Mastery task

Six items on today's full U.S. Treasury par curve, drawn live at render time: every tenor's yield on the record's date, the same tenors one month and one year earlier, and the 2s10s and 3m10y spreads with their state labels. Read the figures from the record named below and work each item from them. Pass mark 80%.

Pass mark 80%. This attempt’s record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15) — not used in any lesson.

  1. 1. This record, dated 2026-09-15, lists a yield for each tenor from one month out to thirty years, all observed on that one day. Taken together, the figures are best described as:

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

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  2. 2. This record's 10-year yield reads 5.00% and its 2-year yield 4.67%. Subtract the 2-year yield from the 10-year yield and express the result in basis points (1 basis point = 0.01 percentage point). Enter the nearest whole number; a negative answer is allowed.

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

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  3. 3. This record's 2-year yield reads 4.67% and its 10-year yield 5.00%. Whenever the 2-year figure sits five basis points or more above the 10-year figure, the 2-year-to-10-year segment of the curve is factually described as:

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

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  4. 4. This record gives the 10-year and 2-year yields today (5.00% and 4.67%, dated 2026-09-15) and one year earlier (4.05% and 3.54%, dated 2025-09-15). Compute the 2s10s spread (10-year minus 2-year) at each date. Enter today's spread minus the year-ago spread, in basis points, to the nearest whole number; a negative answer is allowed.

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

    Before you answer: how confident are you?
    Tolerance ±0.5 bp
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  5. 5. This record's 10-year yield — the long end of the curve — reads 5.00% today and 4.05% one year earlier. By how many basis points did it change over the year? Enter today's figure minus the year-ago figure, to the nearest whole number; a negative answer is allowed.

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

    Before you answer: how confident are you?
    Tolerance ±0.5 bp
    Choose your confidence first.

  6. 6. This record's 2s10s spread reads 0.33 pp — one dated reading in percentage points. Suppose its percentile against the spread's full recorded history reads 20. The figure 20 means:

    Source record: U.S. Treasury par yield curve (as of 2026-09-15)

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