Assertion: yield curve | /r/HasProperty | inverted
Facets:
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: during this period
type: TEMPORAL
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Sometimes, the yield curve may be inverted or negative, meaning that short-term Treasury yields are higher than long-term yields.
text: The July 2000 yield curve (red line, top) is inverted.
text: During this period the yield curve was typically inverted, reflecting the fact that deflation made current cash flows less valuable than future cash flows.
text: When the yield curve is inverted, banks are often caught paying more on short-term deposits (or other forms of short-term wholesale funding) than they are making on new long-term loans leading to a loss of profitability and reluctance to lend resulting in a credit crunch.
text: In the latter half of the 19th century and into the earliest years of the 20th century, before the creation of the Federal Reserve Bank, it was normal for the yield curve to be inverted.
text: One of the most popular methods of measuring the yield curve is to use the spread between the yields of ten-year Treasuries and two-year Treasuries to determine if the yield curve is inverted.
text: This chart from the St. Louis Fed shows the spread between the 10-year and two-year Treasuries--the peaks are periods when the yield curve was steepest, while the dips below the zero line indicate that the yield curve was inverted.
text: so the yield curve is inverted.