TenQ · breakdowns

The whole curve, not two points of itBreakdown

What does it cost to borrow for a month, a year, or thirty years?

4.00%5.00%1M3M6M1Y2Y5Y10Y30Y5.34%4.73%

A one-month Treasury bill yields 3.94% and a thirty-year bond 5.34%, with the ten-year at 4.97%. The line between them is the yield curve: it normally slopes up, because money lent for longer carries more risk of being repaid in dollars that buy less.

Source: FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · as at 2026-09

Constant-maturity yields published daily by the US Treasury. The maturities are spaced evenly along the axis rather than to scale: the gap from one month to three is eight weeks and the gap from ten years to thirty is two decades, and drawing that honestly would squeeze the short end - the part the Fed actually controls - into nothing. Every yield curve anywhere is drawn this way, for that reason.

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