Jamie Dimon Warns of 5% Treasury Yields

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Jamie Dimon Warns of 5% Treasury Yields

By Cormac Mullen  and Joanna Ossinger
August 6, 2018, 9:07 AM GMT+8 Updated on August 6, 2018, 3:19 PM GMT+8

Not content with a previous warning investors should brace for U.S. yields of 4 percent, Jamie Dimon went one further at the weekend, suggesting 5 percent was a distinct possibility.

The JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer said Saturday people should be prepared to deal with the benchmark 10-year bond yield at 5 percent or higher.

Jamie DimonPhotographer: Giulia Marchi/Bloomberg
“I think rates should be 4 percent today,” Dimon said Saturday at the Aspen Institute’s 25th Annual Summer Celebration Gala. “You better be prepared to deal with rates 5 percent or higher - it’s a higher probability than most people think.”

The 3 percent level is still providing stiff resistance for the 10-year Treasury yield this year. It briefly rose through the mark last week before falling back for the fourth time this year. That’s despite a U.S. jobless rate below 4 percent, economic growth above 4 percent, and a rare surge in late-cycle government borrowing.

Unease about the length of the economic cycle may be behind the stalled rise in yields. “The market is starting to look beyond the 2020 time-frame and pricing in some recession risk,” said Tom Garretson, U.S. fixed-income portfolio strategist at RBC Wealth Management.

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