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The yield curve describes the yields for Treasury bills, notes and bonds. It's called a curve because, if it were plotted on a graph, the yields would normally slope up. That's because Treasury bills, which are of short duration, don't usually pay as high a yield as the notes and even longer-term bonds. Why?
Legal Definition of yield. : 1  to produce as return from an expenditure or investment : furnish as profit or interest an account that yields 6 percent. 2  intransitive verb. 3  1 : to give place or precedence (as to one having a superior right or claim)  2 : to relinquish the floor of a legislative assembly yield to the senator from Maine.