One of my favourite tools is that of the Yield Curve, in the US they look at the Treasury Curve and the TED (Treasury/EuroDollar), in Ireland we use the Euribor, and what the curve tells us is the interbank cost of borrowing money, or I should say that is what it represents because it can actually tell so much more. It is a market mechanism that gives an indication of what the belief is in the market towards inflation, interest rates and cost of funding, this isn’t opinion, it is derived from real money flowing around the world and that is why I like it, the Yield Curve doesn’t lie.
So we’ll take a look at what has been happening in the last month.
We see something interesting here, the short term expectation is that rates will remain low, in fact, with deflation still a fear the short-term working money (banks generally run off the 3 month) is getting cheaper of late. The divergence occurs after the 12 month mark, so essentially in …