Getty Images/iStockphoto An inverted yield curve does not mean the end of the road for stocks.An inverted yield curve may not be a dreaded harbinger of doom for the bull market, according to Ryan Detrick, senior market strategist at LPL Research, who believes that stocks have awhile to go before worrying about unseemly yield curves or even a recession. In an economically ideal world, long-term interest rates stay in their designated lane and maintain a certain gap above short-term rates with the twain never meeting. Yet, they do intersect once in a while and even invert in times of uncertainty. An inverted yield curve, where long-term yields such as the 10-year Treasury yield drop below their shorter-term peers, symbolizes a lack of confidence in the economy. It has also emerged as a closely watched early warning signal for economic trouble, particularly in the wake of research from the San Francisco Federal Reserve that every U.S. recession in the past 60 years was preceded by an inverted yield curve.via