flatten the curve

In fact, a rate cut, by flattening the curve, could reinforce the liability problem.

The objective is to flatten the curve as much as possible.

This was also one of the reasons why some commentators believed the Fed should actually be moving to flatten the curve.

"To get banks to lend, we're going to flatten the curve?

Then again, perhaps this vacuuming up of Treasuries will not flatten the curve much at all.

Simply continuing this course, many said, is inadequate to promote the changes needed to flatten the curve of growth - and eventually turn it downward.

"The Fed is right on the cusp of not flattening the curve, but causing an actual downturn," he said.

Czech bond yields ticked higher on the short end, flattening the curve slightly, but showed little reaction to the plans. '

The plan is to flip that around, or at least flatten the curve, so that long-term rates go down, and short-term rates rise.

Then the unpainted wall smashed into his face, flattening the curved nose into a formless pulp.

"That helped flatten the curve."

The duration effect should help to flatten the curve, but more than this it might help to reduce precautionary hoarding of liquidity from banks.

A curve of occlusion formula is used to determine the additional space required to flatten the curve of spee.

Yokoyama said a renewed bid for safety by investors would flatten the curve out to 10 years as investors focused on liquid maturities of 7- to 10-years.

The market thinks inflation may be peaking, so medium- and long-term bond yields are likely to fall in coming months, flattening the curve,' said a trader at a securities firm in Shanghai.

But these positions are in bad shape as the yields of shorter-dated maturities have been rising faster than those of longer-dated bonds in recent sessions, flattening the curve instead, he said.

As he reminds readers in "Gryphon: New and Selected Stories," Baxter knows how to play with a reader's emotions; he knows when to flatten the curve, when to turn up the volume.

US banks are also unlikely to benefit as much as others from rising interest rates, due to the common strategy of using carry trade strategies in an attempt to flatten the curve between short-term and long-term interest rates.

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Restocking of floating storage meanwhile sees further selling into the curve (or the buying of time spreads), flattening the curve out of contango at first — but potentially seeing it revert as storage once again becomes full.

The Ifo definitely flattened the curve significantly because market participants don't see any room for the ECB to change its neutral stance in the direction of cutting rates,' said David Schnautz, fixed income strategist at Commerzbank. '

With near-month crude futures now holding over $90 a barrel, U.S. oil contracts from November 2008 and beyond are now trading in a range from $89 to $85 a barrel, flattening the curve in later months as short-term factors compete to tug front-month prices higher and lower.

Although to date no independent forensic review of ratio decompression as a decompression algorithm has been conducted, in his book Deco for Divers, Mark Powell considers ratio decompression, and analyses it in slightly simplistic "flattening the curve" terms, illustrating it by way of comparison to certain more traditional models.

Occasionally, as the brig yawed and took a sheer to larboard, or starboard, the extra strain flattened the curve, and Ramage could hear the grumbling of the tiller ropes running down to the deck below as the men at the wheel put theLively's helm up or down, to counteract the cable's sudden tug.