Caroline Baum: Fed officials are playing with fire if they deliberately invert the yield curve

The market is not persuaded that the Fed will keep to its agenda of raising rates if it means the yield curve inverts......»»

The yield curve is on the cusp of inverting again, and the Fed is comfortable with the idea that policy accommodation is appropriate......»»

Federal Reserve policy makers are searching for new tools in a crisis, but believing that a flat yield curve can stimulate the economy makes no sense......»»

Stock fall on Thursday as investors shift their focus on the annual Federal Reserve symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyo.,.....»»

A swift steepening of the U.S. 2-year/10-year yield curve after it inverted last week may have given investors hope that the United States can escape recession. They should probably take a breath......»»

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Monday added to a chorus of presidential officials downplaying concerns over a looming recession after the U.S. Treasury yield curve temporarily inverted last week for the first time in 12 years......»»

Distracted by Hong Kong social unrest and focused on yield curve inversions and negative yields worldwide, it is not surprising the 'average joe' investor is missing the real forest fire for the trees. Wit.....»»

The spread between yields on U.S. two-year and 10-year notes, a closely watched metric, is likely to invert for the first time since 2007. That would follow the inversion of another part of the yield curve earlier in the year. Here is what that means......»»

Financial conditions indexes don’t give any advance warning that a recession is coming, so why do Fed officials put so much stock in them? asks Caroline Baum......»»

$BAC, $C, $JPM, $MS, $WFC, $USD, $GBP, $JPY The Fed As the US yield curve is deciding whether to invert/not Invert, investors seek reassurance that we are in a era of non-inflationary growth.....»»

Submitted by Michael Every of RaboBank The US yield curve continues to invert: the 3M-.....»»

A rally by U.S. .....»»

The Federal Reserve’s stunning about-face on rate increases along with weak economic data has left a key part of the U.S. Treasury yield curve close to levels at which the U.S. central bank has in the past been prompted to cut rates......»»

Treasury yields retrace their climb on Monday after speakers from the Federal Reserve appear to open the door to a steeper rate hike trajectory, a move that would flatten the so-called yield curve......»»

AP When the yield curve — the difference between short- and long-term government bond yields — inverts, it has hist.....»»

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Some Federal Reserve officials are laying the groundwork to slow down the Fed’s interest-rate increases if they foresee a bond-market development that has traditionally been a harbinger of recession......»»

Federal Reserve officials are scouring new niches of the financial markets to find signals accurate enough to warn the central bank when it is time to stop hiking interest rates before they risk tipping the economy into a recession......»»

Authored by Doug Kass via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The Yield Curve Will Likely Invert by November, 2018 .....»»