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What Moves the Yield Curve
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By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Name four forces that can move the yield curve.
- Explain how heavier government borrowing can influence long yields and bond prices.
- Explain bond vigilantes and fiscal dominance in plain language.
- Trace a curve move into borrowing costs, GIC rates, bond funds or stock valuations.
- Separate what a curve move shows from what it does not prove.
5 parts · about 40 minutes
- 1Four forces: expectations, and the borrower itself
- 2One famous week: the UK, autumn 2022, from scratch
- 3The labels and the fence: vigilantes, fiscal dominance, and where readings come from
- 4What a curve move touches: your loans, your funds, your stocks
- 5Interpretation, not prediction: the exercise, then What Moves the Yield Curve in one page + a quick check
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