Discover how swap curves compare to yield curves, their significance in financial markets, and how to use them for assessing risk and pricing fixed-income products.

The US market consensus believes the country has avoided recession, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes showing strong performance. However, yield curves remain deeply inverted, which traditionally ...

North American yield curves are experiencing the steepest inversion of the last 3 decades, while European yield curves have flattened significantly in 2022. In the world of fixed income investing, ...

It is no secret that the bond market is the most important in the world. The well-oiled market machine burns debt as a fuel. But when you look inside, you realize that it is intermingled with yield ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Every yield curve "situation" has a series of people explaining why the yield curve doesn't matter this time, or arguing over which specific yield curve to care about. See thread and charts below.

AGNC Investment sees profitability gains from a steepened yield curve and lower funding costs, with high dividend yield.

Later in this article, I will display a chart revealing a consistent pattern of when a recession is most likely to begin. From a trader's viewpoint, pattern recognition is essential for successful ...

What the Yield Curve Actually Is At its core, the yield curve is a simple graph showing the interest rates the U.S. government pays to borrow money — from 3-month Treasury bills all the way out to ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 09: Yield curve inversion markets to markets and could happen in 2022 on the bond market's current trajectory (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) One of the best ...

There is much talk these days about the yield curve, and what its shape can tell us about the future of markets. I will not review the analytics of the curve because it is exhaustively covered in the ...