Sentences with phrase «as bonds get»

As bonds get pulled lower the spread between them and stocks widen.

However, as the bonds get riskier, the interest rate generally increases to compensate investors for the gamble.

Bonds of that particular nature I described above are called vanilla bonds, because vanilla is the most simple / basic flavour of ice cream and this is as simple as bonds get.

Bonds mostly have finite maturities; time can work against the short seller as the bond gets closer to maturity, because the bond will mature at par, and he will have to pay the par value.

Not exact matches

«It was really impactful; you get so caught up in the day - to - day so it was really nice to be outside the office and to see your co-workers working together to achieve a collective goal... we're a stronger team when we work together and do these things, it bonds us at work and there's definitely an appetite to do more as a team.»

They get preoccupied with all sorts of things — elections, central bank policies, the weather — but nothing has dominated investor thinking as much lately as bond rates and income stocks.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

As to whether so - called bond vigilantes will get tired of waiting for the Fed, Rosenberg said, «The bond markets can't overreact because they are waiting for a signal from the Fed.»

But if, as a business owner, you haven't at least considered getting your team to together for a midday meal from time to time, you're missing out on a seriously good opportunity to spark conversations, build bonds and get their creative juices flowing.

Shenfeld thinks the loonie will stay around par, but could get as high as US$ 1.04 in 2013, thanks to continuing demand for Canadian - dollar bonds from foreign countries.

However, in the spring of 2013, high - yielding stocks, which were basically trading as bond alternatives, got crushed.

The respond with, «okay, that's what I thought, but my guy is telling me that's pretty generic as its is 99/100 everywhere, and he thinks he could get the bonds at 99.5».

A seeker of sexual pleasure, he explains, can get married or fornicate on the side — just as a seeker of financial gain can profit from an Islamic sukuk or a conventional bond.

Bonds get their «tax - free» status because the money raised by the bond issue is usually for a «public good or service» such as schools or roads.

This high - yield, or junk, bond market has been getting a lot of attention lately as credit spreads have blown out.

The high - grade bond market is springing back to life as corporations race to issue new debt and get out in front of a possible Fed interest rate hike.

What you are told is what you get (admittedly, also as inelegant mantra), an extension of a lesson our mother ingrained in us as a youth that your word is your bond.

That will have massive implications for all capital markets, as bonds will bounce, the dollar rally will stall in its tracks and equities could get a second wind due to a less aggressive Fed.

Bond now is risky as the FED is toying increase interest rate, and you'd get stuck with a 5 year CD, of course when you get multimillions, it's really doesn't matter.

Stay the course and keep buying VTSAX on the cheap and at the same time adjust your asset allocation slowly into bonds as you get older.

But as investors bid up bond prices, the yields come down e.g. $ 10 dividend payment on a $ 100 bond = 10 % dividend yield, but if the bond gets bid up to $ 200, the dividend yield is only 5 %.

Getting the ISDA to classify the bond swap as a «credit event» enables holdouts to collect default insurance from their counterparties.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

If you try to redeem your bond to take advantage of rising rates you won't get as much for it.

The earnings yield on enormous blue - chip stocks such as Wal - Mart, which had little chance to grow at historical rates due to sheer size, was a paltry 2.54 % compared to the 5.49 % you could get holding long - term Treasury bonds.

As I have covered previously, when you own an individual bond, you invest for a set period of time and get paid interest for the duration or maturity length of the bond.

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand for equities, all...

As we get further along in the business cycle, I tend to keep the maturities in my corporate bond exposure a little shorter than I would earlier in the cycle.

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand...

I have to admit that as I've gotten older that I've tried to simplify my investments to the point that it's basically the Vanguard Total Stock Market Fund and the Vanguard Total Bond Market.

His theory has been distilled by others and spread widely to the public as something akin to the following: An investment portfolio should be a balance between publicly - traded stocks and bonds, starting with a ratio of 70:30, transitioning away from stocks and into bonds as the investor gets older.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

Some Canadian governments are getting in on the action as well, with Ontario issuing its third green bond in Feb. 2017, raising $ 800 million

In addition, cities, states, and taxpayers have concerns about the costs of bonds and borrowing, how to get the best return on banked or invested public money, and an interest in finding innovative ways to fund public spending without surrendering public control, as is often the case with public - private partnerships.

As the VIX increases, investors get nervous, pushing them to sell equities in favour of bonds and the Canadian dollar in favour of the greenback.

But as newer bond holdings would get added to the index at the now higher interest rates as older bonds matured the performance would play catch - up.

The target date fund naturally adjusts your investment allocation between stocks and bonds as you get closer to retirement so you don't have to do much (except keep putting money in!).

In the larger financial industry, who gets to keep the difference between a historic 8 % return on equities, an «equity - like return», and a historic 4 % return on «risk free» investments, such as government bonds?

«When a judge sets a bond that is so high that you have to plead guilty to get out of jail,» with as much media attention as the Cruz case received, «they can do it to anyone,» Kimok said.

As I get older, I will increase my bond holdings as that is typically a less volatile investmenAs I get older, I will increase my bond holdings as that is typically a less volatile investmenas that is typically a less volatile investment.

By plugging different blends of stocks and bonds (as well as different spending rates) into this retirement income calculator, you can get a good sense of which mix is right for you.

Of course, if you hold individual bonds to maturity, you may be able to ride out price fluctuations, knowing that as long as the bond issuer doesn't default, you will get your principal back at maturity and interest payments along the way.

Many people put more of their investments into bonds as they get older because bonds are traditionally more stable than stocks.

Even as you get older, you'll still want to hold some stocks to protect your wealth from inflation and lower returns on bonds.

Existing bonds or bond fund values, however, will drop as interest rates rise because investors can get higher rates on newly issued bonds.

We don't want to have too much money in bonds in brokerage because the interests gets taxed as ordinary income.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

AXL also recently issued $ 200MM its 2019 bonds, which gives some indication that the company can get bond investors to refinance existing debt as needed.

Bond funds become particularly problematic when rates get really low, as hot money comes flooding into the asset class — and when rates eventually rise and the hot money leaves — long term investors will be left with losses they can't simply wait out to become whole again.

Bonds are not meant as the get - rich - quick investment but more the protect - my - future investment.