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The S&P Short Term AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index has seen its weighted average yield remain fairly steady and has recorded a modestly down June so far of -0.11 %.

The S&P Short Term AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index has seen its weighted average yield remain fairly steady and has recorded a modestly down June so far of Read more -LSB-...]

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Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to remain sanguine.»

While investors appear more convinced that the Federal Reserve (Fed) will indeed hike rates later this year, real yields remain well below where they started the year and even further below their long - term average.

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.

While spreads between yields on highly - rated corporate bonds and government bonds have remained above their historical averages, this continues to reflect strong demand for Commonwealth Government bonds rather than concerns about corporate credit quality.

The average rental yield during the first quarter of 2014 remained 5.34 per cent for Dubai apartments and 4.58 per cent for Dubai villas.

Nonetheless, at around 65 basis points, the slope of the yield curve remains below its medium - term average (Graph 67).

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

An alternative, and perhaps more likely, interpretation is that the market expects that the target cash rate will remain below its average over recent years for some time, and this expectation is reflected in bond yields.

By itself, this below - average spread might normally be taken to imply slightly tighter - than - average conditions, although a more likely interpretation is that bond yields have been held down by offshore bond - market developments reflecting expectations that short - term interest rates around the world will remain below average for some time.

Fixed lending rates on housing and business loans have also risen over recent months in response to higher bond yields, although they too remain below the average of the past decade.

While the combination of rapid credit growth and below - average interest rates suggests that financial conditions remain expansionary, the slope of the yield curve, as measured by the spread between the yield on 10 - year bonds and the cash rate, suggests a somewhat different picture.

As of last week, market conditions remained characterized by a syndrome of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield conditions that have historically been hostile for stocks, on average.

In Strategic Total Return, we continue to carry an average duration of about 3 years in Treasuries, where the prospect of further credit strains remains favorable for Treasuries, but where yields are already so depressed that small upward blips in yield can quickly wipe out a year or two of prospective interest.

Bonds are near historically low yields, yet stocks remain priced slightly below their long - term average P / E multiple.

Yields available on high - quality securities continue to remain low but are somewhat offset by increases in average investment balances.

In 2017 alone, however, 11 people were killed by Hindu extremists in connection to claims of the slaughter or sale of cows, and average milk yields remain well below international standards.

If the funding diverted per ESA student were less than $ 6,453, then the average funding per student who remains in public school would rise — yielding a net positive impact.

I have used the RMD values along with an estimated inflation rate to determine a desired average portfolio yield such that at the end of some period, say ten RMD years, the remaining portfolio has the same purchasing power as in the start.

The remaining stocks are then assigned a rank based on their yield (the higher the yield the higher the rank), payout ratio (the lower the payout ratio the higher the rank), 3 year dividend growth rate, and 5/10 year Dividend Acceleration / Deceleration (5 - year average increase divided by 10 - year average increase).

To be clear, relative to the 60 + year average of around 6 %, 10 - year Treasury yields are still likely to remain low.

Outlier years like 1999, and 2011 will occur occasionally, but, on average, you're better served buying Cheap stocks, and remaining cautious during periods when the median stock in the market offers a historically low yield, like right now.

But the sector remains on my radar, as I suspect it's now close to a consolidation point where a dividend / yield - driven REIT business model takes over (average large - cap dividend yield's now only 2.2 %), which could trigger a new wave of investor sentiment & demand.

With the rally in Bund yields, already cheap German property valuations and an increase in SRE's average rent per sqm from EUR 4.13 to EUR 4.18 I'd expect the valuation to remain at least steady.

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