fed: ARM's are on their way back
- 07/02/07 02:36 AM
I'm going to take a moment to get technical and talk about the yield curve on US Government bonds, bills and notes; specifically, I'm going to address what an inverted yield curve is and why it's important to you.The yield curve is a graph that plots yields (that's an interest-rate adjusted return on a bond) vs. maturity length for the bonds that the U.S. Government issues when it borrows money.Here's a peek at the yield curve as reported by yahoo's finance site this morning: Not very exciting, as curves go. It's almost flat -- it shows that the market expects about the … (1 comments)
fed: Why you're more in touch with real inflation than the Fed
- 06/21/07 01:21 AM
Today the Philadelphia Fed will release its monthly index of the economy, and it's widely expected to continue to support the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates where they are (the Fed rate hasn't been changed since June of 2006.) One key benchmark that they'll take into account is the "Core CPI," or the core consumer price index -- intended to give an accurate measurement of the consumer's experience of inflation in his or her life -- released last week at the lower-than-expected level of 0.1% for the month of May.That's a nice, low figure.But your gut may be telling you … (0 comments)
I'm going to take a moment to get technical and talk about the yield curve on US Government bonds, bills and notes; specifically, I'm going to address what an inverted yield curve is and why it's important to you.The yield curve is a graph that plots yields (that's an interest-rate adjusted return on a bond) vs. maturity length for the bonds that the U.S. Government issues when it borrows money.Here's a peek at the yield curve as reported by yahoo's finance site this morning:
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