{"id":76040,"date":"2009-12-11T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/yield-curve-is-the-steepest-its-been-since-1980-amid-flight-to-safety-and-long-term-debt-fears-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-11T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T14:03:00","slug":"yield-curve-is-the-steepest-its-been-since-1980-amid-flight-to-safety-and-long-term-debt-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/76040","title":{"rendered":"Yield Curve Is The Steepest It&#8217;s Been Since 1980 Amid Flight To Safety And Long-Term Debt Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/ftalphaville.ft.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/88491\/a-steeper-path-to-follow\/\">FT Alphaville<\/a>, this may be your chart of the week, as the yield curve is steeper than it&#8217;s been at anytime since 1980, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=atmWh_C.Afkk\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pessimistic interpretation: the short end is near zero due to the flight-to-safety, and the long end is &#8220;elevated&#8221; (though not that high) due to debt fears.<\/p>\n<p>The optimistic interpretation: the short end is near zero due to end of the year hedging issues that don&#8217;t have anything to do with the flight-to-safety and the long end isn&#8217;t that elevated.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b22506d0000000000a10d52\" border=\"0\" alt=\"yield curve\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/yield-curve-is-the-steepest-its-been-since-1980-amid-flight-to-safety-and-long-term-debt-fears-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-t-bill-yields-just-went-negative-2009-11\">Why T-Bill Yields Just Returned To Crisis Levels<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/4KctOBOVI7k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of FT Alphaville, this may be your chart of the week, as the yield curve is steeper than it&#8217;s been at anytime since 1980, according to Bloomberg. The pessimistic interpretation: the short end is near zero due to the flight-to-safety, and the long end is &#8220;elevated&#8221; (though not that high) due to debt fears. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}