Take a good luck at today’s moves in long-term US Treasury yields, because chances are you won’t see moves of this magnitude again soon. Let’s start with the yield on the 30-year US Treasury.  Today’s decline of 29 basis points in the yield will go down as the largest one-day decline in the yield on the 30-year since 2009. For some perspective, there have only been 25 other days since 1977 where the yield saw a larger one day decline.

That doesn’t even tell the whole story, though.  As shown in the chart below, every other time the yield saw a sharper one-day decline, the actual yield of the 30-year was much higher, and in most other cases it was much, much higher.

To show this another way, the percentage change in the yield on the 30-year has never been seen before, and it’s not even close.  Now, before the chart crime police come calling, we realize showing a percentage change of a percentage is not the most accurate representation, but we wanted to show this for illustrative purposes only.

Finally, with long-term interest rates plummetting we wanted to provide an update on the performance of the Austrian 100-year bond.  That’s now back at record highs, begging the question, why is the US not flooding the market with long-term debt? Start a two-week free trial to Bespoke Institutional for full access to our research and interactive tools.