Daily changes in the US 10 Year Treasury rates are the blue bars while the red line is the 14-day cumulative change in rates: 23bp decrease. For the blue bars, it is unusual to have changes of greater than 0.10 in a single day and 0.20 is VERY unusual.
The Fed did increase the Fed Funds rates by 75bp on July 27. While 10-year rates were unchanged this past week, short-term 1-year rates increased 18bp.
The Yield Curve for short terms remains steep while the longer term (5+ years) is INVERTED. Could we be in for a short-term period of stagflation? It will take at least 12 months for the Energy Prices to “fall” out of the CPI 12-month rolling calc. In the meantime, we can have a slowing economy with higher interest rates while the Fed fights inflation. This is what an inverted yield curve is pointing to.
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