The yield curve can tell us a lot about where the economy is headed. Here’s how the yield curve works and how you can use it ...

Broadly the yield curve will slope upwards during periods of economic expansion, slope downwards when the economy is slowing ...

The yield curve is “steep” when long-term interest rates are well above short. It is “flat” when long rates are barely above short rates. It “inverts” when short rates top long rates.

Bank stocks had a banner 2024, following a dismal two years, because of the Federal Reserve’s change in interest-rate policy ...

The IMF was referring in part to the phenomenon of a flat yield curve, where rates on longer-term bonds — supposed to be substantially higher than those of their short-term counterparts to ...

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 ...