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TREASURIES: Exit The Safe Haven. ?The 10-year Treasury bond paid a 3.83% yield Friday afternoon, u?

By Glenn Reynolds

TREASURIES: Exit The Safe Haven. “The 10-year Treasury bond paid a 3.83% yield Friday afternoon, up from 3.6% in the last week of May and a 52-week low of 2.07%. One worry is that higher yields on benchmark government bonds will translate into steeper borrowing costs for home buyers and businesses, besides making the U.S. government?s deficit spending more expensive.”

Related: Interest rates soar on jobs data, putting housing at risk. “The Treasury bond market is in cardiac arrest today over the May employment report: Yields are soaring, dealing another blow to investors who?ve been hiding out in government bonds — and threatening another big jump in mortgage rates.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 05, 2009 (boomark / email).