Treasury Rally on Fed Bets Is Just Getting Started: BofA

The rally in Treasury bills ahead of the Federal Reserve’s first interest-rate cut may only just be getting started, according to Bank of America Corp. research.

The 10-year yield has already fallen toward 4% from a 16-year high above 5% reached in October. It could fall nearly two percentage points more, according to the bank’s analysis of prior bond moves between a final Fed rate hike and a first cut.

“The Treasury market has rallied substantially after the last hike in each of the five hiking cycles back to the 1988 cycle,” said strategists including Ralph Axel and Meghan Swiber in a client note.

The strategists calculated the biggest drop was 163 basis points, with an average fall of 107 basis points.

With a potential pivot by global central banks from hikes to cuts next year at the top of the agenda for investors, the research is an effort to show the possibilities of where U.S. yields could end up. That would have a spillover effect across global markets.