European contagion and municipal credit concerns have sparked a flight to quality in the treasury market pushing the 5-30-year curve out to 313bps.
They need to curve out niches for their services and products.
Even if the Brawn development curve turns out to be gentler than others, it looks set to be competing at or near the front for the remainder of the season.
These days, the best network comedies are too good for viewers to grade newcomers on a curve, out of gratitude for a bit of representation, a slice of the power pie.
"There was a huge learning curve of figuring out where we could shoot and when, " Mr. Fleischner said.
Institutions are also nervous, as very short-term T-bill rates have spiked, therefore causing the yield curve to flatten out.
Along this retail gauntlet of cosmetics, alcoholic beverages and designer handbags, storefronts curve in and out of the concourse, and merchandise seems to spill out, as at no other airport.
The real Phillips curve, it turned out, should have shown not an indirect relationship between inflation and unemployment, but a direct one.
Williams, who mixes his 95-mph fastball with a change-up and curve, has struck out 45 and walked just six in 52 innings.
"The quality has gone down, " says Brown, who runs the hedge fund Second Curve Capital and dishes out barbs on his Web site, Bankstocks.com.
At the same time, yields across the US Treasury curve are also breaking out across all three of my key investment durations (Trade, Trend and Tail).
Yield on U.S. debt is just below 2% for the 10 year and likely to fall lower once the Fed starts buying long dated bonds to flatten out the curve.
All these crises are alike in that the bankers play the yield curve and push money out to doubtful borrowers in order to get maximum advantage of the spread between the cost of borrowing short term and lending long term.
While Apple is well known for not disclosing what it is going to do this does seem to put to rest the company moving down the price point curve and not coming out with a lower quality, less feature rich smartphone.
It allows you to take advantage of the ups and the downs of the market, smoothing out the cost curve.
"He's certainly having fun, " she says, as her husband, who's never driven anything faster than the family car before this, fishtails out of a curve and accelerates down the backstretch.
China may be pushing oil prices up, but it is also importing lots of other goods from the rest of the world: it has shifted out the demand curve in developed economies.
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Round a curve I scared the hell out of a flock of feral goats, and at one point, came over a rise to see the road just drop off into a slalom down to a mangrove-studded beach.
However, just the anticipation of additional quantitative easing and still lower long-term interest rates has already potentially begun to pump up the next bubbles, as investors have moved out the risk curve in an effort to find higher rates of return.
With both the learning curve and team-bonding risks out of the way, such a team can focus single-mindedly on the task at hand.
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There have been many recent recommendations to extend out along the yield curve given the municipal yield curve is approaching historic highs (401 bps 1-30yrs ).
The flows into risk-free assets by central banks and private investors has plunged returns on these assets into negative territory, and pushed investors out along the risk curve into assets that are close substitutes to risk-free assets (such as investment grade U.S. corporate bonds).
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Those on the left (and yes, I have met some who do this) who flat out deny that the Laffer Curve has any meaning at all are wrong.
When savings rates rise, but savers hoard, rather than invest, the central bank pushes its newly created money out of short-run credit markets and out into the whole yield curve.
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Now check out TVA's "fundability curve, " which illustrates how the startup stacked up relative to its age and market position.
What I'm trying to do is figure out how do we bend the curve of costs so that we're getting more and more efficient care, higher-quality care, at less cost per person?
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Any rational assessment of innovation would see these companies rise and fall as their existing products go up the maturity curve and their labs and design teams figure out which markets are ripe for which new products.
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