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The yield on the 10 -year U .S.

Treasury recently climbed above 5%, its highest level in more than two decades.

This is basically the most important single number in finance.

Global fund managers say a disorderly rise in bond yields is the biggest perceived tail risk to markets, even ahead of concerns about an AI bubble.

5 % doesn't mean anything in and of itself, but it's a psychologically important number for a lot of people in the markets.

And when it gets this high this fast, it makes people worried that something is going wrong in the economy

or that it could mean that the stock market is about to crash.

So then what's pushing yields higher?

And where are some investors starting to see an opportunity?

When a government issues a fixed rate

Treasury note or bond, it promises set interest payments.

But the bonds yield, essentially the market rate of return investors can earn, changes as the price moves.

Think of bond prices and yields like a seesaw.

When a bond's price falls, its yield rises.

For example, let's say an investor pays $100 for a bond that pays $5 a year.

Later, that investor sells the same bond to someone else for $90.

The new buyer still receives the same $5 payment each year.

But $5 is a bigger return on a $90 purchase than a $100 one.

That's why the yield rises.

But there's nothing really new under the sign.

We've had high treasury yields before.

You know, back in the 1990s and before, it was very common for the 10 -year to get above 6%.

What's changed now is that

Americans really got used to low interest rates for a long time.

After the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve kept interest rates low, and that set a floor under interest rates across the economy.

So that persisted really for about 15 years, and we've, in a sense, just kind of come back to what was normal for the economy.

There are a couple of things that have gone into the rise in long term government bond yields.

One is the expectation

that the Federal Reserve has sort of moved into a new

regime where it's likely to keep interest rates a little bit higher to combat inflation than it had in the past.

When investors expect interest rates to remain high,

older bonds issued back when rates were lower become less attractive when compared to newer bonds that offer higher returns.

So those older bonds have to sell for less to attract buyers.

And because their fixed interest payments stay the same, their yields rise.

But there's a lot of other stuff going on.

Investors are increasingly competing for capital.

So you see the private sector has a huge demand for debt right now.

All these AI companies are issuing hundreds of billions of dollars in new debt.

And that is competing to some extent with government debt,

which is also sort of flooding the market at the moment because the federal deficit is really high.

And companies also borrow money from investors by issuing bonds, which are different than stocks.

That gives investors another place to put their money, creating competition with U .S treasuries for buyers.

You see private companies out there saying, you know, we are willing to accept higher interest payments because we think we've got really good investments.

Higher treasury yields are also changing the choices investors face, particularly when it comes to stocks.

This rise in long -term interest rates is a reality check for the markets.

It's a moment when investors have to get their head around what exactly is happening here and why.

For instance, you might look out and say, hey, I can get a very low risk return in the bond market.

Why would I put my money in stocks?

For now, this isn't happening.

Investors are perfectly comfortable to keep investing in the stock market because they see AI companies and others potentially making huge returns.

But that level can't stick around forever.

Some major investors are starting to reconsider that trade -off.

BlackRock upgraded its view of U .S.

Treasuries in an October note, favoring shorter -term bonds while moving its position on U .S stocks to neutral.

And nearly one in five global fund managers say U .S.

Treasury yields are already high enough to prompt a shift from stocks to bonds.

The largest group, 37%, would consider making that shift at 6%.

For now, we haven't hit this level where high yields would crash the stock market.

We'll get there at some point if yields keep going up because there is a point at which investors will say,

I would like to get 5%, 6%, 7 % risk -free return without having any chance of losing my money.

And they'll put their money in treasuries rather than in the stock market.

But the stock market is for now so tempting in its potential future returns that investors haven't been particularly swayed by that.

Thank you.

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这节口语课以视频“Why Bonds Are Back On Investors’ Radar”为素材。视频中反复出现的词有：investor, yield, bond, stock, rate。这段视频共有 63 个句子、826 个单词可供跟读。讲话部分时长为 5:00。说话人语速自然，每分钟约 165 个词，接近日常对话。 82% 的单词属于英语最常用的 3,000 词，其余的词建议在练习前先学一下。

视频中的重点词汇

视频中 15 个值得学习的单词，附发音和释义：

单词	发音	释义
yield 动词	/jiːld/	產量 /产量, 產生 /产生
investor 名词	/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/	投資者 /投资者, 投資家 /投资家
treasury 名词	/ˈtɹɛʒ.ɚ.i/	金庫 /金库
buyer 名词	/ˈbaɪ.əɹ/	買主 /买主, 購買人 /购买人
compete 动词	/kəmˈpiːt/	競爭 /竞争, 高下
earn 动词	/ɝn/	掙 /挣, 賺 /赚
extent 名词	/ɪkˈstɛnt/	範圍 /范围
compare 动词	/kəmˈpɛɚ/	比, 比較 /比较
essentially 副词	/ɪˈsɛnʃəli/	本質上 /本质上, 基本上
flood 名词	/flʌd/	洪水, 洪災 /洪灾
tail 名词	/ˈteɪ̯l/	йиба, 尾
invest 动词	/ɪnˈvɛst/	耗費 /耗费, 投資 /投资
regime 名词	/ɹəˈʒiːm/	制度, 體制 /体制
neutral 形容词	/ˈnuː.tɹəl/	中立
climb 动词	/ˈklaɪ̯m/	登

视频中出现的短语动词

单词	释义
go up 动词	上昇 /上升, 上去
look out 动词	当心, 小心

需要注意的发音

说话人用了 10 次缩略和弱读形式，例如 we've, haven't, can't。请按听到的简短形式来说。

“sh” 和 “zh” 音: treasury /ˈtɹɛʒ.ɚ.i/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, regime /ɹəˈʒiːm/, inflation /ɪnˈfleɪ.ʃən/
长单词——注意重音位置: essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/, reconsider /ˈɹiːkənˌsɪdə/, disorderly /dɪsˈɔː.də.li/

中文母语者容易读错的音：

/v/ — 不要读成 /w/，上齿轻触下唇: investor /ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/, perceive /pɚˈsiv/
词尾辅音 — 要读清楚，后面不要加元音: yield /jiːld/, compete /kəmˈpiːt/, extent /ɪkˈstɛnt/, flood /flʌd/, invest /ɪnˈvɛst/

如何用这段视频练习

先完整听一遍视频，不要开口，记下不认识的单词。
先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟读，熟练之后再回到正常速度。
录下自己的声音并与原声对比，特别注意 yield, investor, treasury 这类单词。

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