The central bank will have to either join foreign sellers of US debt in sending interest rates higher (in the hopes of giving the dollar some footing and allowing high rates to encourage the return of real buyers) or ramp up the printing presses to keep the long end of the yield curve from spiking.
Currently, the Treasury yield curve ranges from 0.11% for 3-month T-bills, to 2.85% for 30-year T-bonds.
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And those alternatives represent the key for CIOs to modernize their infrastructure to match the performance needs of tomorrow while also bending the spending curve away from low-value clutter to high-value innovation.
As lower costs encourage firms to produce more at any given price (ie, the supply curve shifts from S1 to S2 in the chart), the long-term equilibrium level of output will rise and the price level will fall.
At the same time, on the internal side, CIOs must be primarily concerned with bending the IT budget curve away from low-value legacy infrastructure and toward new technologies that liberate precious funding for innovation, because those rapidly emerging marketplace realities touched on above will simply overwhelm traditional systems and traditional IT approaches.
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Boosting adherence, bending the cost curve and shifting from treatment to prevention will require dramatic shifts in patient behavior.
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We could certainly get used it over time, as it's more of a nuisance than anything, but it's definitely increases the learning curve and detracts from enjoying the instrument.
Curve Studios, transformed from a punk rock club in the early 1990s, now showcases the work of a dozen or so artists.
After the S-shape curve of the country from north to south, Artisans of Leisure's private, custom Vietnam for Foodies tours take in cultural and gustatory attractions along the way.
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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Tim Probert, president of global business lines, says that horizontal drilling, a process in which a well is drilled down vertically and then angled around a curve to reach reservoirs from a horizontal angle that increases the well's exposure, is now 55% of Halliburton's total activity.
Investors will be forced to move with it or they, too, may suffer from chasing the curve.
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Laffer-curve effects might well result from a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate, which would bring money stranded abroad back home to be taxed.
Because agencies are strictly prohibited from using a curve to distribute the highest ratings, the best are being furloughed at the same rate as the burn-outs.
In the 1890s, when he was a doctoral student, Swiss economist Pareto found that the distribution of wealth and income in France deviated from the bell curve in a unique way.
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For example, in an ingenious argument, he shows that the chief effect of an inverted yield curve is to shift leadership from growth companies to value firms that benefit from the free availability of bank loans.
While the yield curve may sound like a wonkish concept reserved only for professional bond traders, retail investors can now profit from flattening and steepening in the curve, too.
Major banks like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America are long sufferers from the flat yield curve curse.
And CMS reported yesterday that the cost curve is actually bending up, from 6.1 percent to 6.3 percent, post-health care legislation.
"As India's economy opens up more and it rides on a growth curve, we will have travelers from different parts of the world, " he adds.
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If you sweat a lot, neither coconut water or typical sports drinks will have enough sodium, potassium or sugar to keep you from falling behind the curve.
From its big French curve front fenders and shield-like radiator grill to its bomb-shaped headlights to its long back deck and tail lights on graceful stalks, in its humble way the '36 is as much a work of art as the Cord 810 or the Duesenberg SJ.
Aside from the lost income to the agency, the client also suffers a loss by needing to go through a learning curve with a new agency aside from the two to three months it typically takes to go through the process of a properly managed agency review.
In other words, a flat yield curve has the potential to chase investors from equities into bonds.
Warren, however, believes the 26-year-old Londoner can only benefit from such a steep learning curve in what will be only his 15th fight.
This is also the point in time where there is no longer an opportunity to make money from rolling down the yield curve.
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Its steep learning curve is not something to shy away from -- much like learning a foreign language, once immersed in the game play, players will pick up the necessary skills along the way.
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