Sentences with phrase «bond market point»

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Some in the market have attributed the sharp market swings seen during the downturns in October and December as indicating structural problems with liquidity in the market — and some fingers have been pointed at the proliferation of bond funds.

Since the bond market's «flash crash» back in October — when US 10 - year Treasury yields fell 34 basis points, or 0.34 % in one morning — concerns regarding liquidity and how resilient the bond market might be to shocks have lingered around the market.

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

Powell's comment was pointed to by bond market strategists as a reason for a sudden pop in bond yields.

Liew pointed to China as a convergence play, noting it was the world's second - largest economy, with the third - largest bond market.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

If the market weakens and all bonds are quoted 97.5 / 99.5, the NAV is 98.5, so only down 1 %, but in the real world, if you are a seller you are down at least 1.5 points (from 99 to 97.5).

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

Another point, perhaps, is that it's no worse for the Treasury to print a trillion - dollar gold coin than it is for the Federal Reserve to buy trillions in mortgage securities to save banks and the bond market.

People are worried about bond market liquidity, is the point I'm trying to make here.

Which all goes back to my point — since companies change in a lot of unpredictable ways, it makes more sense for passive income to just ride the market by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time homarket by investing in a Total Domestic Stock Market, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time hoMarket, Total Bond Market, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time hoMarket, and Total International index funds, with allocations that depend on your goals and time horizon.

Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, points out that for a fourth month in a row, foreigners were net sellers of U.S. notes and bonds, dumping $ 13.1 billion in July for a year - to - date total of $ 156 billion.

At this point, we would require at least a strong rally in bonds or a significant improvement in market breadth, both which have stalled lately.

Analysts pointed to a multiple reasons for the selloff in China's bond market.

Gross pointed to the long - term success of the Total Return Fund, while acknowledging the tough year the fund saw in 2011, when it experienced significant net outflows after he bet against the bond market.

From this point forward, even Ben Bernanke knows that aside from some extreme type of measure that the economic effects and the effects on equity markets and bond markets are going to be limited.

As long - term investments, many factors that roil the stock or even broader bond markets don't affect high yield, the panelists pointed out.

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.

Long bonds will end up being a very volatile investment at some point once rates or inflation rise from current levels, but intermediate - term bonds should continue to dampen stock market volatility.

One of the challenges pointed out by many is the fact that the 60/40 portfolio has been juiced over the past 30 + years by the seemingly never - ending bond bull market.

The emergence of green bonds serves as a prime example of the evolving market landscape and points to a future where attractive financial returns and positive societal and environmental outcomes can happen simultaneously.

I've seen a big seller who needed to sell a big position in a junk bond issue force the market down 40 points in order find a level where buyers would step up.

There could be more pain in other sectors of the bond market based on credit quality and maturity, but the point is that bonds were never meant to be long - term return enhancers for your portfolio.

Btw, for those who are skeptical of the bond market, I'd point out that they are usually alot better at it than stock pontificators.

At some point in the next year, the Fed will taper off its bond purchases, As it does that and as the market anticipates that, we're likely to see some big swings in the stock market.

The average market impact cost was 29 basis points (39 basis points) per $ 1 million traded for investment - grade (high - yield) corporate bonds.

In a diversified portfolio you use your bonds to buy stocks (or for spending purposes if taking distributions from your portfolio) when the stock market falls so you aren't forced to sell your stocks at a low point in the cycle and lock in losses.

And they point to the stock market and the bond market.

Bonds seem as yet unable to see what the fuss is all about, but at this point it is important to ask ourselves whether the equity market sell - off is going to bleed into the fixed income world anytime soon.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

While the size of the victory and Syriza's choice of coalition partner caused some angst — Greek bond yields jumped around 60 basis points immediately after results were announced — the damage to financial markets was limited.

At this point I want our investors to think about conservation of capital, I want them to think about being wary about these markets, I want them to investigate less volatile places in the market like higher - grade corporate bonds.

U.S. high - yield bond spreads are 34 basis points, or hundredths of a percentage point, tighter; cover spreads are 21 basis points tighter, and emerging - market credit excess returns are at 3.6 %.

In January 2018, Craig W. Johnson, who is director of Piper Jaffray's technical research group, told CNBC that yields on those bonds were entering a «danger zone» while the market was reaching an «inflection point.»

At this point, fixed income investors should no longer beware the 3 % psychological level, and since we are very far away from the 4 % level they should look for external threats to the bond market.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

As we pointed out in our post last week, a withdrawal rate strategy should respond to market factors like equity valuations and bond yields as well as personal factors like age, retirement horizon, and expectations about pension and Social Security benefits.

In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is becoming more expensive, so we need the central bank radically to change their policy.

If the deflation deadlock is ever broken and yields are rising several 100 basis points, the resulting mark - to - market losses of bond and swap portfolios could lead to systemic pressure.

An important issue in bond markets at present is whether the recent tightening of 25 points by the US Federal Reserve marks the start of a more general uptrend in interest rates.

Reflecting these positive developments, the Japanese stock market has risen by around 40 per cent over the past six months and long - term bond yields have risen by nearly 1 percentage point since the middle of the year.

On the other hand, Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray said: «I feel even stronger about our year - end call of 3, 3.25 [percent] in the 10 - year bond yield at this point.»

Banks are retrenching from lending to the point that corporate borrowers are turning to the bond market instead for funding.

Gross expects the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates by another three - quarters of a point, increasing the odds of a modest economic recovery by year - end — and boosting the bond market.

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The EFSF will now be able to loan the full amount allotted to the fund, it will be allowed to buy sovereign bonds on the primary market, and the interest rate on loans to Greece was cut by a percentage point while the maturities of the loans were extended.

If that turns out to be true, we believe stock and bond markets are more likely to experience volatility and «turning points» as these markets adjust to new policy imperatives, in which case, more active strategies that employ dynamic approaches to changing market conditions will have the potential to outperform passive, long - only investment strategies.

Another point is that there can be mark - ups in bonds and thus it isn't necessarily that you are making more in trading bonds assuming one is buying bonds on the secondary market that may not be as liquid as a mutual fund.