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It is no secret that the bond market is the most important in the world. The well-oiled market machine burns debt as a fuel. But when you look inside, you realize that it is intermingled with yield ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. Fixed income investors pay significant attention to what is known as the yield curve. This curve is a linear ...

Not every investor keeps abreast of this, but the U. S. Treasury securities yield curve, which shows the difference between long-term and short-term bond rates, is the “flattest” since 2008. In other ...

Over the last week, Treasury yields were up 0.10% at 2 years and up 0.12% at 10 years. As a result, the current 2-year/10-year Treasury spread was up 0.02% at 0.16%. The maximum probability that the 2 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - If the bond yield horizon on government debt is a useful predictor of future economic growth then emerging markets are displaying some disturbing signs for investors already edgy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Now that the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since 2018, many in the financial ...

A version of this article was published in the November 2015 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. Flaw of Averages Duration, by itself, is a crude ...

Short-term rates may fall more quickly than long-term rates, according to Invesco, which expects long-end yields to remain under upward pressure.

There is a limit to this flattening, but at the moment it is nowhere in sight. Children are told "what goes up must come down," a triumph of the mean-reversion thinking that apparently has infiltrated ...

The yield curve is a graphical representation that plots the interest rates of bonds with equal credit quality but varying maturity dates. A normal yield curve slopes upward, indicating higher ...

A yield curve is a graphical way to compare the yield on similar loans with different maturities. Several factors determine the course of the yield curve, including inflation expectations, liquidity, ...