| 1. | "I don't think a flat yield curve is sustainable ."
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| 2. | "Greenspan thrives on a flat yield curve because it indicates low inflation, " he said.
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| 3. | The stage just before that is a flat yield curve, when the spreads narrow toward zero.
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| 4. | Continued heavy issuance will depend on a combination of sustained lower long-term rates and a flat yield curve.
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| 5. | The sum may not be exact because modified duration assumes a flat yield curve, which is seldom the case.
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| 6. | "A flat yield curve keeps prepayments down, " said Steve Abrahams, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Discover & Co.
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| 7. | "A flat yield curve keeps prepayments down, " said Steve Abrahams, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter Discover & AMP; Co.
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| 8. | "Interest rates, which rose when the pressures began, fell back substantially, leading to a fairly flat yield curve, " it reported in the study.
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| 9. | The Merrill Lynch analyst added that demand for derivatives could fall, and trading inventory could have a higher cost under a flat yield curve.
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| 10. | If there's no increase tomorrow, " the short end will be bought some and we'll have a less flat yield curve, " said Nomura's Miyamura.
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