The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) has sold off this year, even as investors have continued to invest in the fund. TLT dropped to $80 on Monday, its lowest level since July 2025, and nearly 9% from its highest level this year.
Diesel just crossed a price threshold that quietly reprices everything from groceries to long-term government bonds, and bond strategists say the ripple hitting Treasury yields may only be getting started.
Two Treasury ETFs from the same iShares family are delivering opposite outcomes for their investors right now. iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) is down 4.
For years, bonds were treated as the portfolio ballast that investors could rely on when stocks stumbled. That assumption took a beating after 2020.
Norway's sovereign wealth fund just signaled it may unload tens of billions in long Treasuries, and TLT holders are left asking whether the most popular long-duration ETF has quietly become a value trap hiding behind its coupon.
Buying the safest bonds in the market sounded reasonable in 2020, but TLT investors discovered something the fact sheet never puts in bold: this fund has no maturity date, no recovery date, and no floor when rates refuse to cooperate.
Markets have a short memory for good news and a long one for bad news, and this week proved it in real time.
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT), with $45.4 billion in net assets, fell to its lowest price in 22 years Tuesday, down 6% since the start of the year, as the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds climbed above 5.33%, its highest level since 2007. The fund is run by BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, with $15.3 trillion under management as of June 30.
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) ETF continued its strong downward momentum and was trading at its lowest level since 2024. It has plunged by 54% from its highest point on record as US bond yields have soared and as the US public debt nears the $40 trillion milestone.
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The popular iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) has slumped into a correction as its outflows rose and as long-term US bond yields rose. It is also under pressure as the US public debt nears the $40 trillion milestone.
The choice between iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) and iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IEF) looks trivial on paper.