The 10-year Treasury note yield is flitting around a 3-year high amid speculation that the federal government could go into a partial government shutdown if a stopgap spending bill is not passed. The yield for the benchmark maturity was at 2.635%, the highest since September 2014, according to Tradeweb. In addition, improving global growth and growing inflation concerns have put U.S. government paper under pressure. Debt prices fall when yields rise. Investing luminaries including Bill Gross of Janus Henderson and Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital have recently warned that a bond bear market could end the the record bull run in equities.
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