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Treasuries
14 guides in Finabase Learn
- Bond prices and yields: why prices fall when yields rise The present-value math behind bond prices, worked examples of price, current yield and yield to maturity, pull to par, and what TLT did when the 30-year yield rose.
- Bonds and fixed income: how bonds work, pay and lose value What a bond is, how its cash flows and price are calculated, the main types of fixed income, the five risks to know, and what the 2020–2023 rate shock did to bond ETFs.
- Government debt and deficits: how US federal borrowing works The difference between the deficit and the debt, debt held by the public, debt-to-GDP, the debt ceiling, and what Treasury data show for fiscal 2007–2026.
- The yield curve: shapes, slopes and what each end tells you How the Treasury yield curve is built, why it slopes up, flattens or inverts, what the short and long ends reflect, and how to read it with real 1960–2026 data.
- TIPS and breakeven inflation: how inflation-protected bonds work How TIPS adjust principal for inflation, how breakeven inflation is read from TIPS and Treasury yields, and how breakevens compare with realized CPI.
- Treasury auctions: how the US sells its debt and how to read results How single-price Treasury auctions work, competitive versus noncompetitive bids, the 35% rule, and how to read high yield, bid-to-cover, tails and bidder shares.
- Treasury bill Short-term US government debt maturing in one year or less, sold at a discount to face value and repaid in full at maturity.
- Treasury bills, notes and bonds: the US government’s debt menu The marketable Treasury securities explained: bill, note and bond maturities, how each pays interest, TIPS and floating-rate notes, taxes, and how to compare them.
- Treasury bond Long-term US government debt issued with a 20- or 30-year maturity, paying a fixed coupon every six months and highly sensitive to interest rates.
- Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) US Treasury bonds whose principal rises and falls with the Consumer Price Index, so their interest and final payment keep pace with inflation.
- Treasury note US government debt with a maturity of two to ten years that pays a fixed coupon every six months; the 10-year note is a global benchmark rate.
- Treasury yield The annual return investors earn for lending to the US government at a given maturity, the benchmark that most other interest rates are priced from.
- Yield curve A line plotting Treasury yields across maturities, from months to 30 years, whose slope reflects rate expectations and is read as an economic signal.
- Yield curve inversion: what it signals and its recession record What an inverted yield curve is, why it has preceded US recessions, its full track record since 1966 including the 2022–2024 inversion, and 10y–3m versus 10y–2y.
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