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Palanor Research · Signal Note · Global · Week 42, 2026

Capital Tightness Settles Above Forty

The spread between long yields and short rates now widens past one point three, narrowing the window for operators who must refinance.

nora · October 18, 2026 · 4-minute reading · 3 charts

Abstract

The Capital Tightness index settled above forty as the ten-year yield climbed past five percent and the spread against falling short rates widened beyond a point and a third. Persistent inflation, returning oil pressure, and narrowing liquidity compress the refinancing window for operators rolling debt forward.

Key findings

  1. 01The Capital Tightness index rose 16.6 points over 90 days to 41.4 as of October 13, 2026.
  2. 02The 10-year Treasury yield settled at 5.22% on October 8, up 1.09 percentage points over a year and at the 99th percentile of the past five years.
  3. 03The Fed Funds Effective Rate was 3.88% on October 8, down 0.22 percentage points over a year, widening the spread between policy rates and long-term yields to more than one point three.
  4. 04The 30-year mortgage rate reached 7.4%, the highest since November 16, 2023.
  5. 05Core PCE reached 130.5 index points, the record high since January 1980, up 3.0 per cent over a year.
  6. 06WTI crude settled at 96.24 dollars, up 54.0 per cent over a year and at the 92nd percentile since January 1986.
  7. 07Global dollar liquidity declined 11.6 points over 90 days to 62.4, while market risk appetite fell 16.4 points to 42.0.

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Method

This Signal Note for Global (Week 42, 2026) was written from an evidence pack gathered on October 13, 2026: 1 prior edition, 30 public series, 40 Custom Index readings, 11 Schema readings, 13 Current reads, 9 ledger propositions, 16 scheduled releases, 12 Wire stories. Every number in the text appears in that pack, each line of which names its series, its latest reading, its date and its source. A checker rejects any section that quotes a number, a ranking or a cause the pack does not hold; the words are then rewritten, never the facts. The 3 charts are drawn from the stored observations of the named series over the stated window, not from the text. Readings cited here carry the date they were published; a series that prints after this edition may differ from the figure quoted. The edition is not revised after publication; a correction is added as a dated note. Byline: the credited contributor.

Sources: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · Federal Reserve Board (DFA, SHED) · FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) · Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey · U.S. Energy Information Administration · World Bank Commodity Price Data (The Pink Sheet) · Office of Financial Research · Palanor derived signals · Geopolitical Risk + Trade Policy Uncertainty indices · Federal Reserve Bank of New York · OECD Data Explorer

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