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Federal Reserve’s rate-hike plans may be exacerbating the risk of a U.S. economic slowdown in 2022, based on bond-market signals

Federal Reserve's rate-hike plans may be exacerbating the risk of a U.S. economic slowdown in 2022, based on bond-market signals

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Just as Federal Reserve policy makers gear up for a likely series of interest rate hikes starting in March, the Treasury market is warning that there may be limits around how far policy makers can go without triggering fears of an impending recession. A day after the Fed’s policy update, the widely followed spread between 2- and 10-year Treasury yields shrank to the narrowest level since November 2020, while the counterpart gap between 5- and 30-years flattened to a level not seen since January 2019, according to Tradeweb data as of 2 p.m.

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