©Reuters ’Tis the season for eggnog, awkward office parties, shopping mayhem and strategists to push out forecasts that Treasury bond yields will rise in the coming year. But will their predictions finally come true in 2016? That these forecasts have consistently been proven wrong year after year has not deterred the sellside brains trust. The 10-year Treasury yield will rise from its current 2.17 per cent to 2.8 per cent by the end of 2016, and just a whisker below 3 per cent in the first few months of 2017, according the average forecast of analysts polled by Bloomberg. More ON THIS TOPIC Markets Insight Common, flawed investor assumptions European stocks poised for recovery mode Analysis European equities favoured over US in 2016 Policy divergence looms over debt markets ON WALL STREET Investors hold breath over subprime reboot Rate environment for real estate sours Unicorns beware markets get it wrong Regulators conf...