On Friday, markets were spooked when the yield on the US 3-month treasury bill rose to 2.44% while the 10-year treasury yield moved below it to 2.38%. Since investors normally require higher yields for loaning money over longer terms than shorter, this 'inverted' yield spread signals a belief that the economy is heading south, and central banks will soon move to cut their short-term bank lending rates to prod more borrowing.
Risk-sellers and long-always financial managers don't like to talk much about yield curve inversions because as shown in my partner Cory Venable's chart below