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inverted yield curve

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Inverted yield curve
When short-term interest rates are higher than long-term rates. Antithesis of positive yield curve.

inverted yield curve


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Davis points out that a number of observers have expressed surprise that an inverted yield curve between long- and short-term interest rates would develop in the capital markets at a time when the economy did not appear to be in any immediate danger of tanking.
Those views are based on long-term rates remaining relatively low while short-term rates rise and comments by Bernanke which indicate no concern an inverted yield curve would signal economic slowdown.
 
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