{"id":2541,"date":"2018-04-17T00:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T06:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/?post_type=newsletter&#038;p=2541"},"modified":"2018-05-17T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:22:15","slug":"united-states-s1-2018","status":"publish","type":"newsletter","link":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/report\/united-states-s1-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"An Almost Flattened Yield Curve, Or the Calm Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Economic activity<\/li>\n<li>Demand for cyclical consumer goods<\/li>\n<li>Labor market<\/li>\n<li>Money supply<\/li>\n<li>Monetary policy<\/li>\n<li>Stock market<\/li>\n<li>Inflation<\/li>\n<li>Exchange rate<\/li>\n<li>Yield curve<\/li>\n<li>Bank risk differential<\/li>\n<li>Credit growth<\/li>\n<li>Loan deliquency rate<\/li>\n<li>Public deficit<\/li>\n<li>General outlook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Author<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Diego Santizo<br \/><\/b>Diego Santizo is a student of the Master in Economics of OMMA-UFM. He is an assistant professor of economics in the Faculty of Economics Sciences and the Henry Hazlitt Center. He is also a linguistic advisor in the UFM and in Guatemalan private companies. Before, he was an editor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best GDP growth rate of the past four years is not enough to scare away the ghosts of the recession. The increase in the demand for cyclical consumer goods contrasts with a profound deceleration in the investment of private inventories. After the Federal Reserve increased interest rates to 1.50%, both the effective rate of federal funds and the LIBOR price continues to grow as the IOR increases. The contraction of the QE continues. Inflation remains close to the expectations of US monetary authorities. Even though loan delinquency rates are decreasing and the price of stocks are increasing, the yield curve continues to flatten. The dollar outlook for 2018 is of a currency that depreciates against its largest competitors in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":2559,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"anio":"2018","mes":"January - June","id_estadisticas":"stat-usa-s1-2018","newsletter_link":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/united-states-2018s1-ufm-market-trends.pdf","portada_informe":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/united-states-s1-2018.png","subtitulo":"United States S1 2018 Report","footnotes":""},"tags":[174,26],"class_list":["post-2541","newsletter","type-newsletter","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-174","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newsletter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter\/2541\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trends.ufm.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}