Long-term investors with income on their mind have essentially been unaffected by the
Investors of bond mutual funds and other long-term investments were hard pressed to find yields that met their needs before the Fed started to raise short-term rates from historic lows in mid-2004. Now, investors are still faced with the same problem as the Fed's target rate for overnight loans between banks has risen 1 % to 5.25%.
There is not much of a difference in the yield curve depicting income returns on U.S. securities across a range of maturities from two to 30 years. A 10-year commitment, instead of a two-year, will get an investor an extra two basis points.
The Fed raised overnight interest rates by 425 basis points, but the 10-year notes' yield increased by only about one-tenth as much. As the U.S. economy showed signs of waning a bit in the past few weeks, bond yields have declined a little. "The peak in rates for this cycle, and this cycle only, came on Friday, May 12," said Dan Fuss, vice chairman and bond fund manager at Boston-based
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