest rates. An increase in the ten year treasury rate is likely to force mortgage rates higher.

This interest rate series should be watched closely in the weeks ahead

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Bob DeMarco is a citizen journalist and twenty year Wall Street veteran. Bob has written more than 500 articles with more than 11,000 links to his work on the Internet. Content from All American Investor has been syndicated on Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Pluck, Blog Critics, and a growing list of newspaper websites. Bob is actively seeking syndication and writing assignments.

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