Investors are demanding higher yields because they are getting worried about rising government debt.

Learn to create a yield curve in Excel and understand its implications for interest rate forecasting. Follow our simple guide to plot your own financial data.

The yield curve has long been a closely watched indicator of economic health. When the yield curve inverts, meaning short-term interest rates exceed long-term rates, it is often seen as a harbinger of ...

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Investors are ramping up bets on higher long‑dated Treasury yields ...

The past couple of months, which include the steepening of the yield curve, have been positive for BDCs. However, higher long-term rates and a steeper yield curve create a net negative effect for BDC ...

The financial markets are full of clues and queues for investors to consider when they are looking for the next path forward in their portfolios. Though some of these factors aren't as clear-cut as ...

In macroeconomics, the yield curve is used to forecast the probability of a recession. When the curve becomes inverted, it means that short-term yields are higher than long-term yields which, up until ...

TYA is a rather simple approach to investing in the intermediate part of the yield curve sized in an amount that gives it longer-term Treasury duration. The intermediate part (or belly) of the yield ...

The gap between two key plots on the Treasury yield curve was getting smaller on Thursday following a batch of mostly positive economic data. The policy-sensitive 2-year Treasury yield was trading ...

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The 10-year Treasury yield eclipsed its 2-year counterpart on Thursday morning, putting the Treasury yield curve in positive territory once more on an intraday basis. Inversions of the yield curve ...

There’s been a major change in one of the bond market’s favorite indicators: the yield curve. After roughly two years of “inversion,” yields are now behaving like they do most of the time, with longer ...