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A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and ...
JAMES CARON Clients and investors inevitably say that a yield curve inversion spells a recession, but looking at...
MALCOLM WOOD![]()
if those [people] are holders of government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they ha...
BILL GROSS For those not very loaned up, a flattening yield curve could start crunching their margins.
ALAN ROWE It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will in...
CHRIS TURNER Yield is a big problem for us.
IDRIS JALA If nothing else, a flat-to-inverted Treasury yield curve is the financial market's way of telling po...
JOHN LONSKI When you have a treasury yield curve invert by at least 50 basis points for a six-month duration we ...
JOHN LONSKI The curve inversion is just a temporary phenomenon. It cannot last as the Fed raises rates.
YASUTOSHI NAGAI I see no reason why we should not see a similarly benign inflation outcome this year,
WILLIAM POOLE I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield ...
KENNETH FISHER At the same time, the yield curve is flat and actually has the potential to invert. An inverted yiel...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM![]()
I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.
BEN BERNANKE The yield curve is a really powerful indicator. It always has been. The shape of the curve still mat...
CHRISTOPHER LOW The ECB has signaled that if there was any risk inflation expectations would run away, they would co...
KORNELIUS PURPS While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%...
DAVID ADER We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job und...
DAVID KEMP If the election period passes smoothly and the inflation picture remains benign, further easing is n...
BEAT SIEGENTHALER Inflation is just not a problem in this economy.
CLYDE PRESTOWITZ![]()
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter.
JEANETTE CORON It's a good move. It flattens the yield curve and brings long-term rates down.
BILL HORNBARGER The shorter end of the U.S. yield curve is holding a fairly nice firm tone.
MICHAEL BOSS The whole game now is just playing the yield curve.
DAVID HENDLER As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good but it may not be a good rul...
DORSEY FARR Its a realization that although consumer inflation has been benign, we always have these fears lurki...
ANTON PIL People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN ROSE People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN DE ROSE The entire movement in yield has been accounted for by a change in inflation expectations.
DAVID GOLDMAN One item not to get under any circumstances whatsoever is Jessica Simpson's Daisy Dukes.
KATRINA SZISH We don't see inflation shooting up because of what has happened in the labor market. I have a fairly...
AMIT KARA You can't go through a day in America without 9/11 being mentioned. How can you get a fair trial und...
JAMES BROSNAHAN Under those circumstances a further cut in supply is going to lead to a significant price escalation...
HENRY LEE Due to the prolonged flatness to slight inversion in the yield curve, the company is focused on stab...
JAY SIDHU People are starting to become weary of the inversion in the U.S. curve and in particular the yields ...
ENRIQUE ALVAREZ the best we can get under these circumstances.
TOM DASCHLE Under those circumstances, most major companies won't require that you sign anything other than endo...
JAMES WALSH A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market's view that the Fed as being les...
CARLOS BORROMEO Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations c...
HOWARD ARCHER The trend of the flattening of the yield curve will continue. The short- end yield is going up becau...
MARTIN BRUNI A hawkish tone is already priced into the markets, both in the yield curve and on the currency. It w...
JACK SPITZ Under normal circumstances, those talks could have violated antitrust provisions. Those kinds of dis...
DAVID SANDMAN We're seeing liquidation of the 30-year sector to jump back into the two-year sector. Looking at the...
SEAN MURPHY Get them a life jacket too. You get in those turbulent waters and you get swept under.
GUY CABLES It works out for you under certain circumstances but not all the time.
KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM![]()
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a rel...
MARK TWAIN The five-year notes became cheaper against the 10-year bonds on the yield curve.
AKIHIKO INOUE Operating with a flat yield-curve environment is tough on every bank, but Wells is positioned well c...
FRED CANNON One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the c...
SARAH DESSEN So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swin...
JOHN PODESTA We've prepared the same as we have every week. We just try to get better with each game. The more bi...
BOB HOWARD To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON It's about as good as you can expect a mayor to do under the current fiscal circumstances. He should...
FRANK BRACONI To lose a son under those circumstances--a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a bu...
BRIAN JONES Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circum...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the ...
DON ALEXANDER It's not a big problem.
GAO FENG We're in an almost perfect environment: low inflation, strong corporate profits and a benign Fed. It...
JAMES PIZZO There is a very flat yield curve globally for different reasons, even in some emerging markets. I re...
BRAD SETSER He could start construction, but no one starts under those circumstances. The remedy of the law is y...
LARRY PRICE Aspirin is not a benign drug.
JAMES STEIN It could be a problem for those people who are still trapped under the wreckage.
JANUSZ JONCZYK I'm hopeful that we're nearing the end of this series of tightening. I don't think we have a serious...
ALAN SKRAINKA Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to ...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relati...
DENNIS DYKES![]()
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL![]()
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL![]()
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you ...
WES CRAVEN![]()
Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the ag...
JANET RENO Normally a missing person is not a case for this office, but she is missing under suspicious circums...
BERNIE WEISENFELD The bond market is still behind the inflation curve. The inflation story continues to chip away at o...
