Our expectation that the US yield curve will “bear steepen” might seem strange given its behaviour ahead of recent major Fed tightening cycles. After all, in three of the last four, the spread between 10-year and 2-year Treasuries shrank in the 18 months before the first hike, and we forecast the next one is about that far away.
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