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US bond market close to sending biggest recession signal yet
As Wall Street economists up the odds for a recession in the coming year, the bond market is sending its own scary warning about an economic downturn. Various parts of the yield curve have been inverted, but the traditionally watched 2-year to 10-year spread looks set to invert any day now, with the curve at its flattest level since 2007. The 10-year yield, at its low yield of 1.64% Monday came less than 6 basis points above the 2-year yield, which was at 1.58% in afternoon trading. The spread broke below 10 basis points last week. An inverted curve simply means a shorter-term interest rate is higher than the ... (full story)
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