{"id":299,"date":"2019-06-20T09:53:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:53:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:53:30","slug":"wsj-a-10-year-treasury-yield-below-2-is-something-almost-nobody-saw-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"[WSJ] A 10-Year Treasury Yield Below 2% Is Something Almost Nobody Saw Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>June 20, 2019 &#8211; The Wall Street Journal reported today that investors and other experts in the financial industry were caught blindsided by the plummeting 10-year Treasury yield, which went below 2% yesterday.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As recently as January, the Journal surveyed 69 economists and the the average forecast was about 3%. The most recent survey of economists published this month forecast 10-year yields at 2.34% by end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Depressed yields in Europe, trade tensions and slowing economic growth in the U.S. and globally are the most often cited reasons why long-term yields are at multi-year lows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After hiking rates four times in 2018, the U.S. Federal Reserve has signaled that it would consider cutting rates this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-10-year-treasury-yield-below-2-is-something-almost-nobody-saw-coming-11561023865?\" target=\"_blank\">Read<\/a> the WSJ report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact Jumanne Johnson at JJ@BuyMuni.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 20, 2019 &#8211; The Wall Street Journal reported today that investors and other experts in the financial industry were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-full-width-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34,8,13,39],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-reserve","category-global-economy","category-investing","category-markets","category-trade","tag-wsj","wpcat-38-id","wpcat-34-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-39-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190620-Mnuchin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buymuni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}