Why do interviewers ask what the 10-year treasury yield is trading at?
I understand the important of the note and its yield, but do prospective summer analysts actually keep daily tabs on it?
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Bruh you don't need to know it to the exact .01%, so check maybe once a week
Lul I don’t know much about it I didn’t know how much it fluctuated that makes more sense then
Yeah I heard interns lose offers for quoting yesterday evening's 10YR Treasury yield instead of this morning's - stay on top of it king /s
Lol wtf I’m just asking a question and clearly don’t understand how it works. Thank god your comment was that condensing though cause I really thought I knew what was going on here!
I’m kidding bro lighten up ❤️
Since no one is giving you a clear answer, I will give it a go. It is often used a proxy for the risk-free rate.
Had it asked in this context in an interview and followed up into a valuation question
It’s important to calculate beta to get the cost of equity for the WACC in a DCF, or cost of equity for an LBO (less regular).
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