10-Year Treasury Yields – Two Long-Term Charts As Of February 11, 2016

Yesterday (February 11, 2016) the yield on the 10-Year Treasury went below 1.60%, before closing at 1.644%.

As a reference, here is a long-term chart of the 10-Year Treasury yield since 1980, depicted on a monthly basis, LOG scale, with price labels:

(click on charts to enlarge images)(charts courtesy of StockCharts.com; chart creation and annotation by the author)

Here is a long-term chart of the 10-Year Treasury yield since 2005, depicted on a weekly basis, LOG scale, with price labels:

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