US recession concerns rise


Among the greatest concerns currently is that the march towards recession seems to be gathering pace, with persistent inversions of the US Treasury yield curve.

Yield curve inversion has mostly presaged a recession; some think that this time, it could be just a sharp slowdown which may be averted by the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates.

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