{"id":77126,"date":"2021-02-04T04:11:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77126"},"modified":"2021-02-04T04:01:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T09:01:53","slug":"this-metric-suggests-theres-an-economic-boom-ahead-and-possibly-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2021\/this-metric-suggests-theres-an-economic-boom-ahead-and-possibly-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"This metric suggests there\u2019s an economic boom ahead \u2014 and possibly inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/02\/coronavirus-stimulus-democrats-try-to-pass-1point9-trillion-relief-bill.html\">Washington squabbles over stimulus<\/a>, the bond market is already counting on lots of fiscal spending and an economic bounce back. In an extreme case, inflation might be a risk. The metric the bond market is watching is the Treasury yield curve, or the difference between rates on various maturities, now at its steepest level since May 2017.A steepening curve is typically viewed as a positive sign for the economy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/03\/this-metric-suggests-theres-an-economic-boom-ahead-and-possibly-inflation.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) As Washington squabbles over stimulus, the bond market is already counting on lots of fiscal spending and an economic bounce back. In an extreme case, inflation might be a risk. The metric the bond market is watching is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77127,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77126\/revisions\/77127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}