This will steepen the yield curve, give a boost to banks, and therefore growth.

All of those measures are likely to steepen the cost of securing a home mortgage.

The hill was beginning to steepen and his lorry was heavy with Danish thermostatic radiator controls.

Market reaction: Government bond and swap curves could steepen with short-end rates softening as cash pressures ease.

Wildlife ecologists Michael Chamberlain and Brett Collier fear the turkey's existing population decline will steepen this spring.

Steeps If the crack begins to steepen or angle sideways, the position of your hands will change.

The overnight indexed swap curve may bull steepen immediately led by a sharper fall in the front-end.

A fall on Wall Street saw regional bourses steepen losses as the decline spread to all sectors.

A general improvement in nutrition and other home circumstances might tend to 'steepen' the polygon of variation, i.e.

This would put downward pressure on short-term borrowing costs, in this case the two-year yield, and steepen the curve.

The way continued to steepen.

The slide to death was beginning to steepen and he was not, he thought, very far from its end.

Analysts expect the yield curve to steepen early in the week as players may lighten their positions ahead of the sale.

However, the correlation is not direct as it requires the yield curve to steepen and, so far, it is not obliging.

The last rate cut cycle, from 2001 to 2003, caused an inverted curve to steepen dramatically.

The data boosted U.S. Treasury yields, while the improving economic picture has seen the U.S. yield curve steepen in the past week.