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A two-year T-note clears at 30 percent. The yield curve is no longer a curve.

It is a near-flat line at the upper end of stress. Pension fund actuaries are quietly recalibrating.

Chimwemwe Phiri  Macro correspondent
5 May 2026
7 min

The two-year cleared at exactly 30 percent on Monday, leaving an effectively flat curve at the upper end of stress.

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Chimwemwe Phiri

Macro correspondent

Chimwemwe writes about macroeconomics, sovereign debt and the political economy of fiscal policy. Previously: Bloomberg and the Africa Confidential bureau in Lilongwe.

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