Whether you invest in stocks, bonds, or fixed-income assets, understanding the bond yield curve can help you improve your portfolio's performance.

You can calculate yield by dividing the coupon interest rate by a bond’s current price in the secondary market: Yield = Annual Coupon / Bond Price. A yield curve is plotted on an X/Y axis.

That’s keeping yields on the longer end of the curve higher than they otherwise might be. Right now, the yield on the 10-year Treasury is 4.233%. It has fallen from 4.467% at the start of the month.

A yield curve is a graph on which bonds are represented by plotted points. A bond’s Y-axis position represents its interest (coupon) rate, and its X-axis position represents its term.

Yield curves are generally upward sloping (normal) where long-term bonds have higher yields than short-term ones. On occasion, they can invert, which can be a sign of an impending economic recession .

The two-year yield on Thursday jumped six basis points, to 3.85%. That's 38 basis points above the 30-year Treasury yield of about 3.47%, and is the most inverted the two bonds have been since 2000.

Bond market yield curves remain inverted – but that's no longer worth worrying about, according to Goldman Sachs. Drew Angerer/Getty Images 2023-02-09T16:33:49Z ...

Yield curve inversions happen when short-term interest rates rise above long-term interest rates. Inversions usually convey the bond market’s expectations for an economic slowdown or possible ...

The yield curve is inverted, ... The bond market has been a get-out-of-jail-free card. ... current income is by far the single most important driver of household spending.

That indicator is called the yield curve, and it’s a way of showing how interest rates on various U.S. government bonds compare, notably three-month bills, and two-year and 10-year Treasury notes.

The yield curve between the two-year and 10-year Indian government bonds is likely to invert, on the back of worsening liquidity deficit in India's banking system and bets of continued rate hikes ...