The yield spread between long-term and short-term Treasury securities is known to be a good predictor of economic activity, particularly of looming recessions. One way to learn more is through a ...

George Athanassakos is a professor of finance and holds the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario Since the start of the year, ...

The predictive power of the yield curve is a widely accepted causal narrative, but history shows that the causal correlation between long and short rates is actually quite weak. While long and short ...

Demand curves are useful for businesses as they provide a visual representation that graphs the relationship between a product or commodity and the amount consumers are willing or able to purchase at ...

THE US yield curve has attracted a lot of attention in the past week as longer-term rates have fallen causing a perversion or inversion of the yield curve and eliciting concerns of a weakening outlook ...