Date: June 13th, 2005

Primer: yield curve

13 June, 2005 (08:38) | Primer Posts |

Since housing’s price is intimately related to the cost of capital, policymakers and financial analysts frequently reference the yield curve –
 
 
 
– a simple graphic representation of the relationship between interest rate and loan term.
 
Consider a two-dimensional graph:
 

The horizontal axis is loan maturity, starting with very short intervals (one week, or even overnight) at the […]