{"id":30195,"date":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/singapore-t-bill-yield-hits-1-46-should-you-play-it-safe-or-invest-in-sti\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:33:21","slug":"singapore-t-bill-yield-hits-1-46-should-you-play-it-safe-or-invest-in-sti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/singapore-t-bill-yield-hits-1-46-should-you-play-it-safe-or-invest-in-sti\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore T-Bill Yield Hits 1.46%: Should You Play It Safe Or Invest In STI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>The results of the latest 6-month Singapore T-bill auction are in, and they have confirmed what many in the market suspected: volatility is pushing yields higher. With a cut-off yield of 1.46% at the March 26 auction, which represents quite a significant jump from the 1.37% seen just two weeks earlier, some may wonder whether it is time to take a closer look at T-bills again. At Smart Investor, we have always emphasized the importance of being able <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesmartinvestor.com.sg\/keep-calm-and-invest-5-ways-to-help-you-through-crises\/\">sleep well at night<\/a>. And when the market feels bullish, it&#8217;s easier to play it safe, even if it means less income and no long-term growth.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-what-is-driving-singapore-t-bill-yields-higher\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is the reason for the high yield of Singapore T-bills?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sudden increase in T-bill yields did not happen in a vacuum. Currently we are seeing US government bond yields rising as global markets react to growth <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thesmartinvestor.com.sg\/alert-3-red-flags-for-singapore-investors-as-global-tensions-explode\/\">conflict in the middle east<\/a> And low expectations from the Fed to cut interest rates&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v4.0\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"3nfhalVK\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0\" nonce=\"blyG8KXs\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results of the latest 6-month Singapore T-bill auction are in, and they have confirmed what many in the market suspected: volatility is pushing yields higher. With a cut-off yield of 1.46% at the March 26 auction, which represents quite a significant jump from the 1.37% seen just two weeks earlier, some may wonder whether<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1405,7213,1188,1825,2389,13024,10262,828],"class_list":{"0":"post-30195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-bread","8":"tag-hits","9":"tag-invest","10":"tag-play","11":"tag-safe","12":"tag-singapore","13":"tag-sti","14":"tag-tbill","15":"tag-yield"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30196,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30195\/revisions\/30196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}