$iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF(TLT)$ $iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF(SGOV)$ US Bond has been incredibly volatile the past 5 weeks. Signs of unrest in the debt market ? US 10-year bond yield has risen by 230bps since the beginning of last year, a sizeable increase by historical standards. Lately, the increase has also been accompanied by considerable volatility. Just in the last five weeks, yields have risen and fallen by nearly 50bps in each direction. Signs of worrisome unrest in the world’s largest debt market?
The first and second reason for rates volatility are inter-related. US Federal Reserve’s policy rate hikes and quantitative tightening programs have, over the past yea