Sentences with phrase «at narrow spreads»

Investors took more risk because they thought the Fed would protect them, and so they leveraged up on investments at narrow spreads over risk - free investments in order to meet return targets.

Treasury bonds sell at the narrowest spreads (less than 1/2 % or even less), no matter how many bonds or the direction of interest rates.

Not exact matches

In this model, the dealer will buy or sell from investors at a relatively narrow spread, but he has limits on how much risk he'll take.

Stock prices are at record highs, credit spreads are narrow, cap rates in the real estate market are thin, you have Bitcoin and Ethereum going skyward,» said Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi.

Credit spreads have tightened globally, and U.S. credit spreads are at the narrow end of their 17 - year range against government bonds — even after a recent widening.

When yields are too low, and acceptable risk spreads so narrow that top - line interest revenue is increasingly marginalized, then lending is at risk.

While these observations suggest that liquidity conditions may have deteriorated relative to those in 2005 - 06, most observers agree that bid - ask spreads at the time had been unduly narrow owing to market participants» search for yield in the run - up to the crisis (BIS (2005)-RRB-- an environment bearing some similarities with current conditions (BIS (2014)-RRB-.

The decline in issuance was sharper than can be readily explained by seasonality and the fall in housing loan approvals in 2004 and appears to have been driven by a fall in issuer supply rather than investor demand, given that primary spreads have narrowed by at least 5 basis points over the period, to historically low levels.

Fifteen points of P / E separate energy stocks and technology stocks, the narrowest spread between low and high P / E groups in at least three years.

This led to quite a sharp narrowing in the spread in bond yields between the two countries, from around 130 basis points at the time of the previous Statement to a low of 85 basis points in early December.

As you can see the credit spread for JCPenney Bonds at 769 basis points is much «wider» than the spread for Exxon Mobile bonds at 119 basis points (a much «tighter» or «narrow» spread than JCPenny).

European bond markets initially welcomed the deal made at the July summit, although the narrowing of spreads for peripheral bonds over German Bunds was relatively muted, perhaps signaling a measure of skepticism among investors about the ability of the eurozone to survive in the absence of a formal mechanism that ensures the sharing of liabilities among member states.

But the situation is hardly at an extreme — spreads have risen from their lows in January, which was the narrowest in four years.

The spread between the yields on the 2 - year Treasury note and the 10 - year Treasury note narrowed by 70 basis points from 125 points at the start of 2017 to just 55 points at the end of 2017.

The spread between Australian 10 - year bond yields and comparable US yields narrowed from 250 basis points a year ago to about 100 basis points at present (Graph 30).

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

In Eastern depictions of space, the area most distant from the viewer is spread out as the world expands in the distance, while the area close at hand is narrow and confined.

Quickly take the tea towel off spread your frosting over the sponge, scatter with blueberries is using and at the narrow edge as gently as you can roll the sponge up leaving it seam side down.

Most ring slings on the market are designed in such a way that the fabric at the shoulder and back runs too narrow, or is sewn without pleats, so that it can not spread out generously across the back for weight distribution.

Flowers with greater male success in spreading pollen and siring seeds across a flower patch tended toward longer and narrower petals, Zhou reported June 26 at the Evolution 2017 meeting.

It flows faster when it was younger and the course is narrower: at the end of all things time has spread and slowed, lik oil spilled on a still pond.

Since her marriage to Edward Swift, three years after the sudden death of her first husband Horace Torrington, Charlotte had changed her position at the breakfast table in order to accommodate her new husband's needs: specifically, aiding him in the spreading of toast and cutting of meat, owing to his having suffered the loss of his left arm at the age of twenty - three in an unfortunate encounter with the narrow wheels of a speeding gig, out of which he had fallen on the driveway of his then home in County Wicklow.

Valuation Informed Indexing narrows the spread at a slight reduction in the median balance (the middle values).

Credit spreads have tightened globally, and U.S. credit spreads are at the narrow end of their 17 - year range against government bonds — even after a recent widening.

For example, there would normally be a pronounced widening of credit spreads at or before a bull market top, but credit spreads remain near their narrowest levels of the past 10 years.

John Miller, fund manager and co-head of fixed income at Nuveen, says that the funds» performance is driven not so much by duration or yield - curve positioning, but more by yield, credit selection and bonds that have the opportunity for credit spreads to narrow over time.

By contrast, the spread can run around a dollar at times for ETFs that venture into narrower market segments with shares costing less than $ 50.

The savvy investor who bought in 1992 and has held to 1997 has an excess spread of 21.25 % (5 years at 425 bps) and an appreciation from spread narrowing of 6.9 % for a total outperformance of 28.2 % versus Canada's over five years.

i.e. the spread of model their model outcomes is too narrow and doesn't encompass the real world range -RCB-, This is where scientific judgment comes in — some people are better at pattern recognition and meaningful correlation than others.

The 17 statistical contributions have a smaller median, at 4.3 million square kilometers, and narrower spread, with quartiles of 4.1 and 4.6 million square kilometers.

A summary of the HPPI: Owners are still estimating their homes at higher values than the appraisal, although the spread is now slightly narrower.

Despite the fact that investors pushed back on aggressively priced properties, the spread between asking and closing prices narrowed by two basis points, and now stands at about 26 basis points, Feeney says.

Regardless, there are many catalysts: a tight labor market, wage growth picking up, a stock market at or near record highs, housing values rising quickly, high commercial real estate prices, low cap rates and narrow credit spreads.