Shrinking spread

Marketplace

News, Business

4.6 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Government bond yields are typically lower than corporate ones, since corporations can’t print their own money. The difference between the two is called a spread, and that spread has narrowed in recent months. In this episode, why that shrinking spread is a sign that investors feel optimistic. Plus: Retailers struggle with excess brick-and-mortar space, nationwide household net worth hits a record high and Vermont ski areas battle climate change.

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1:33.3	It is Monday, today's 16 December.
1:36.2	Good as always to have you along, everybody.
1:38.0	The big calendar item this week, of course, amid various and sundry data releases, November
1:42.9	retail sales, and an update on inflation among them.
1:46.2	The biggie is the Fed meeting tomorrow and Wednesday.
1:49.7	Expectations are for another quarter percentage point cut, along with some wait and see language from Chair Powell.
1:56.5	But even though the Fed has been cutting rates, something else entirely has been going on in the bond market.
2:04.5	Over the past couple of months, yields on 10-year government bonds have been going up.
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