To calculate a gain between any two positive or negative numbers, you're going to have to keep one foot in the magnitude-growth world and the other foot in the volume-growth world. You can lean to one side or the other depending on how you want the result gains to appear, and ...
If the yield curve starts to flatten, looking more like a pancake than a rising ski slope, bond market participants begin to worry. Their concern is that the shape of the curve will invert, with longer-term yields falling below short-term yields. A flattening yield curve can happen when sh...