Now, to the charts, starting, as usual, with the yield curve. This is the difference ("spread") between what it costs the US government to borrow money over ten years and what it costs over two.
2.25% and 3.4%.If you were to plot these three points for Britain or America on a graph and connect them, you'd have an upward sloping yield curve (see chart right). Don't miss the latest ...
A yield curve is a graph on which bonds are represented by plotted points. A bond’s Y-axis position represents its interest (coupon) rate, and its X-axis position represents its term.
Business Insider reader Jim Laird created this animated chart tracking Treasury yield curves compared to the actual yield on a three-month Treasury. The yield curve is a line that plots a set of ...
That’s the highest estimate since the early 1980s, when a recession hit, and recessions have followed far lower levels of yield curve inversion. The model has a robust track record in calling ...