Sentences with phrase «bond measure in»

The Details: If approved, this initiative would authorize the spending of $ 7.5 billion for water infrastructure projects, making it the fourth - largest water bond measure in California's history.

He also played a key role negotiating and authoring the $ 9 billion Proposition 1A bond measure in 1998 — which has led to public votes supporting over $ 36 billion to build new schools and improve existing school buildings.

Oakland voters passed a $ 435 bond measure in 2006 that helped pay for the $ 75 million Escuelita center, which will open Aug. 27 and serve pre-K through high school students with services including a health clinic and community center.

Voters in the Mt. Diablo school district approved a $ 348 million bond measure in 2010 that helped pay for an $ 80 million solar project at about 51 schools that is expected to save millions of dollars in energy costs over 30 years.

Leading financial firms over the past five years donated $ 1.8 million to successful school bond measures in California, and in almost every instance, school district officials hired those same underwriters to sell the bonds for a profit, a California Watch review has found.

Torlakson said voters approved two - thirds of the school construction bonds on June ballots and he believes they will also support local bond measures in November, along with a statewide bond measure in 2014.

Not exact matches

The chart shows the number of transactions in Treasury bonds divided by the MOVE index, or Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate, which measures Treasury market volatility.

Duration is a calculation, expressed in years, that measures a bond's coupon - weighted term - weighted price volatility.

The U.S. can borrow until Aug. 2 after reaching the US$ 14.29 - trillion limit because of «stronger - than - expected tax receipts» and «extraordinary measures» such as suspending the sale of bonds for state infrastructure projects, Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.

«It is a terrible mistake for investors with long - term horizons... to measure their investment «risk» by their portfolio's ratio of bonds to stocks,» Buffett wrote in the February 24 letter.

The big spenders were nonetheless defeated by a citizens» group that spent only $ 15,000 to support the bond measure, which passed with 57 % of the vote on Nov. 7, approving up to $ 150 million in financing for a city - run broadband utility.

Bonds, as measured by the Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index, have risen 5.8 % in 2014, including interest payments.

Duration is a measure that helps estimate the amount the price of a bond will rise or fall in response to changes in interest rates.

Duration, the most commonly used measure of bond risk, quantifies the effect of changes in interest rates on the price of a bond or bond portfolio.

These initiatives have included various measures to encourage broader participation in local currency bond markets, including by non-residents.

The barrage of other measures included an increase in the purchases of government bonds and other assets.

An array of measures is selected from the overall credit supply (or what is the same thing, debt securities) to represent «money,» which then is correlated with changes in goods and service prices, but not with prices for capital assets — bonds, stocks and real estate.

In general, it is a better measure than average maturity for bonds that have the ability to prepay principal before they reach maturity (e.g., mortgages, mortgage - backed securities and asset - backed securities).

In December 2015, S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Real Assets Index, the first index of its kind, which is designed to measure global property, infrastructure, commodities, and inflation - linked bonds, using liquid and investable component indices that track public equities, fixed income, and futures.

Bond market action has been quite threatening in this regard, but we still have not had enough negative action there to prevent a positive shift in our measures of trend uniformity.

«I'm similarly impressed by the fragility of our economic system, even though it's been reinforced with so many heavy measures by governments around the globe, ECB bond - buying programs and zero interest rate policies here in the U.S., for instance.»

Meanwhile, «The bottom 90 percent of U.S. households, as measured by net wealth, now hold less than 5 percent of muni bonds, falling from almost 15 percent in 1989.»

Expectations of a Federal Reserve (Fed) liftoff contrasted with further easing measures from the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, and this has been reflected in the diverging path of two - year bond yields.

On the yield measures, we've had some relief for Treasury yields in the past couple of weeks, but we've also seen a significant spike in the yield on many industrial bonds over that same period, including issues in the Dow 20 Bond Average.

Yields can be measured in a number of ways, including coupon yield, or the stated interest rate of the bond, and yield to maturity, which is the total rate of return when an investor holds the bond to maturity.

