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Bloomberg US MBS Bond Index Total Return Value Unhedged USD GAS-GARCH Student T Volatility Analysis

Volatility prediction for Friday, October 16th, 2026

1 Day

6.27%

increased by 0.41%

1 Week

6.27%

increased by 0.41%

1 Month

6.25%

increased by 0.39%

Analysis last updated: Friday, October 16, 2026 at 11:50 PM UTC

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News Impact Curve

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Volatility Forecast

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Parameter Estimates

Jan 1, 1990 to Oct 8, 2026

Model Insight

With persistence 0.998, volatility shocks have a half-life of 449 trading days (~1.8 years), close to a unit root, so long-run forecasts are highly sensitive to this estimate. Returns follow a Student-t distribution with v = 6.69 degrees of freedom, capturing fatter tails than a normal distribution.

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GAS-GARCH-T Model

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High persistence: persistence 0.998, shock half-life ~449 daysv = 6.69 · fat tails
ParamValuet-stat
ωlong-run0.0965
2.30**
αscore0.0677
18.93***
βpersistence0.9985
1,543.21***
νDF6.6916
5.39***

0.998

Persistence

449d

Half-life
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GAS-GARCH-T Model

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ParameterValuet-statistic
ω

long-run

Long-run variance given a price move

0.0965
2.30**
α

score

Weight on the scaled score

0.0677
18.93***
β

persistence

Volatility persistence

0.9985
1,543.21***
ν

DF

Student-t tail thickness

6.6916
5.39***

Persistence:

0.998

Half-life:

449 days