{"id":2265,"date":"2006-04-04T08:07:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2006-04-04T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T08:07:13","slug":"long_term_rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Long Term Rates Creep Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&amp;etMailToID=58427848\">Mark Whitehouse and Serena Ng<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>After stubbornly resisting nearly two years of prodding by the Federal Reserve, long-term interest rates are on the rise, a trend that could eventually slow the nation&#8217;s expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note &#8212; the foundation for long-term interest rates &#8212; rose as high as 4.905%, matching a two-year peak set in May 2004. Some analysts believe the yield is on a run that will take it above 5%.<\/p>\n<p>The upturn, spurred by deepening economic growth in the U.S. and abroad, is pushing up the cost of a widening range of consumer and business loans &#8212; including 30-year mortgages and corporate bonds &#8212; from extraordinarily low levels.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Whitehouse and Serena Ng: After stubbornly resisting nearly two years of prodding by the Federal Reserve, long-term interest rates are on the rise, a trend that could eventually slow the nation&#8217;s expansion. Yesterday, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note &#8212; the foundation for long-term interest rates &#8212; rose as high as 4.905%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}