Sentences with phrase «benchmark bond»

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

Between September 30, 2016 and September 29, 2017, the 10 - year Government of Canada benchmark bond yield rose from 1 % to 2.1 %.

Contrast that with the first half of last year, when benchmark bonds priced between 110 and 173 basis points more than swaps, and fluctuated by as much as 35 basis points from deal to deal.

Their profit margins are roughly measured by the difference between mortgage rates and the banks» own costs of borrowing, which is approximated by the Bank of Canada's five - year benchmark bond rate — about 1.2 %.

Prices on the government's benchmark bonds due 2033 climbed to 117.6 cents on the dollar while yields on local - law bonds due 2017 declined to 6.38 percent.

They triggered a surge in benchmark bond yields that spilled over across asset classes and regions.

This group of flexible bond funds, by themselves, had an average return of 36.2 % in 2009, whereas benchmark bond component BND had a return of 6.03 %.

Government of Canadas benchmark bond yield is a good place to start if you are looking for a fixed rate mortgage.

Timing is anyone's guess, but I would suspect two auctions — in November 2005 and February 2006 — in order to give the new benchmark bond sufficient liquidity.

Spreads for benchmark bonds started the year at 88 - 95 basis points more than swaps.

Government of Canada 5 years benchmark bond yield reached an eleven weeks high (1.47 %)

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Enter the value factor As we noted in our November Investment Directions, in periods of rising interest rates and benchmark bond rates, value has tended to outperform.

LONDON, May 1 - The gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields was a shade off its widest level in nearly three decades on Tuesday as the economic and monetary policy outlooks of the United States and euro zone start to take different paths.

LONDON, May 1 - The gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields was a shade off its widest level in nearly three decades on Tuesday as the economic and monetary policy outlooks of the two regions start to take different paths.

Stocks plunged again in Japan, and the interest rate on the benchmark bond fell below zero.

Similarly, it's making fee cuts to its benchmark bond - market ETF.

As a benchmark bond fund, I used Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND).

Since last November the difference between Government of Canada 5 year benchmark bond yields and posted rate (qualifying rate) have never been so high.

For instance, the yield on the five - year Government of Canada benchmark bond was 2.33 per cent on Thursday, down from 2.58 per cent on May 2 (the first business day of the month), according to data on the Bank of Canada's website.

This fund is designed to provide the opposite return of the Government of Canada 10 - year bond over a single trading day, which means you lose if the benchmark bond moves up in price and you win if it falls.

The «all - in» interest rates that borrowers pay have dropped even further and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac cut their «credit spreads,» which is the difference between the all - in rate and the benchmark bond yield.

Excluding three outliers, benchmark bonds — meaning those with 10 - year terms and the highest possible ratings — have priced in a relatively tight band between 88 and 98 basis points more than swaps.

Its benchmark bonds priced at a spread of 90 basis points more than swaps.

At their tightest, benchmark bonds (those with 10 - year lives and the highest possible ratings) were printing at spreads of less than 25 basis points more than swaps.