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Does a bond's yield (principal and coupon rate) always equal the bank interest rate?

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  • $\begingroup$ There are several different bonds with numerically different yields, they cannot all equal "the bank interest rate". And what exactly do you mean by "the bank interest rate"? $\endgroup$
    – Giskard
    Commented Aug 30, 2020 at 20:58

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Each fixed income instrument has an interest rate implied by a transaction price, and these prices can move in different directions.

The FRED website has a list of some of the more important interest rates in the United States: link to FRED. However, these are mainly “generic” yields, which are based on fitting a curve through traded bond quotes. For example, the “10-year Treasury bond” yield shown on the website is going to be close to the the market yields of Treasury bonds/notes that are near a 10-year maturity, but there are spreads between them.

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