For example, in the UK, these are known as gilts, whereas those issued by the US central bank are Treasuries. Broadly the yield curve will slope upwards during periods of economic expansion ...

Yield curve proponents say inversion is bad because ... mortgages or 10-year commercial loans are some of the most common examples. The 10-year US Treasury yield—considered the primary default ...

For example, suppose the one-year government bond ... exercise for all maturities and you have the one-year forward yield curve. The yield curve graph is usually yield (y-axis) against maturity ...

For example, the 30-year mortgage rate historically runs about one to two percentage points above the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds. The Treasury yield curve (or term structure) shows the yields ...

For example, jobless claims appear to be moving ... High short-term interest rates could mean that the yield curve remains inverted for some time. If that happens, then the recession debate ...

Treasury 2-year yields moved to 4.29% this week from 4.22% last week. At 10 years, this week’s yield is 4.49%, compared with ...

The event – commonly dubbed a yield curve inversion – was largely viewed as a signal the U.S. economy would likely slip into recession in the near future. An inverted yield curve occurs when ...

The federal-funds rate is an overnight rate, so it anchors the very short end of the yield curve. Fixed-income instruments with low risk and very short maturities (say, a one-month T-bill ...

The inverted Treasury yield curve is hitting extreme new levels. But paradoxically, it may be suggesting that investors are both more worried about a recession and less worried. WSJ’s Dion ...