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Likewise, the difference between the yields on short-term loans between banks and United States government notes also grew.
The difference between the yields on 30-year Fannie Mae mortgage bonds and ultra-safe Treasury bills widened.
A positive sign in the fixed-income market is the spread, or difference, between the yields on Treasury securities and both investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds.
Since October, the difference between the yields on such bonds and comparable Treasuries — a measure of the risk investors perceive in corporate debt — has fallen to about 4.3percentt, from 5.7percentt.
So if a nominal bond has a yield of 4% and a real one a yield of 1%, investors in the nominal bond are being paid 3% as compensation for the risk of inflation.This "break-even" inflation rate the difference between the yields on normal and inflation-protected bonds is actually a product of three main factors.
So far that has not come to pass: expectations for American inflation over the next ten years, as measured by the difference between the yields on normal and inflation-protected bonds, dropped to 2.4% on April 16th, the lowest level since November.
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The difference between those yields, the so-called "break-even inflation rate," is the inflation rate at which the two bonds earn the same return.
Interest-rate spreads (the difference between the yield on corporate and Treasury bonds) have widened sharply.
The first chart shows the difference between the yield on two-year Treasuries and the Federal Reserve's target rate for federal funds — the rate on loans between banks.
They profit from the difference between the yield on their loans and their cost of deposits; during the last 18 months, that gap has grown larger.
The difference between the yield on long-term debt guaranteed by Fannie Mae and that of similar Treasury debt rose to its largest level in more than 20 years, providing a new sign of the nervousness that has affected financial markets.
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