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# 10-year Treasury yield
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/10-year-treasury-yield
Last modified: 2026-10-17

The ten-year Treasury yield is the benchmark long rate that mortgages, company debt and stock valuations are priced off. The Fed does not set it; growth, inflation expectations and [the term premium](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-the-fed-moves-markets) do. When it rises, [long-dated growth sectors fall harder than banks](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-us-stock-prices-form), and in September 2026 [seventeen of its eighteen basis points were real return, not inflation fear](https://mochatrade.com/blog/mocha-markets-weekly-ccd).

## Related terms

- Treasury yield: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/treasury-yield
- Term premium: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/term-premium
- 2-year Treasury yield: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/2-year-treasury-yield
- Dot plot: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/dot-plot
- Yield curve: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/yield-curve
- Growth vs value stocks: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/growth-vs-value-stocks