# Prof. Aswath Damodaran on treasury yields

1 Faculty News May 12, 2012 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/your-money/investors-flights-to-safety-cant-hide-the-danger.html?_r=1) -- "'I think the main factor holding long-term rates down now is very weak global economic growth, and I don’t see that changing soon,' \[[Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran)\] said. One indication that the world had truly recovered from the financial crisis would be a rise in 10-year Treasury yields to 4 percent, he said, but he did not see that prospect as imminent."

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