Market Watch
The Federal Reserve ended its June Federal Open Market Committee meeting on June 28th, and the only change indicated for the foreseeable future is that the Fed sees core inflation as somewhat less of a risk, while overall inflation is still a concern. Interest rates remained on hold at 5.25%, where they have been for a year now, and investors hoping for a rate cut have capitulated. This surrender by bond investors has provided a slightly positive slope to the yield curve, as long term rates are modestly higher than short term rates.
This leads me to believe there may be another way to view the inversion of the yield curve, which happened last year. While many view an inversion of the yield curve as a precursor to recession, historically we have not had a recession every time the yield curve inverts. This last inversion did precede the first quarter economic slowdown of 2007, so perhaps the inversion of the yield curve in 2006 was indicating the mid cycle slowdown which occurred earlier this year. The US economy has been expanding since November of 2001, so based on the length of the last two economic cycles, the first quarter slowdown of 2007...
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