The Women of Color Empowerment Scholarship winner walks to the podium to receive her award. On Friday, May 13, Student Outreach Services at Western Washington University held the 18th-annual Women of Color Empowerment Dinner and Silent Auction.
What are the different formations of yield curves? There are three main different formations of yield curves: normal, inverted and flat yield curves. The yield curve describes the shapes of the term structures of interest rates and their respective times to maturity in years. The time to maturity is located on the x-axis, whereas the yield to maturity is located on the y-axis of the graph.
Yield curves are the flattest in a decade, and itâs no coincidence that about 10 years ago marked the start of an 18-month recession. The yield curve has proven a reliable indicator of impending economic slumps when it inverts, and short rates exceed longer-term yields. Lacy Hunt, chief economist at Hoisington Investment Management, sees a good chance of an inverted curve as soon as a year from now if the Fed continues to shrink its balance sheet.