{"id":1041725,"date":"2026-10-08T09:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041725"},"modified":"2026-10-08T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:53:30","slug":"ai-boom-behind-20-of-us-bond-yield-surge-whats-driving-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/ai-boom-behind-20-of-us-bond-yield-surge-whats-driving-the-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"AI boom behind 20% of US bond yield surge: What\u2019s driving the rise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bond yields continue to climb, and the AI boom is getting part of the blame. The 10-year US Treasury yield climbed as high as 5.34%, its highest since 2002, while the 30-year yield spiked to a 24-year high of 5.69%. <\/p>\n<p>First, a quick refresher. Bond yields move opposite to bond prices. So when investors sell bonds, prices fall and yields rise. A rise in yields also brings in the expectation of a higher-rate scenario. That is not good news. It is not looked upon favourably for the economy, corporates and borrowers. Why? Higher rates make loans costlier and squeeze growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bond yields continue to climb, and the AI boom is getting part of the blame. The 10-year US Treasury yield climbed as high as 5.34%, its highest since 2002, while the 30-year yield spiked to a 24-year high of 5.69%. First, a quick refresher. Bond yields move opposite to bond prices. So when investors sell bonds, prices fall and yields rise. A rise in yields also brings in the expectation of a higher-rate scenario. That is not good news. It is not looked upon favourably for the economy, corporates and borrowers. Why? Higher rates make loans costlier and squeeze growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041752,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041725\/revisions\/1041752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}