51.   A series of rate cuts could widen the difference between short and long rates, or yield curve, hurting the performance of auto-loan-backed securities.

52.   A. It would help if we get some upward slope to the yield curve, where short rates are lower than longer-term rates.

53.   According to Gay, the changes in the yield curve have nothing to do with the ease or tightness of monetary policy in Mexico.

54.   According to the yield curve, which compares the returns of bonds of different maturities, such bonds currently offer more return relative to risk than do other bonds.

55.   But even if we get a rate cut, it is not guaranteed that the yield curve will turn positive.

56.   But lately, parts of the yield curve have sloped downward.

57.   By offering a range of bonds, the government would set a benchmark for other Korean borrowers by establishing an international yield curve.

58.   By raising rates, he added, the Fed may invert the yield curve even further with short-term rates escalating while yields on longer-term issues continue to fall.

59.   By working out a string of forward rates for different maturities, a forward yield curve can be derived.

60.   Canelo noted, for example, that the yield curve was flattening, which historically has come as the economy has begun to show signs of slowing.