Bond yields keep rising. How income investors can best take advantage of the moves

Cnbc · Sep 24, 2026 · 801 words · By Michelle Fox

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What to know about Bond yields keep rising. How income investors can best take advantage of the moves

Rising rates and bond market volatility are creating select opportunities for income investors.

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What happened

Rising rates and bond market volatility are creating select opportunities for income investors.

Why it matters

Treasury yields were once again rising on Thursday, with the benchmark 10-year yield hitting levels not seen since 2007 and the 30-year Treasury touching highs not seen since 2004.

Common ground

The former was last yielding 5.179% and the latter at 5.469%.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “floating-rate bank loans... are considered below investment grade”

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Multiple independent sources (InvestmentNews, Franklin Templeton) explicitly state that floating-rate bank loans are considered below investment grade.

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web search NEUTRAL — Floating-rate loans and debt securities tend to be rated below investment grade.
https://www.franklintempleton.co.uk/articles/blogs/why-bank-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Although the bank loan category qualifies as below investment- grade, it generally is considered higher quality than traditional high-yield bonds, mainly because of the floating-rate feature.
https://www.investmentnews.com/fixed-income/floating-rate-ba…

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web search NEUTRAL — Senior loans, also called bank loans, are a form of below-investment grade debt financing used by public and private companies and are also often used by private equity firms to finance acquisitions (…
https://www.fa-mag.com/news/senior-secured-loans-become-even…

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Claim 2: “Treasury bills are the safest since they are backed by the government”

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Authoritative financial sources confirm that Treasury bills are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

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web search NEUTRAL — Treasury Bills (T-Bills): What They Are and How To Invest.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/treasurybill.asp

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web search NEUTRAL — A Treasury bill acts as short-term loan to the U.S. government. The Treasury sells bills at auction with maturities of 4, 6, 8, 13, 17, 26 and 52 weeks.Treasuries have no FDIC insurance. They are back…
https://247wallst.com/investing/2026/10/07/treasury-bills-be…

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web search NEUTRAL — Treasury bills are short-term government debt. A government sells them for less than their face value and repays the full face value on a set date, usually within a year. The gap between the two is yo…
https://binderr.com/marketplace/what-are-treasury-bills

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Claim 3: “The former [10-year yield] was last yielding 5.179% and the latter [30-year yield] at 5.469%.”

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While web search results discuss 10-year and 30-year yields, none of the provided evidence snippets contain the specific figures 5.179% or 5.469%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States. It is one of 15 current U.S. government departments. The treasury …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_th…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The chancellor of the exchequer (formally chancellor and under treasurer of His Majesty’s exchequer), often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancellor_of_the_Exchequer

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — His Majesty's Treasury (often shortened to HM Treasury, the Treasury or HMT) is the Government of the United Kingdom’s economic and finance ministry, managing the United Kingdom's public spending and …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Treasury

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Claim 4: “the benchmark 10-year yield hitting levels not seen since 2007”

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Multiple independent web sources (Xinhua and other news reports) confirm the 10-year Treasury yield hit its highest level since 2007.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A treasury is either: a government department related to finance and taxation, a finance ministry; in a business context, corporate treasury a place or location where treasure, such as currency or pr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A treasury is a financial safe-house. Treasury may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_(disambiguation)

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Claim 5: “The State Street SPDR Bloomberg Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF (FLRN) , for instance, has a 30-day SEC yield of 4.02% and 0.15% expense ratio.”

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Web search results confirm the existence of the FLRN ETF and its purpose, but the specific 30-day SEC yield of 4.02% and expense ratio of 0.15% are not present in the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Key Features. The State Street® SPDR® Bloomberg Investment Grade Floating Rate ETF seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield perfo…
https://www.ssga.com/us/en/intermediary/etfs/state-street-sp…

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web search NEUTRAL — Floating rate debt has very low sensitivity to interest rates, since the payouts to investors adjust with movements in a reference benchmark rate. So for those concerned about increases in interest ra…
https://etfdb.com/etf/FLRN/

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web search NEUTRAL — XSD State Street SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF. 534.88 +1.37%. RING iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF.UTES Virtus Reaves Utilities ETF. 70.77 +1.30%. GLD SPDR Gold Shares. 382.69 +1.26%. XNTK State Str…
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/FLRN/

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Claim 6: “the 30-year Treasury touching highs not seen since 2004”

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Three independent cross-references (CNBC and Flipboard) explicitly state the 30-year Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2004.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A treasury is a financial safe-house. Treasury may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_(disambiguation)

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Claim 7: “Long-dated bonds have greater duration, which is a measurement of the assets' price sensitivity to interest rate moves.”

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Multiple educational and financial sources (Brainly, etc.) confirm that higher duration indicates greater price sensitivity to interest rate changes.

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web search NEUTRAL — How Does Higher Duration Affect Sensitivity? Interest Rate Risk: A bond with a higher duration will experience a larger percentage change in price for a specific change in interest rates compared to a…
https://brainly.com/question/59736226

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web search NEUTRAL — Price Sensitivity: Short-Term vs. Long-Term Bonds. Short-Term Bonds: These bonds typically have maturities of less than five years. They are less sensitive to interest rate changes because their cash …
https://securitiesexamsmastery.ca/csc-vol-1/07-fixed-income-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Why Duration Determines Price Sensitivity. The central importance of duration stems from the way bond prices react to interest rate environment shifts. A bond with a duration of 2 will barely move whe…
https://bondfish.com/readings/bond-duration-vs-maturity-diff…

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Claim 8: “The central bank hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point last week”

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Multiple web sources (Anadolu Ajansı and other reports) confirm the Federal Reserve increased the benchmark interest rate by 0.25%.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. The incumbent is the active executive officer of the Board …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_of_the_Federal_Reserve

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. It oversees the Federa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created on December 23, 1913, with the enactment of th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

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Claim 9: “the market is now pricing in a roughly 70% chance it will do so again at its October meeting, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool”

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The claim states a 70% chance of a hike in October. However, the provided evidence from the CME FedWatch tool shows probabilities of 22% and 18.3%, directly contradicting the 70% figure.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions (banks and credit unions) lend reserve balances to other depository institutions overnight on an uncollateralized basis. Re…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — FedEx Corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, is an American multinational conglomerate holding company specializing in package delivery. Its services include FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, Fe…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone_Inc.

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Claim 10: “Bond yields move inversely to prices.”

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Multiple independent reports from CNBC confirm the inverse relationship between bond yields and prices.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/07/treasury-yields-slide-iran-p…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/uk-local-election-bond-yield…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/uk-election-result-keir-star…

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