by laflammaster
Usually, yields begin to diverge after the convergence, indicating some fuckery aboot- and I’m seeing immediately 3Y diverge extra from 20Y than I’ve seen all through the week.
Bond market, typically, is traded between giant skilled establishments. And it’s a nice sign for a market collapse, when the ‘sensible cash’ determine to drag out of the bond market.
Bonds and bond yields are inverse. The upper the bond worth, the decrease the yield is. The decrease the bond worth, the decrease the yield. The convergence of yields signifies that skilled establishments have been promoting their bonds (on this case Treasuries) for a while now.
There are lots of combos that may come about.
10s2 (fred.stlouisfed.org/collection/T10Y2Y/)
10s3
10s5
10s20
and so forth.
The rationale for 10s2 is that it’s typically accepted as essentially the most constant predictor of a recession.
If you happen to broaden the 10s2 to max from the hyperlink, you will note that each US recession within the historical past of monitoring this information since 1976 was preceed by this indicator going damaging.
- August 1978 –> March 1980 Recession (7 months)
- September 1980 –> August 1981 Recession (12 months)
- December 1988 –> July 1990 Recession (18 months)
- February 2000 –> March 2001 Recession (13 months)
- December 2005 –> December 2007 Recession (24 months)
- August 2019 –> February 2020 (5 months)
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