Naturally, there are those who plan to wait until the Treasury
bond yield curve inverts before lowering their allocation to equities.
Not exact matches
Treasury
yields, as usual, collapsed after the panic, generating equity - like returns for those intrepid
bond investors who had extended maturities as the
yield curve inverted.
In cases since 1960 where the slope of the
yield curve was
inverted, 10 - year
bond yields actually rose following the Fed's first rate cut - an average of 43 basis points over the next 12 months and 15 basis points over the next 18 months.
My summary advice for the FOMC would be this: before you flatten /
invert the
yield curve, start selling all of the long MBS and Treasury
bonds with average maturities longer than 10 years.
I know some market participants are taking the view that inflation will remain weak and further rate hikes will
invert the
curve, cause a recession, and we will see even lower
yields on long term
bonds.
Michael Pento, the president and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies and author of the book, «The Coming
Bond Market Collapse», and the producer of weekly podcast, «The Mid-week Reality Check», wrote in his commentary on CNBC that «the
yield curve will
invert by the end of this year and an equity market plunge and a recession is sure to follow».
Spread
curves of high
yield bonds tend to
invert when the Treasury
yield curve is steeply sloped.
Those two together you a flat or
inverted yield curve where short term
bonds yield the same or even more than long - term
bonds.
the relationship between interest rates and time, determined by plotting the
yields of all or as many
bonds of similar credit quality (eg: Treasuries or AA - rated Corporates), against their maturities;
yield curves typically slope upward since longer maturities normally have higher
yields, although it can be flat or even
inverted; the Fixed Income Search Results Scattergraph shows several smoothed
yield curves for different fixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based on
bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of
bonds, which is significantly larger than the number of
bonds offered by Fidelity on any given day
To
invert the Treasury
yield curve when the Fed is holding short rates at zero, we would have to see the Fed engage in Quantitative Easing to the degree that Treasury Notes and
Bonds can be issued at significant negative interest rates.
My summary advice for the FOMC would be this: before you flatten /
invert the
yield curve, start selling all of the long MBS and Treasury
bonds with average maturities longer than 10 years.
Notable exceptions include an
inverted yield curve, where shorter duration
bonds have higher
yields than longer duration
bonds.)
In cases since 1960 where the slope of the
yield curve was
inverted, 10 - year
bond yields actually rose following the Fed's first rate cut - an average of 43 basis points over the next 12 months and 15 basis points over the next 18 months.
Instead, the
yield curve typically has to
invert (when long - term
bond yields fall below short - term
yields) in order to presage a recession.
When the economy is transitioning from expansion to slower development and even recession,
yields on longer - maturity
bonds tend to fall and
yields on shorter - term securities likely rise,
inverting a normal
yield curve into a flat
yield curve.
An
inverted or down - sloped
yield curve suggests
yields on longer - term
bonds may continue to fall, corresponding to periods of economic recession.
The increasing onset of demand for longer - maturity
bonds and the lack of demand for shorter - term securities lead to higher prices but lower
yields on longer - maturity
bonds, and lower prices but higher
yields on shorter - term securities, further
inverting a down - sloped
yield curve.
With corporate
bond yields falling, the private sector
yield curve has
inverted.
The reason why an
inverted yield curve is predictive of economic weakness is that long - term
bond investors will settle for lower
yields if they start to believe the economy will slow or decline in the future.