91.   Savings banks and other businesses that thrive off a steep interest rate yield curve have performed very well.

92.   Selling only the longer life securities will extended the Argentine sovereign debt yield curve, stacking more long-term debt at one end, the ministry said.

93.   Small-cap financial stocks are also very interesting, because they have about four times the sensitivity to a steeper yield curve than large-cap financials.

94.   Some governments, seeking to develop debt markets, are extending their domestic fixed-rate yield curves by issuing longer dated notes and bonds on a regular basis.

95.   That gap, dubbed the yield curve, is a sort of barometer for what bond investors and traders expect from the economy in the next year or two.

96.   That causes the yield curve, or line connecting short-term and long-term yields together, to flatten, suggesting investors think rates will rise soon.

97.   That is causing the yield curve to flatten, he said, meaning the differential between long- and short-term rates is shrinking.

98.   That may mean short rates will continue to fall faster than long rates, steepening the yield curve.

99.   That is called an inverted yield curve.

100.   Take a look at the yield curve and relax.