Sentences with phrase «flat curves slow»

Steep curves speed nominal economic activity, and flat curves slow nominal economic activity.

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To some extent, stock market action also implies expectations for slower economic growth, though interest rate signals, such as a flat yield curve, are more suggestive of slow growth than stock market action is, and we've yet to see a substantial widening of credit spreads that would suggest imminent recession.

But by overweighting highly cyclical companies with the global yield curve already so flat, investors must believe that the yield curve has lost all of its ability to signal slower growth ahead.

A flatter curve signals expectations for a slowing economy, and better times ahead for growth stocks, especially larger ones.

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.