{"id":13281,"date":"2009-06-11T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_us_long_term_interest_rates_hit_high\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T09:00:49","slug":"ft_us_long_term_interest_rates_hit_high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13281","title":{"rendered":"FT: US long-term interest rates hit high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US long-term interest rates rose to the highest level of the year on Wednesday, threatening the \u201cgreen shoots\u201d\u009d of recovery, after the latest sale of 10-year government debt met with a tepid response from inflation-wary investors.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about the growth of government borrowing forced the US Treasury to give investors in an auction of $19bn in 10-year notes a yield of 3.99 per cent \u201d\u201c 4 basis points higher than the yield available before the auction. That constituted the biggest yield markup since a 10-year auction in May 2003, said Morgan Stanley. Yields on the 10-year note, the benchmark rate for US mortgages, hit a high of 4 per cent during the day, up from 3.6 per cent a week ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/68ca2d04-55f2-11de-ab7e-00144feabdc0.html\">Read it carefully and read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US long-term interest rates rose to the highest level of the year on Wednesday, threatening the \u201cgreen shoots\u201d\u009d of recovery, after the latest sale of 10-year government debt met with a tepid response from inflation-wary investors. Concerns about the growth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13281\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,595,149,596,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-credit-markets","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}