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7 guides in Finabase Learn
- How markets react to economic data: surprises, regimes, revisions Why stocks, bonds and the dollar move on the gap between data and forecasts, why good news can be bad news, and how revisions and positioning change the reaction.
- Stagflation An economy suffering high inflation, weak or negative growth and rising unemployment at the same time, as the US did in the 1970s.
- The yield curve: shapes, slopes and what each end tells you How the Treasury yield curve is built, why it slopes up, flattens or inverts, what the short and long ends reflect, and how to read it with real 1960–2026 data.
- Treasury yield The annual return investors earn for lending to the US government at a given maturity, the benchmark that most other interest rates are priced from.
- Unemployment rate The share of the labor force that is jobless, available and actively looking for work, published monthly for the US by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- Yield curve A line plotting Treasury yields across maturities, from months to 30 years, whose slope reflects rate expectations and is read as an economic signal.
- Yield curve inversion: what it signals and its recession record What an inverted yield curve is, why it has preceded US recessions, its full track record since 1966 including the 2022–2024 inversion, and 10y–3m versus 10y–2y.
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