Searches on Google for “inverted yield curve” have spiked after the unusual bond market phenomenon presented itself last week for the first time in over 12 years and helped tank Wall Street amid chatter that an economic downturn was imminent. As it happens, that abnormal bond market dynamic often precedes U.S. recessions, and when it appeared last Wednesday for the first time since 2007, it rattled investors worried that a U.S.-China trade war might kill both a record-long economic expansion and a decade-long bull market for stocks. U.S. web searches for “inverted yield curve” are on track in August for their highest month on record, and more than double the next highest month December 2005, according to Google’s Google Trends analysis tool https://ift.tt/2HdT8M4.

source https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inverted-searches-obscure-financial-term-110000127.html?.tsrc=rss