French Bond Trouble + What in the Yield Curve? = a Dry Canal.

[upbeat music] It has been a while since we had a Griffonomics segment as part of Talking Returns.

We are talking yield curve.

It does sound like something from a Pilates class, uh, or something perhaps from the field.

Uh-

Mm-hmm

... obviously, you know, we're in cropping season at the moment, uh-

Yeah, the yield on crops, yeah

... harvest is, harvest is underway.

Um, but I understand it's one of the most watched, um, signals in finance

It is, and it's a very, very simple measurement of, of interest rates.

Hmm

Uh, yield meaning interest, interest meaning yield.

Uh, the, the, the yield you get from putting your capital into a particular investment, what's the return you're getting on it?

And so are these yield curves, are they done by banks? Are they done by governments? Are they done by...

Like who, who is, who is doing yield curves?

Well, Anna, I whipped three together for you this morning

Oh, I love a yield curve.

[laughs]

And, and, uh, and so...

Well, a- anybody, uh, who's, uh...

Well, economists are looking at them

Mm

They would...

Economists would have colleagues and staff that would be p- you know, preparing these and maintaining them, watching, you know, basically 24/7 yield curves are changing, i- in general terms in the bond market, for example.

But everybody who's listening to this could go onto the website of their favorite bank or even their least favorite bank

[upbeat music] It has been a while since we had a Griffonomics segment as part of Talking Returns.

We are talking yield curve.

It does sound like something from a Pilates class, uh, or something perhaps from the field.

Uh-

Mm-hmm

... obviously, you know, we're in cropping season at the moment, uh-

Yeah, the yield on crops, yeah

... harvest is, harvest is underway.

Um, but I understand it's one of the most watched, um, signals in finance

It is, and it's a very, very simple measurement of, of interest rates.

Hmm

Uh, yield meaning interest, interest meaning yield.

Uh, the, the, the yield you get from putting your capital into a particular investment, what's the return you're getting on it?

And so are these yield curves, are they done by banks? Are they done by governments? Are they done by...

Like who, who is, who is doing yield curves?

Well, Anna, I whipped three together for you this morning

Oh, I love a yield curve.

[laughs]

And, and, uh, and so...

Well, a- anybody, uh, who's, uh...

Well, economists are looking at them

Mm

They would...

Economists would have colleagues and staff that would be p- you know, preparing these and maintaining them, watching, you know, basically 24/7 yield curves are changing, i- in general terms in the bond market, for example.

But everybody who's listening to this could go onto the website of their favorite bank or even their least favorite bank