treasury note

noun

1

: a U.S. government bond usually with a maturity of not less than one year or more than seven years

2

: a currency note issued by the U.S. Treasury in payment for silver bullion purchased under the Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890

Examples of treasury note in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Berenberg forecasts that the yield on the 10-year treasury note will rise to 4.8 percent, up from about 4.4 percent this morning. —Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025

The yield on two-year treasury notes has fallen from 4.16% to 3.61% over the same time frame. —Pete Gannon, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024

The yield on the two-year treasury note, which peaked at just over 5.2% toward the end of last year, and the beginning of this year, is now at 3.9% while the ten-year yield remains comfortably below 4%. —Ron Insana, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2024

The yield for the 10-year treasury note topped 5% in early October, the highest level since 2007. —Jon Markman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

Typical conventional investments are stocks, mutual funds, etfs, municipal and corporate bonds, and treasury notes. —Aaron W. Clarke, Cfp, Aif, Forbes, 16 July 2023

The rate hikes tend to drive up the rate of the 10-year treasury note, a close proxy for mortgage costs. —Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2022

Interest rates barely budged, with the yield on the 10-year U.S. treasury note finishing the week at 2.85%, up lest than one-third of a percentage point from last Friday. —John Dobosz, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022

Yield differentials between the 30-year current coupon MBS, and the 10-year treasury note have widened by over 100 basis points over the year, and ended the quarter at a spread of 140 basis points. —Moneyshow, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1890, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for treasury note

• afloat
• azote
• banknote
• bareboat
• benzoate
• connote
• cutthroat
• demote
• denote
• devote
• endnote
• footnote

Legal Definition

Treasury note

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