Long - term treasuries will likely still work
as ballast when it matters most (global risk - off events), but we see short - term U.S. debt now offering compelling income, along with a healthy buffer against the risk of further interest rate rises.
Not exact matches
When large - scale beer concerns buy craft brewers like
Ballast Point and Lagunitas, sales of their ales are no longer deemed «craft» — though they are often still marketed and stocked
as a craft brewer.
The fossa is
as agile
as a squirrel, he said, using its luxuriant tail for
ballast and balance
when leaping from branch to branch.
Scientists are also investigating why outbreaks of exotic organisms have been reported only in the past 20 years,
when water has been used
as ballast for more than a century.
Accidental introductions of non-native species has been of increasing concern since the 1980s
when human - mediated transportation, mainly related to ships»
ballast water, was recognised
as a major route by which species are transported and spread.
Article 8.5 will also present some broad guidelines for
when to convert
ballast to stocks
as market gyrations unfold during implementation of your Mindful Bucket Investing Plan for the «old» investor.
The approach of using cash for
ballast now and bonds for
ballast when interest rates rise, does not completely address the advantages of cash
as a reserve for short term expenditures and investment opportunities.
When intermediate bonds yields become measurably better than cash, say about 4 %, it is probably time to reconsider using bonds
as ballast instead of cash.
So, another way to decide
when to switch to bonds
as ballast might be
when the current bond yield is a percentage point or two above the current and expected rate of inflation.
By this time little transports were coming with supplies on a haphazard schedule, and
when the Clipper ship Aranzaya arrived in 1795, she brought three workmen and the necessary timber to build a fort at
Ballast Point, or
as it was known at that time, Point Guijarros.
I was sort of surprised
when in the early 90s the Jewel food chain in the Chicago area went on the gov's Green Lights program, got a low interest loan to change all their conventional tube lights to ones with reflectors and electronic
ballasts (reducing lighting electricity by 3/4 & saving the food chain $ 1 million per year, paying off the loan within the 1st year), that they didn't use that
as a marketing strategy: «Jewel cares about the Earth!»