JACK ABLIN![]()
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN If under these circumstances the F.O.M.C. is prepared to keep going, then this means that the commit...
EDWARD MCKELVEY![]()
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER The flattening of the yield curve during the past year has made it challenging to increase net inter...
CHARLES DOLEZAL The inverted yield curve, which sent the stock market reeling yesterday, made gold one of the few sa...
GEORGE GERO![]()
The market is not focused on imbalances, but rather interest rates and in the US right now they are ...
DAVID GILMORE They (IMF) will be very concerned with the upsurge of inflation. The other problem will be that the ...
ERIC BLOCH With a single digit equity market return, a flat yield curve and the weak funding status of many pen...
IAN MARKHAM![]()
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.
BRUCE DICKINSON The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think ...
LARA RHAME![]()
I think the message in this inverted yield curve is muddled. I think it is something to watch and to...
MARK ZANDI I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a mar...
CHUCK ROBB We don't have any inflation problem. The CPI was a one-time aberration.
BRUCE STEINBERG It probably doesn't mean we don't see another rate increase, but it suggests that the Fed is not beh...
GARY THAYER For those claiming that inflation is right around the corner, they can point to this number and say,...
GORDON RICHARDS If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
PAT TOOMEY We are on a joy ride but we have got to be very careful. We have got benign inflation, but we have a...
MANDLA MALEKA It's much better than expected on the margins front and treasury staged a rebound despite a flat yie...
ISMAEL PILI![]()
A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond str...
BILL GROSS![]()
Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time...
DEYTH BANGER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Higher inflation will mean weaker consumer demand and that will keep core inflation under control.
JACQUES CAILLOUX Bonds at these yield levels offer very little value. Inflation is low but it's not that low to justi...
EDGAR PETERS He hasn't pitched in a week and I wanted to get him as much work as I could before spring break. He ...
JAY HARPER It's a huge home run under the circumstances the last couple of days, with what my mom went through....
CRAIG BIGGIO The yield curve is flat and typically when that happens, banks are reluctant to lend money and the e...
MICHAEL CHEAH
JAMES CARON Clients and investors inevitably say that a yield curve inversion spells a recession, but looking at...
MALCOLM WOOD
if those [people] are holders of government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they ha... BILL GROSS For those not very loaned up, a flattening yield curve could start crunching their margins.
ALAN ROWE It's been foreigners looking for yield that has driven the U.S. curve to flatten. The market will in...
CHRIS TURNER Yield is a big problem for us.
IDRIS JALA If nothing else, a flat-to-inverted Treasury yield curve is the financial market's way of telling po...
JOHN LONSKI When you have a treasury yield curve invert by at least 50 basis points for a six-month duration we ...
JOHN LONSKI The curve inversion is just a temporary phenomenon. It cannot last as the Fed raises rates.
YASUTOSHI NAGAI I see no reason why we should not see a similarly benign inflation outcome this year,
WILLIAM POOLE I never liked quantitative easing. It's misunderstood by almost everybody. Flattening the yield ...
KENNETH FISHER At the same time, the yield curve is flat and actually has the potential to invert. An inverted yiel...
HARVEY ROSENBLUM
I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown. BEN BERNANKE The yield curve is a really powerful indicator. It always has been. The shape of the curve still mat...
CHRISTOPHER LOW The ECB has signaled that if there was any risk inflation expectations would run away, they would co...
KORNELIUS PURPS While the curve has moved to flat as a pancake to a bit inverted and yields open the year near 4.38%...
DAVID ADER We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job und...
DAVID KEMP If the election period passes smoothly and the inflation picture remains benign, further easing is n...
BEAT SIEGENTHALER Inflation is just not a problem in this economy.
CLYDE PRESTOWITZ
When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter. JEANETTE CORON It's a good move. It flattens the yield curve and brings long-term rates down.
BILL HORNBARGER The shorter end of the U.S. yield curve is holding a fairly nice firm tone.
MICHAEL BOSS The whole game now is just playing the yield curve.
DAVID HENDLER As a forecasting rule of thumb, the yield curve has been pretty good but it may not be a good rul...
DORSEY FARR Its a realization that although consumer inflation has been benign, we always have these fears lurki...
ANTON PIL People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN ROSE People are thinking he's going to drive funds higher than is currently priced into the market. He's ...
ALAN DE ROSE The entire movement in yield has been accounted for by a change in inflation expectations.
DAVID GOLDMAN One item not to get under any circumstances whatsoever is Jessica Simpson's Daisy Dukes.
KATRINA SZISH We don't see inflation shooting up because of what has happened in the labor market. I have a fairly...
AMIT KARA You can't go through a day in America without 9/11 being mentioned. How can you get a fair trial und...
JAMES BROSNAHAN Under those circumstances a further cut in supply is going to lead to a significant price escalation...
HENRY LEE Due to the prolonged flatness to slight inversion in the yield curve, the company is focused on stab...
JAY SIDHU People are starting to become weary of the inversion in the U.S. curve and in particular the yields ...
