Treasury Yields Little Changed, 3-Year Yield at 4.29% (Aug 26, 2026)

At 4.19 percent, the 2-year Treasury rate held steady from a week earlier on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, while longer maturities edged higher along the front-to-back progression of the Treasury yield curve. From that 4.19 percent reading, the 3-year stood at 4.29 percent, the 5-year at 4.37 percent, the 7-year at 4.51 percent, and the 10-year Treasury rate at 4.66 percent, up from 4.65 percent one week ago. The 20-year yield reached 5.17 percent, and the 30-year Treasury yield finished at 5.18 percent, down slightly from 5.19 percent a week earlier but the highest rate on the curve.

Front-end bill rates were mixed. The 1-year rate climbed to 4.02 percent from 4.00 percent, the 3-month rate slipped to 3.85 percent from 3.86 percent, and the 4-week Treasury bill rate rose to 3.80 percent from 3.77 percent. One irregularity sits at the very front, where the 4-week rate of 3.80 percent is above the 6-week rate of 3.78 percent; last week those two were equal at 3.77 percent, and 30 days ago the 4-week rate of 3.73 percent was below the 6-week rate of 3.76 percent. The 6-month rate stood at 3.94 percent, unchanged from a week ago.

Over a 30-day span, rates are higher across nearly all maturities. The 10-year Treasury rate is up from 4.55 percent, the 30-year from 5.08 percent, the 2-year from 4.13 percent, and the 5-year from 4.26 percent, while the 1-year rose from 3.97 percent and the 6-month from 3.93 percent. Against August 26, 2025, today's 10-year rate of 4.66 percent is well above 4.26 percent, the 30-year yield of 5.18 percent exceeds 4.90 percent, and the 2-year rate of 4.19 percent is far higher than 3.61 percent. The curve slopes upward throughout, with the 2-year at 4.19 percent below the 10-year at 4.66 percent, a gap of 47 hundredths of a percent versus 46 hundredths last week and 42 hundredths 30 days ago.