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Treasury yields are continuing to climb, and at a particularly bad time as higher rates worsen the impact of the nearly $40 trillion government debt load.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Longer-dated debt has been hit particularly hard by the recent leg up, pushing the 30-year bond yield close to its highest level since the early part of the 21st century. Other maturities also have risen, owing to a number of factors conspiring to raise financing costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fixed income strategists ascribe the run that began in June to a number of variables: intensified concerns over a budget deficit<\/a> that appears set to eclipse its 2025 level; inflation in an ominous holding pattern above the Federal Reserve\u2019s 2% target<\/a> despite moderating data over the past two months; and a rash of corporate debt issuance competing with Treasurys for investors\u2019 favor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadly, the move can also be attributed to a rising term premium, or the extra yield investors demand to hold U.S. debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together, the various factors have combined to create a difficult environment for fixed income, though one that has yet to materially hit the stock market. Yields turned lower<\/a> Tuesday, easing a trend that has seen the 30-year yield jump more than 40 basis points, or 0.4 percentage point, since the late June low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are not new forces, and the rise in long-term yields has been gradual rather than sudden,\u201d Anshul Pradhan, head of U.S. rates research at Barclays Capital, said in a Monday client note. \u201cWhat is notable today is not the existence of these pressures, but that they appear strong enough to overwhelm individual soft-data releases. Three independent releases argued for lower yields this month; long end yields moved higher anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiple causes<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, recent inflation data has been at least moving in the right direction: Both consumer<\/a> and producer prices<\/a> were little changed in July, and the core measure that excludes food and energy stood at 2.5% \u2014 essentially where it was before the war against Iran began in late February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the recent moves appear to be about more than inflation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, there\u2019s the debt and deficit situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. saw a budget shortfall of $432.3 billion in July<\/a>, the widest single-month gain since March 2021 and likely locking in a $2 trillion deficit for the full year ending Sept. 30. Total government debt is a hair below $40 trillion, with the public portion of that soon to hit 100% of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Debt financing costs have totaled $1.12 trillion through July and are expected to hit $1.37 trillion for the full fiscal year, or about $84 billion more than in 2025. On net, the government has spent more on debt financing this year than anything else outside of Social Security and Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Market veteran Ed Yardeni coined the term \u201cbond vigilantes\u201d in the early 1980s to describe fixed income investors who go on strike to protest poor fiscal conditions. In a CNBC interview, the head of Yardeni Associates, though generally constructive on both the debt and equity markets, said, \u201cWe\u2019re kind of testing the outer limits of where the bond vigilantes are really going to start protesting.\u201d

\u201cThey\u2019re concerned that maybe the Fed isn\u2019t being vigilant enough about inflation; they\u2019re concerned about the price of oil,\u201d he said. \u201cBut at the end of the day, the bond yield wouldn\u2019t be here if the economy wasn\u2019t doing well. So I view it as a vote of confidence in the strength of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI issuance factor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bonds are facing other tests as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surge of investment in artificial intelligence has coincided with a rush of companies coming to market in search of capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far this year, U.S. companies have issued nearly $1.7 trillion in bonds, up 27% from the same period a year ago and more than all of 2025 combined, according to Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association data<\/a>. The trend is mirrored overseas, with government debt yields surging around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Normally, U.S. Treasury debt is considered the deepest and most liquid market in the world. But that doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s no competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn top of concerns about the growth of government debt, a record pace of corporate bond issuance has added substantial duration supply to U.S. fixed income markets, with consequences for the outright level of yields as well as the shape of the yield curve and term premium,\u201d Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets, said in a note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe path of least resistance will likely favor higher long-end rates in the near-term unless there is a slowdown in the market supply of duration, sharp tightening of financial conditions or dimming of the economic outlook,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fed factor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the Fed itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Chairman Kevin Warsh<\/a> has been coy about where he sees rates headed, keeping with his disdain for forward guidance. A suddenly opaque central bank has added another layer of tension to a market already balancing multiple other risks, with yields rising even though the Fed has kept its benchmark rate steady in a range between 3.50%-3.75% all year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markets now are pricing in little chance the Fed will raise at its September meeting and, in fact, now doesn\u2019t foresee a high probability of an interest rate increase until December, according to the CME Group\u2019s FedWatch<\/a> tool. In turn, that has caused markets to question whether the Fed is committed to its 2% inflation target as staunchly as official rhetoric suggests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Yardeni is encouraged to see a market less influenced by the Fed, and expects that higher yields will soon attract buyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe bond market is actually finally working the way it should work. It\u2019s allocating capital efficiently,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t doing that when the Fed was basically rigging the bond market by keeping the bond yield close to zero by dropping the federal funds rate down to zero. So this this is kind of back to market-driven interest rates.\u201d

Reprinted from NBC News<\/p>\n

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