ENRIQUE ALVAREZ the best we can get under these circumstances.
TOM DASCHLE Under those circumstances, most major companies won't require that you sign anything other than endo...
JAMES WALSH A flattening yield curve typically is indicative of the bond market's view that the Fed as being les...
CARLOS BORROMEO Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore.
ALEX HAMILTON This is still a pretty benign report overall and broadly in line with Bank of England expectations c...
HOWARD ARCHER The trend of the flattening of the yield curve will continue. The short- end yield is going up becau...
MARTIN BRUNI A hawkish tone is already priced into the markets, both in the yield curve and on the currency. It w...
JACK SPITZ Under normal circumstances, those talks could have violated antitrust provisions. Those kinds of dis...
DAVID SANDMAN We're seeing liquidation of the 30-year sector to jump back into the two-year sector. Looking at the...
SEAN MURPHY Get them a life jacket too. You get in those turbulent waters and you get swept under.
GUY CABLES It works out for you under certain circumstances but not all the time.
KRITHI RAMAMRITHAM
Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a rel... MARK TWAIN The five-year notes became cheaper against the 10-year bonds on the yield curve.
AKIHIKO INOUE Operating with a flat yield-curve environment is tough on every bank, but Wells is positioned well c...
FRED CANNON One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS...
You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the c... SARAH DESSEN So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swin...
JOHN PODESTA We've prepared the same as we have every week. We just try to get better with each game. The more bi...
BOB HOWARD To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON It's about as good as you can expect a mayor to do under the current fiscal circumstances. He should...
FRANK BRACONI To lose a son under those circumstances--a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a bu...
BRIAN JONES Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circum...
WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN The inversion of the curve could continue certainly well into the second quarter. It depends on the ...
DON ALEXANDER It's not a big problem.
GAO FENG We're in an almost perfect environment: low inflation, strong corporate profits and a benign Fed. It...
JAMES PIZZO There is a very flat yield curve globally for different reasons, even in some emerging markets. I re...
BRAD SETSER He could start construction, but no one starts under those circumstances. The remedy of the law is y...
LARRY PRICE Aspirin is not a benign drug.
JAMES STEIN It could be a problem for those people who are still trapped under the wreckage.
JANUSZ JONCZYK I'm hopeful that we're nearing the end of this series of tightening. I don't think we have a serious...
ALAN SKRAINKA Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to ...
ELIJAH PARISH LOVEJOY Despite the strong domestic demand, high oil prices and rising food prices, inflation remains relati...
DENNIS DYKES
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances. SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL
A big part of directing is being strong in certain circumstances and taking the gamble and hope you ... WES CRAVEN
Under a death penalty statute that is going to stand up to constitutional muster, you look at the ag... JANET RENO Normally a missing person is not a case for this office, but she is missing under suspicious circums...
BERNIE WEISENFELD The bond market is still behind the inflation curve. The inflation story continues to chip away at o...
JACK ABLIN
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ... JOHN C. CALHOUN If under these circumstances the F.O.M.C. is prepared to keep going, then this means that the commit...
EDWARD MCKELVEY
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER The flattening of the yield curve during the past year has made it challenging to increase net inter...
CHARLES DOLEZAL The inverted yield curve, which sent the stock market reeling yesterday, made gold one of the few sa...
GEORGE GERO
The market is not focused on imbalances, but rather interest rates and in the US right now they are ... DAVID GILMORE They (IMF) will be very concerned with the upsurge of inflation. The other problem will be that the ...
ERIC BLOCH With a single digit equity market return, a flat yield curve and the weak funding status of many pen...
IAN MARKHAM
A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull. BRUCE DICKINSON The market reacted exactly the way they wanted it to, which was to flatten the yield curve. I think ...
LARA RHAME
I think the message in this inverted yield curve is muddled. I think it is something to watch and to... MARK ZANDI I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a mar...
CHUCK ROBB We don't have any inflation problem. The CPI was a one-time aberration.
BRUCE STEINBERG It probably doesn't mean we don't see another rate increase, but it suggests that the Fed is not beh...
GARY THAYER For those claiming that inflation is right around the corner, they can point to this number and say,...
GORDON RICHARDS If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase.
PAT TOOMEY We are on a joy ride but we have got to be very careful. We have got benign inflation, but we have a...
MANDLA MALEKA It's much better than expected on the margins front and treasury staged a rebound despite a flat yie...
ISMAEL PILI
A bullish orientation towards the front-end of the curve therefore should begin to dominate bond str... BILL GROSS
Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time... DEYTH BANGER There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Higher inflation will mean weaker consumer demand and that will keep core inflation under control.
JACQUES CAILLOUX Bonds at these yield levels offer very little value. Inflation is low but it's not that low to justi...
EDGAR PETERS He hasn't pitched in a week and I wanted to get him as much work as I could before spring break. He ...
JAY HARPER It's a huge home run under the circumstances the last couple of days, with what my mom went through....
CRAIG BIGGIO The yield curve is flat and typically when that happens, banks are reluctant to lend money and the e...
MICHAEL CHEAH
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