The Bond Market’s Favorite Recession Signal Is on the Fritz

The bond market hasn’t rung false recession alarms for this long in at least half a century.

By Monday, it will be three full years since the market’s movements started suggesting a US downturn was on the horizon. That’s when 3-month Treasury yields first pushed above 10-year ones — inverting the yield curve — as traders anticipated the Federal Reserve’s steep interest-rate hikes would stall the economy.

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