However, turnover ratios, which measure trading volumes divided by outstanding amounts, broadly gauge differences across countries in both sovereign and corporate bond markets (Graph 2, left - hand panel).

Measuring risk capacity helps us allocate money you will not need in the next few years to stock investments, while allocating money you will need in the next few years to bonds or cash, which are less volatile investments.

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.

Central bank bond - buying measures in most of the world have helped to increase liquidity, support asset prices, and smooth volatility.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch raised a total of $ 2.6 billion in investment banking fees in the US last year, when it benefited from a boom in junk bond underwriting as corporate issuers rushed to take advantage of low rates ahead of the Federal Reserve's plans to withdraw stimulus measures.

Not to beleaguer the ongoing developments in the US Bond markets, but while ten years US yield count on the Greenbacks measuring tape, the unwinding of the USD geopolitical risk premium goes on and price action suggests we should expect... Read more

If the economy stays stuck in a cycle of deflation, the Liberal Democratic Party wants the Bank of Japan to purchase bonds as a funding measure for public works projects.

The erosion of value in bonds because of inflation is harder to measure, but more damaging in the long term.

Interview with the Bond's King Jeffrey Gundlach in an interview at CNBC said that «when it comes to what effect the Fed quantitative easing measures or the interest rates tightening...

Stated in years, duration is a weighted measure of the length of time the bond will pay out.

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yield.

Does the credit premium, measured by the difference in returns between U.S. corporate bonds and duration - matched U.S. Treasuries, exhibit momentum?

In late October, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) decided to keep Portugal's sovereign rating at investment grade, maintaining the country's BBB (low) rating with a «stable» outlook on the back of its progress in reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sectoIn late October, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) decided to keep Portugal's sovereign rating at investment grade, maintaining the country's BBB (low) rating with a «stable» outlook on the back of its progress in reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sectoin reducing the fiscal deficit and proactive measures to strengthen the banking sector.

In their February 2015 paper entitled «Credit Risk Premium: Its Existence and Implications for Asset Allocation», Attakrit Asvanunt and Scott Richardson measure and explore the predictability and diversification power of the credit (or default) risk premium associated with corporate bonds.

They also examine whether four bond risk premiums (volatility, credit risk, value and momentum), each specified in multiple ways and measured via long - short portfolios formed from monthly sorts, exhibit these two seasonal effects.

Looking back over the past 25 years, a period of low and stable inflation, stock / bond correlation has generally moved in tandem with monetary policy, as measured by the effective federal funds rate.

Adding in record bond issuance in recent years, a financing option not common in 1990s, «overall leverage is even higher today than implied by traditional measures of bank lending,» the report explained.

These stimulus measures have driven bond yields in Europe and Japan lower and bond prices there higher, and could continue to do so (source: Bloomberg).

It then followed it up by a series of quantitative easing measures, where it purchased bonds in the market to improve the liquidity conditions.

Duration measures how sensitive a bond's price is to changes in interest rates — higher duration bonds experience bigger gains and losses in response to a change in interest rates.

Even though Fascism remained ideologically eclectic and chaotic — Gentile's systematizations never had any organic connection with the movement — and in large measure it was simply the acting out on the national stage of some of the less pleasant aspects of the Italian underculture — the band of thugs tied to their leader in bonds of personal loyalty — it did develop an ideological style and became once in power, a church, as Jemolo describes it:

So when Paul urged the Ephesian church to «make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace,» he followed this with an acknowledgement of the Church's diversity, in which there are «apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers... so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.»

I had a friend who loved to watch the older James Bond movies (the ones with the voluptuous Bond girls with the suggestive names) but told me the classic rock music I was listening to was ungodly because the accent was on the wrong beat in the measure.

This season, Reid illustrated the true measure of his bonding and building in Kansas City.

Here's how Bonds's economical approach at the plate — measured in swings per dinger — compares with the free - swinging, 60 - plus homer seasons of McGwire and Sammy Sosa, plus Sosa's 2001 output (59).