Sentences with phrase «while bonds have»

Bond Markets While bonds have produced good returns in 2012, it is discouraging to look at current yields and consider a potential challenges ahead.

While bonds have a fixed interest rate, real interest rates are constantly changing.

Since bottoming out in March 2009 in the wake of the financial crisis, the stock market has gained an annualized 19 %, while bonds have returned 4 % a year.

Not exact matches

So far this year, not a single bond from an emerging nation has defaulted, while 2015 saw just one, an issue from Ukraine, go bust, according to Moody's Investors Service.

Although last year was favorable for developing countries, investors remember the painful «taper tantrum» that ensued several years ago, when the Fed signaled it would begin pulling back on its massive bond purchases that kept rates low while injecting liquidity in markets.

Bonds, he says, will return 1 % to 2 % at most, while stocks, which have become more volatile of late, will return between 6 % and 8 %.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

While market turmoil has led investors to safety in the form of Treasurys and muni bonds, the outlook for the tax - exempt market is murky.

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

While the Rolex Submariner has become synonymous with Bond's early adventures, the first timepiece he actually wore on - screen was the Gruen «Precision.»

Others have noted that if the Fed continues raising short - term rates while long - term rates remain stalled, it could turn the shape of the bond yield curve upside down, a typical signal of recession.

While Venezuela has kept current on its bond payments, it has paid some coupons late, leading ratings agencies to declare a selective default and keeping creditors guessing.

While Gross wouldn't disclose how many WeWork companies would actually qualify for Bond Street loans, he says that the number is «meaningful.»

While in office, he had a private screening of «Dr. No» and in a documentary called «Everything or Nothing,» JFK is quoted saying, «I wish I had had James Bond on my staff.»

While Bond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hysteBond King Bill Gross, founder of world's largest bond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hystebond fund PIMCO, is going deep into California and New York munis, claiming the returns are still the best in the market despite the headline risk, even the discussion of bankruptcy as a bargaining chip has caused some to fear bond market hystebond market hysteria.

While most winemakers focus on the quality of the grapes and the effect that soil and weather conditions have had on each year's harvest, Lee and his partners — Mardonn Chua (who like Lee has a biotech background) and Josh Decolongon (a sommelier)-- view the creation of wine as a chemistry experiment, bonding a combination of amino acids, sugars, ethanol and other elements together.

Back in October, the big story was not just that equity markets were selling off while bonds were rallying, but that inflation expectations had completely fallen off a cliff.

U.S. long - term rates would spike, while investors in Canada would rush to the domestic fixed - income market, setting off a bond rally that would push Canadian yields down «substantially,» said Burleton.

Loyalty was and is still central to the Bond strategic vision (it's right there in the name), but Macdonald and his senior team were increasingly taking the company into customer experience and live brand events, for example, while Maritz in the U.S. had chosen a more conservative path, staying focused on sales services.

Bonds yields have fallen as safe assets attract more interest, while U.S. crude oil futures have also fallen further below $ 39 a barrel.

While U.S. savings bonds have lost popularity as a means of long - term savings due to the low interest rates they currently earn, some retirees have been holding on to bonds that were issued when rates were higher.

While the lack of independent economic cycles argues against too strong of a conclusion, stock - bond correlations have tended to co-move with inflation and monetary conditions.

Yet while the Fed has eased policy to lower joblessness and raise inflation in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 recession, central banks such as the BoE have also launched accommodative bond - buying programs despite higher - than - desired inflation rates.

That would make REITs less attractive to investors relative to bonds, while raising the cost of their debts — cutting into profits.

While a nine - month extension at a reduced pace is viable under current rules, another move could require more creativity as the ECB would be running low on German bonds to buy.

They created a custom three - piece bulletproof suit that shields while looking so sharp and slick, James Bond would be jealous.

«Stocks certainly look more attractive than bonds, but the case for stocks versus other asset classes is less clear... «So while returns may compress from the outsized gains we have seen over the last several years, we remain constructive on equities.

Having a higher weighting in bonds and a lower weighting in stocks has, in the past, lowered the volatility in your portfolio while also providing some downside protection against large losses.

Investors have been pouring money into bond funds this year while losing interest in bank products.

If you aren't currently investing (hoarding cash for a while because you don't know what to do with it) and have no interest in following the stock and bond market, then investing with a robo advisor is a good value proposition.

While stocks are riskier than bonds or cash investments, they have much higher returns over the long run and many issue dividends on top of this.

While government bonds currently produce little in the way of income, government bonds have been providing a hedge against equity risk.

I've been waiting to build a large bond portfolio for a while and am surprised the 10 - year yield is surging to ~ 2 %.

Because while past performance does not guarantee future results, stocks have historically had larger price swings than bonds or cash.

While some have turned to high yield bonds, preferred stocks have been mostly overlooked.

Bond yields are down slightly, credit spreads have remained well behaved while widening subtly, and there has been limited flight to traditional perceived safe havens like the U.S. dollar or gold.

Should the yield curve steepen, with 10 - year bond yields moving above 2 % while short - term rates are anchored near zero, it would imply that a longer term inflation fear is re-entering the market.

At that time, the 10 - year Treasury bond had a duration of just 6 years (due to the very high coupon payments and yield - to - maturity available), while the S&P 500 had an extraordinarily low duration of just 16 years.

Imagine that this year, the large - cap portion of her portfolio has declined, and small caps lost even more, while bonds produced smaller losses.

Meanwhile, bond investors should brace for a flattening Treasury curve, with 10 - year rates likely to tick higher, while the 30 - year rate dips to 2 % late in 2018, which would be its lowest level since the financial crisis.

China's one - year sovereign bond yield has climbed 14 basis points since the devaluation, while the cost to insure the nation's debt against default jumped to a two - year high.

While she expected that bond yields might not fall too much near term as managers would need to allocate some funds to cash bonds, swaps and futures would likely remain under pressure.

While bond credit ratings and relative yield can compensate an investor for the relative risk of companies to make good on their debts, the recent past has shown this is not always the case.

While fixed - income ETFs had net inflows on the whole, the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (LQD) and the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) were at or near the top of the outflows list.

Bonds have traditionally always had a place in retirement portfolios because they provide a reliably steady source of income while securing the invested capital with...

Kevin Werbach, a business professor who has written extensively on the subject, said that while gamification could be a force for good in the gig economy — for example, by creating bonds among workers who do not share a physical space — there was a danger of abuse.

Traders have pulled more than $ 1.8 billion from two junk - focused ETFs just in the past week: the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond -LRB-- $ 1.06 billion, most of any ETF) and the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond -LRB--765.4 million, the second most), while also redeeming $ 577.4 million (the fourth most) from the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Bond ETF, according to FactSet and ETF.com.

So while these «fallen angel» bonds have the potential to be intrinsically higher quality than debt originally issued at the junk or high - yield level, undue structural selling pressure from the downgrade can cause them to sell at a discount.

While it decided not to, the Fed did say it expected «further gradual» rate increases would be justified — and there's broad consensus that it will raise rates (which can affect the amount banks charge borrowers, as well as interest paid on bonds) at least three times this year.

Since 2007, U.S. equity mutual funds and exchange traded funds have suffered net outflows to the tune of $ 250 billion while close to $ 1.6 trillion have flowed into bond funds — wow.