Sentences with phrase «at a high yield of»

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 29 billion in seven - year notes at a high yield of 2.952 percent on Wednesday.

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 35 billion in five - year notes at a high yield of 2.837 percent on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

«We believe UST yield will not sustainably go higher than 3 percent,» said Handy Yunianto, head of fixed income research at Mandiri Sekuritas.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

The German 10 - year Bund yield ended at 0.84 percent last Friday, down from Thursday's high of nearly 1 percent, following robust U.S. employment data.

If mortgage interest rates were higher, paying down this debt would make more sense, but with rates at about 4 percent, investing that money could yield a higher rate of return.

Frank Del Rio, president and CEO of Norwegian, cited four main reasons for revising its guidance, including «continued weak demand from our core North American consumer for European sailings at a time when half of our fleet is deployed in the region, including eight of our highest yielding ships.»

Investors have been selling Treasurys this month — pushing yields higher — amid expectations of rising inflation, which could prompt the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy at a faster pace.

The yield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Novyield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of NovYield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.

Since bottoming below zero (an «inverted» yield curve) back at the beginning of this year, the combination of higher five year yields and BoC rate cuts have sent this yield spread higher.

The bid - to - cover was 2.70, while 11.57 percent of the bonds were bought at high yield.

If true, this should accelerate upward momentum of Treasury yields and the U.S. dollar — currently at a 14 - year high — which could dampen gold's chances of repeating the rally we saw in the first half of this year.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

For example, if you invested in a five - year CD earning 2 percent annually, and the penalty is six months of interest if you withdraw early, you only need to stay in the CD for at least a year to match the 1 percent of a high - yield savings account.

In the European market, the oil sector has a high dividend yield of about 6 percent — the highest there is — which adds up to real value, says Nick Nelson, head of global and European equity strategy at UBS.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

«The extra reward you get in the form of higher yields from stretching on maturity will come back to haunt you should inflation trend upwards faster than expected,» said financial advisor Manisha Thakor, director of wealth strategies for women at The BAM Alliance.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

It could be because of various socioeconomic factors, but most say it would be at the point where the Fed raises interest rates too high and the yield curve inverts.

Over time, more and more of the fund could become invested at this new higher yield level, resulting in rising distributions of income.

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

While many high - yield interest checking accounts require you to make dozens of monthly debit card purchases in order to earn any interest, Radius Hybrid earns 0.85 % APY on deposits of at least $ 2,500.00 or more.

As a result, its current yield is also higher at about 4.7 % despite its slightly shorter duration of 12.8.

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

Prior to Aozora Bank, he was at Morgan Stanley for ten years, from 1994 to 2004, most recently as Managing Director and head of high - yield and distressed principal investing in Japan and non-Japan Asia.

Into the afternoon, US equities fluctuated either side of unchanged, and the 10 - year yield ticked up to touch its overnight high at 3.033 %.

With Group of Seven (G7) sovereign bond yields at historically low levels, some income - seeking investors have turned to higher - volatility securities like dividend - paying stocks in an attempt to capture additional income.

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.

Mark Vaselkiv, portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, noted that «Einstein said there were three great forces of nature: gravity, electro magnetism, and compounded interest... high yield is an asset class that ultimately capitalizes on the latter.

These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.

With rates at historic lows, many investors have used high - dividend stocks, rather than low - yielding bonds, in pursuit of income.

We invest in countries around the world at all levels of the capital structure — from debt (first lien bank debt, second lien loans and high yield bonds) to undervalued equity.

At Bear, Stearns & Co., Mr. Abbott served as a Vice President in Financial Analytics & Structured Transactions (F.A.S.T) where he structured and reverse engineered complex CDO transactions, secured by a wide range of debt products, including high yield bonds, senior secured leverage loans, trust preferred bank loans, RMBS as well as other esoteric receivables.

Thus far in 2015, the performance of the Dogs of the Dow has not been particularly inspiring, with the 10 highest - yielding Dow components at the start of the year up 5.0 % in February, versus a 5.7 % increase in the overall Dow and a 6.1 % jump in the remaining 20 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Christina Padgett, head of leveraged finance at Moody's Investors Service, said liquidity concerns are not a major problem for the high - yield portion of the market now, but there are challenges for the future.

At the beginning of 2016, U.S. high yield spreads were among the widest versus investment grade since the financial crisis.

My dividend strategy is a hybrid of high yield and dividend growth designed to deliver high current income with dividend growth at a portfolio yield of ~ 7 %.

This has left the company with a dividend yield that is also toward the high end of its historical range, at a recent 4.3 %.

As a reminder, each year's Dog pack is made up of the 10 highest yielding Dow stocks at the close of the previous year.

High - yield bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to matuyield bonds represented by the Bloomberg Barclays High Yield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to matuYield 2 % Issuer Capped Index, comprising issues that have at least $ 150 million par value outstanding, a maximum credit rating of Ba1 or BB + (including defaulted issues) and at least one year to maturity.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

Among them are factors I've discussed at length elsewhere — a weaker U.S. dollar, a steadily flattening yield curve, heightened market volatility, overvalued U.S. stocks, expectations of higher inflation, trade war jitters, geopolitical risks and more.

Although a total of $ 800,000 in real estate crowdfunding sounds like a lot, I view it as buying a $ 800,000 portfolio of 12 + different properties across the country at much lower valuations and much higher net rental yields compared to having $ 2,740,000 in one very expensive rental property in San Francisco that is now at risk of depreciating due to declining rents and new tax legislation that limits mortgage interest deduction and SALT deduction.

Business cycle risk High yield issuers typically have riskier business strategies and more leveraged balance sheets, exposing them to greater risk of default at times of a downturn in business conditions.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

Global monetary policy remains broadly accommodative — and in some areas more and more so — propelling equity markets ever higher and leaving a record amount of sovereign debt around the world (almost US$ 12 trillion by midyear) yielding at or below zero (source: Fitch Ratings, as of 6/29/2016).

High yield (non-investment grade) bonds are from issuers that are considered to be at greater risk of not paying interest and / or returning principal at maturity.