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• Treasury bond
  Treasury bond

  noun

  any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.
• treasury bond
  treasury bond

  noun

  a long-term interest-bearing bond issued by the US Treasury

Treasury bond

American  

Or treasury bond

noun

1. any of various interest-bearing bonds issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, usually maturing over a long period of time.

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treasury bond British  

noun

1. a long-term interest-bearing bond issued by the US Treasury

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Etymology

Origin of Treasury bond

First recorded in 1855–60

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The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond declined 0.036 percentage point, to 5.125%, extending the longest streak of closes above 5% since 2007.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

Elliott argues such a move would be self-defeating, because Treasury bond yields would rise to compensate.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

Treasury bond during any given year was 1.1%.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

It was a sea change as investors previously would have to guess the Fed’s posture toward interest rates by watching for changes in the Treasury bond market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Treasury bond; hardly anyone could understand a subprime mortgage–backed CDO.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

They don't know the mechanics of how treasury bonds are bought and sold — they just know that there's a treasury bond market and they need to get some dollars from that.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2025

—The bond market freakout: More worrisome to financial observers was weird, counterintuitive activity in the treasury bond market.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

The central bank replaced an existing 20% reserve requirement ratio for credits with a higher 30% treasury bond collateral requirement.

From Reuters ● Aug. 20, 2022

Just 10 years ago, the U.S. 10-year treasury bond yielded about 3 percent, Five years prior to that, it offered more than 5 percent.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2021

Let’s say that you choose the U.S. treasury bond as your baseline return and it gives an expected return of five percent.

From Encyclopedia.com ● Mar. 31, 2018