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Financial markets tensions and breakeven inflation
The behaviour of long bond yields and breakeven inflation calculated from TIPS yields suggests that market participants are worried about the outlook for inflation. Stefan Gerlach examines how much weight should be attached to breakeven inflation as a measure of expected inflation and whether it provides clean signals.