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SCHQ - The Bond Market Will Have A Tough Time Repeating Last Year's Performance In 2020
Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF
Bonds had a good year in 2019. The Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate US Bond Index returned 8.72%, its best performance in 17 years.
Source: Bloomberg
The 8.72% gain exceeded the average annual returns for the past 5-, 10-, 20- and 30-year periods of 3.05%, 3.75%, 5.03% and 5.91%, respectively. Performance was driven by a sharp decline in interest rates across the yield curve and a compression in yield spreads for credit products.
Rates dropped the most in the front end of the curve as the Fed cut interest rates 3 times during the year. One-year US