Sentences with phrase «bond yield basis»

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

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.

The current deadlock has raised pressure on Greek bonds on Thursday morning, sending the 10 - year bond yields up by 5 basis point.

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points, the tightest spread in more than six years.

But its strong bond base positions it well if bond yields rebound.

Ten - year Italian bond yields have risen 17 basis points to 4.55 percent, since the news of an uncertain outcome spread on Monday but the Italian treasury is going ahead with a sale of 6.5 billion euros ($ 8.5 billion) of 5 and 10 - year bonds on Wednesday.

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.

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.

BofA won bonds due in 2029 with a yield of 3.78 percent, which slightly increased the spread over the scale to 165 basis points from 163 basis points, according to MMD, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.75 % fell 2 basis points to 2.814 %, while the 30 - year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.77 % slipped 3.3 basis points to 2.998 %, its third straight decline.

Rates for home loans eased up slightly as investors bought more bonds, sending yields down a few basis points.

the percentage of return an investor receives based on the amount invested or on the current market value of holdings; it is expressed as an annual percentage rate; yield stated is the yield to worst — the yield if the worst possible bond repayment takes place, reflecting the lower of the yield to maturity or the yield to call based on the previous close

The assumed discount rate utilized is based on a broad sample of Moody's high quality corporate bond yields as of the measurement date.

The 10 - year German government bond yield TMBMKDE - 10Y, -8.48 % fell 1.4 basis points to 0.509 %, according to Tradeweb data.

Yields on U.S. 30 - year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter maturities to the outlook for inflation, have jumped almost 40 basis points since last Friday and a $ 15 billion auction of the tenor on Thursday showed waning appetite for the securities.

-LSB-...] the long - term returns on bonds will certainly be lower than average based on the current yields.

Yields on U.S. government bonds are already some of the highest in the sovereign debt markets and are attractive to non-U.S. buyers on an absolute and relative basis.

In contrast, bond market exposure (in the form of yield curve and spread risk) has played a relatively minor role in driving convertible bond risk and return in the recent past and seems likely to play a minor role in the year ahead, based on our model.

Appetite for riskier assets such as stocks and high - yield bonds has been suppressed by a number of factors that have come up around the same time, but the headwinds may be transitory, according to the New York - based investment bank.

Based on BlackRock's long - term assumptions, some of the better return - to - risk ratios are in high yield bonds, EM dollar - denominated debt and bank loans.

Whatever happens to rates from here it makes sense to reign in your expectations as a bond investor based on today's low starting yields.

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The apparent one - to - one relationship between Treasury yields and equity yields during that span (which is the entire basis for the «Fed Model») is anything but a «fair value» relationship between stocks and bonds.

One important concept to understand is yield, which is the annual income on a bond, based on its market price; it's sometimes used interchangeably with «interest rates.»

China's one - year sovereign bond yield has climbed 14 basis points since the devaluation, while the cost to insure the nation's debt against default jumped to a two - year high.

The yield on the current 30 - year bond fell less than one basis point to 3.37 percent.

The spread between Australian and US bond yields has contracted from nearly 450 basis points at the beginning of the 1990s to an average of about 25 basis points more recently.

The 30 - day yield also helps you compare bond funds from different companies on a standard basis.

But this week the 10 - year Treasury lost roughly 1.4 points, which translated into a 15 basis point jump in its yield to 2.84 % The long bond closed over 3 %.

Yield to maturity is the return a bond earns if held to maturity, based on its price and coupon.

Yet we also see very strong inflows into junk bond funds, based on the belief that these high yields represent value rather than information about default probabilities.

I've noted that the upward spike in bond yields in recent months was based not on information about an economic recovery, but merely reflected a normalization of maturity risk premiums.

-LSB-...] happens to rates from here it makes sense to reign in your expectations as a bond investor based on today's low starting yields.

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

The fund adjusts its allocations daily based upon equity and bond market volatility, correlation between the bond and equity indexes, and the yield - to - maturity of the bond index.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

Further out in the credit quality spectrum, U.S. - based high - yield «junk» bond funds

The 30 - year bond yield TMUBMUSD30Y, -0.86 % added 3.3 basis points to 3.138 %, the highest since March 9.

On 15 October, the yield on 10 - year US Treasury bonds fell almost 37 basis points (Graph 2, left - hand panel), more than the drop on 15 September 2008 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

China's benchmark 10 - year government bond yield traded just shy of 4 percent in early December, up almost 100 basis points over the course of 2017.

The yield on the 2 - year bond fell 313 basis points to 21.2 percent at 3:22 p.m. in Athens.

Toronto - Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 percent as government bond yields touched their highest levels since 2011 this week.

The yield on Portugal's 10 - year bonds climbed 16 basis points to 3.93 percent.

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

Higher oil prices would reinforce current market trends based on reflation: rising long - term bond yields and a shift out of perceived safer assets — bond proxies and low - volatility stocks — and into cyclical assets such as EM.

Floating - rate loans have yields and volatility similar to high - yield corporate bonds, with one major difference: As their name indicates, their interest rates «float,» adjusting periodically based on a benchmark rate, typically the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).

In Europe, the yield for the 10 - year German bond TMBMKDE - 10Y, +1.25 % also known as bunds, fell sharply by 5.2 basis points to 0.527 %, according to Tradeweb data.