Those looking for clear recession signals in Canada and Australia have them. Portions of the Canadian and Australian yield curves are now inverted. Canada has been in a state of inversion for at least four weeks.

Canadian Yield Curve

In Canada, the entire t-Bill portion of the curve from 1-month to 1-year is inverted with 2-year bonds.

Reader Gary pinged me with the above chart from the Financial Post.

Australia Inversion

I did a quick check on Australia. Here are the numbers from Investing.Com.

• 1-Year: 1.913%
• 2-Year: 1.782%
• 3-Year: 1.749%
• 5-Year: 1.971%
• 10-Year: 2.395%

As you can see, 1-year debt trades at a higher yield than 2- and 3-year debt. 1-year debt is very close to inversion with 5-year debt.

Australia 10-Year Bond Yield

Yield on Australia’s 10-year bond is approaching the spike low of 2.236% in March.

Unlucky 25

In December, Fortune Magazine reported Australia Is Going on 25 Years Without a Recession.

Australia has not had a recession since June of 1991. That track record will soon be over. Australia is in recession. All that waits is the official pronouncement.

On January 31, 2015 I proclaimed Canada in Recession, US Will Follow in 2015. That assessment on Canada was accurate.

Time will tell if the US went into recession in 2015. I believe the US did go into recession in December.

Mike “Mish” Shedlock