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That increasingly rare creature — the worldwide blockbuster that also nets great reviews and awards recognition — hits disc and VOD this week, alongside a trio of wildly different (but equally invigorating) catalogue titles. And your Netflix pick for the week is a deep-dive into an inexplicable fringe group. ON NETFLIX Behind the Curve: It’s the […]
AP Images A number of commentators are stressing the necessity for the Fed funds rate to exceed the inflation rate for a recession signal. But the Fed funds rate didn’t exist until 1954. And it didn’t exceed the 10-year Treasury yield before the 1957 or 1960 recessions. For the last decade I have made a […]
AP When the yield curve — the difference between short- and long-term government bond yields — inverts, it has historically signaled a coming recession. The gap between 2-year and 10-year Treasury yields hasn’t been this slim since before the last recession. The yield curve hasn’t inverted yet, but very well could this cycle if it […]
AP/Carolyn Kaster The Treasury yield curve can hint at what investors expect future rates and inflation to be. If US growth keeps up and the Fed tightens monetary policy, it’s widely thought that yields on the front-end could rise more than those on the back this year. But other factors are at play — including […]
Thomson Reuters The flattening yield curve may not be signaling an economic downturn, as it has in the past. Investors should still tread carefully, in case it does end up portending a downturn in the future. What does a flattening yield curve mean these days? Perhaps not what it used to. No doubt, the slope […]
CENTRAL bankers may control short-term interest rates, but long-term ones are mostly free to wander. They do not always behave. When Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve, was raising short rates in 2005, he described a simultaneous decline in long rates as a “conundrum”. His successor-to-be, Ben Bernanke, blamed foreign investments in American […]
Simon White/Flickr Bank stocks are sliding as heavy buying at the long end of the Treasury curve has the flattened the 2-10-year spread to 78.5 basis points, near its flattest level since the end of 2007. The benchmark 10-year yield is down 9.6 bps to 2.07% and at its lowest levels since the week following President Donald […]
The First Lady wore pink and black check wide leg trousers which hugged her curves to make the journey. She paired the stylish item with a plain black cashmere jumper and black suede court shoes. Melania finished the look off with her current favourite pair of sunglasses, which feature modern square lenses. As usual, the […]
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– Currency in the world of dedicated hybrids—so, gas-electric vehicles sold without a non-electrified equivalent—is measured in mpg. Despite today’s low gasoline prices, this efficiency figure matters more than ever as a marketing beacon to actually move such metal. After all, why pay extra for a fuel-sipping hybrid if it isn’t mind-blowingly efficient compared to […]
