Bond Yield Rates Slipping

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By: Colin Robertson Chicago

2. Bond Yield Rates Slipping
A Chicago-area banking executive with more than two decades of experience at his current firm,
Colin Robertson serves as the managing director of fixed income investments for Northern Trust
Asset Management. As part of his work in Chicago, Colin Robertson stays abreast of current
investing trends, including the bond market.

3. Bond Yield Rates Slipping
As of June 2019, 10-year yields on Treasury bonds dipped to their lowest point in two years at
slightly less than 2.13 percent. The move comes on the heels of potential tariffs on Mexican
products that the Trump administration has threatened to impose in response to undocumented
immigration.

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Continuing strained relations with China and its trade market with back-and-forth tariffs is also said
to have an impact on 10-year yields. Experts have adjusted their forecasts on 10-year yields down
to 1.75 percent in some cases.

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Thirty-year yield bonds have not been immune and have dipped to 2.6 percent, which is the lowest
they have been since November 2016. Growth in domestic manufacturing, however, could have a
stabilizing effect on these rates, depending on the way figures look throughout the second and
third quarters.