Interest rate bond relationship
Assume an investor owns a bond that pays a 5% annual coupon rate. If interest rates go up to 6%, new bonds being issued reflect these higher rates. Investors naturally want bonds with a higher interest rate. This reduces the desirability for bonds with lower rates, including the bond only paying 5% interest. Interest rates are at their lowest levels in years. That's because the 10-year Treasury note yield fell to 1.46 percent on July 1, 2016. Investors fled from European investments after Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. The yield rebounded after Donald Trump won the 2016