Sentences with phrase «narrow yield curve»

Under current conditions (record earnings and a narrow yield curve) profits have grown an average of just 2.1 % annually over the next three years.

Wein Views Byron Wein shares his thoughts in Barron's about indicators that could disrupt the economy, including the narrow yield curve, the Fed's interest rate moves, and an exogenous event such as military conflict.

Janet Yellen and other members of the Board of Governors may want to raise rates, but the narrow yield curve shows markets continue to push rates down.

Not exact matches

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

The yield curve may also be narrowing over concerns that a boost to fiscal policy through tax cuts and an increase to spending caps may foreshorten the U.S.'s second - longest economic expansion.

The spread between the two - year note yield and the 10 - year note yield, a widely - watched measure of the yield curve, narrowed to 42.8 basis points, the tightest since September 2007.

Over the past year, the bond yield curve has been positive but flattening (short - term yields remained lower than long - term yields, but the differential has narrowed).

As the yield curve flattens, I would expect this spread to continue to narrow.

The broader implications of steepening yield curves globally go way beyond the narrow technicalities of the altered scope of ECB or BoJ quantitative easing (QE).

John Miller, fund manager and co-head of fixed income at Nuveen, says that the funds» performance is driven not so much by duration or yield - curve positioning, but more by yield, credit selection and bonds that have the opportunity for credit spreads to narrow over time.

As shown in the following chart: A review of all 80 rolling 15 - year periods and all 75 rolling 20 - year periods yields similar results, with a gradually narrowing bell curve of data points coalescing around a fairly static average number.