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Recent cuts in short-term interest rates should help banks, by steepening the yield curve (the difference between long and short rates) and thus boosting the spread they can earn.
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But according to Takuji Aida, an economist at UBS in Japan, long-term yields remained very low because of deflationary expectations, thereby flattening the yield curve (the difference between short- and long-term interest rates).
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Such rates of Greenland ice loss were barely larger than the margin of error in their readings, making it difficult to discern any difference between a supposed loss curve on a graph from a straight line.
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But the Federal Reserve had already started raising short-term interest rates, flattening the yield curve, the difference between short and long rates. (Since banks borrow short and lend long, their margins are higher when the curve is steep.) When this began eating into lenders' profits, they reacted by pushing subprime rates back up.
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The yield curve the difference between long- and short-term interest rates has narrowed as the Federal Reserve has raised official short-term rates.
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Yield curve Generally, the greater the difference between the yield on the 2-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury notes, the more growth the market is pricing into the economy.
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The difference between short- and long-term rates, otherwise known as the yield curve, is close to historic highs, even though long-term rates have fallen remorselessly over recent years.
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For insight into the difference makers in this new environment, we studied the organizations who were ahead of the curve in the patient-centric, accountable, coordinated models that are about to become mainstream.
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And the difference between a machine-made hull and one shaped by Saito is significant: with the right curve, a boat will glide through the sea with less resistance and burn less fuel.
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