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Bond buyers are expecting an increasingly more darkish panorama for the U.S. financial system amid world expansion headwinds, upper rates of interest and the possible for a full-blown industry conflict. Against that backdrop, the yield curve’s slope, measured through the unfold between short-dated and long-dated yields, are last in on a so-called inversion. That is…

A slide in long-dated Treasury yields Wednesday helped to flatten the yield curve, narrowing the unfold between the 2-year notice and the 10-year notice to its tightest since August 2007. A narrowing unfold between yields for short-dated bonds and their long-dated friends has a tendency to sign buyers’ fears over the financial system’s well being.…

Bond Report: Treasury yield curve flattest in more than decade as rate hike expectations heat up

Short-dated Treasury yields rose while long-dated yields were mostly flat on Friday, extending the flattening trend seen this week, as investors braced for higher interest rates from the Federal Reserve after an inflation report and minutes from the central bank’s last policy meeting. What are yields doing? The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note <span c... MarketWatch.com – Top…