The Fed cutting for half a year — the 10-year yield

In every month the federal funds rate had been falling for half a year, what did the 10-year Treasury yield do over the following year?

26 windows met these conditions and completed 12 months. 10-Year Treasury Yield was higher 12 months later in 17 of them and lower in 9. The middle half of outcomes fell between -0.56 and 0.71.

What followed, across 26 completed windows

Higher after
17
Lower after
9
Middle half
-0.56 to +0.71
Full range
-2.18 to +3.99

Change in 10-Year Treasury Yield over the 12 months after each match. Windows are listed below so any one can be checked.

Term structure

10-Year Treasury Yield measured 1, 3, 6 and 12 months after each matched episode, with the count of completed windows at each horizon — not a forecast path, the same distribution above asked again at three more calendar distances.

HorizonNHigher / lowerMiddle halfFull range
1m2610 / 16-0.24 to +0.14-0.75 to +1.14
3m2616 / 10-0.26 to +0.37-0.87 to +1.6
6m2616 / 10-0.21 to +0.67-1.08 to +1.91
12m2617 / 9-0.56 to +0.71-2.18 to +3.99

N is windows with a complete outcome at that horizon; a window that runs past the end of the record is excluded from it, not filled in. A horizon below the 5-window floor is marked thin the same way the 12 months result above is.

The conditions, in full

Generated from the same object that produced the numbers, so the description cannot drift from the computation.

  1. condition: FEDFUNDS falling over 126 observations
  2. align: each condition is put onto the measured series' dates, taking the last observation on or before each, so windows and spans count in the measured series' own periods
  3. measure: DGS10 over the following 252 observations
  4. matches within 63 observations count as one episode

Every matching window

26 episodes, each dated. Consecutive months meeting the conditions count once.

BeganRan for10-Year Treasury Yield thenAfterChange
Feb 1964187 mo4.154.21+0.06
Sep 196541 mo4.285.23+0.95
Jan 1967209 mo4.695.48+0.79
Oct 196842 mo5.626.97+1.35
Feb 1970331 mo7.56.09-1.41
Dec 1971126 mo5.926.29+0.37
Jan 197463 mo6.967.37+0.41
Oct 1974397 mo7.978.3+0.33
Nov 1976124 mo7.387.68+0.3
May 1980126 mo10.5714.56+3.99
Jul 1981476 mo13.8114.03+0.22
Oct 1984685 mo12.5410.36-2.18
Nov 1987126 mo8.988.69-0.29
Aug 19891126 mo7.748.41+0.67
Aug 1995292 mo6.446.65+0.21
Jan 199740 mo6.545.49-1.05
Oct 1997416 mo6.044.16-1.88
Nov 2000395 mo5.485.04-0.44
Nov 2002376 mo4.014.38+0.37
Aug 2007643 mo4.763.98-0.78
Sep 2010315 mo2.521.92-0.6
Jan 2013290 mo1.862.98+1.12
Aug 2019292 mo1.90.52-1.38
Feb 2021106 mo1.091.81+0.72
Jan 202239 mo1.633.55+1.92
Sep 2024497 mo3.844.05+0.21

Recompute this

Fetch DGS10 FEDFUNDS from the API or from FRED, apply each condition on the same dates, collapse consecutive matches, and measure the change over the following 12 months. The full rule is in the claims ledger.

This page counts and dates. It does not say what will happen next, and no window above is presented as more likely than another — MacroRadar publishes historical indicators, never forecasts.