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The importance of an inverted yield curve is overrated

Wall Street is obsessed with the game of inversion-watching right now. No wonder. Four months ago, the yield on long-term US Treasury bonds fell below that for short-term ones, creating what is known as an “ inverted yield curve”.

This sparked jitters, given that yield curve inversions preceded “seven of the last seven recessions”, with a lag of “8-60 months”, according to a recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch client note.

Although the curve un-inverted this month, as the yield on 10-year bonds rose, this may not be much comfort. Wall Street lore holds that inverted curves often uninvert right before the downturn hits. Cue more jitters.

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吉蓮•邰蒂

吉蓮•邰蒂(Gillian Tett)擔任英國《金融時報》的助理主編,負責全球金融市場的報導。2009年3月,她榮獲英國出版業年度記者。她1993年加入FT,曾經被派往前蘇聯和歐洲地區工作。1997年,她擔任FT東京分社社長。2003年,她回到倫敦,成爲Lex專欄的副主編。邰蒂在劍橋大學獲得社會人文學博士學位。她會講法語、俄語、日語和波斯語。

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