Investors have sold stocks on nervousness surrounding the inverted yield curve. No inversion this large has occurred since 2007, right before the 2008 financial crisis. But don’t indiscriminatel ...

On Friday, stock investors caught a whiff ... But a round of dour economic data from Europe actually pushed the measure into inverted territory. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note tumbled ...

but past experience suggests the trend is not always a reliable omen for the country’s stock market. An “inverted yield curve” — when short-term government bonds offer higher returns than ...