Sentences with phrase «bond yields point»

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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.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

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.

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

Last year, when the Fed hinted that it was going to stop buying bonds, tapering its quantitative easing, bond yields jumped nearly 2 % points in just a few days.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

«That we're at a point that we can start to sustain some rises in bond yields speaks to confidence in the economy.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

At some point, investors who are conflating high - yielding consumer staples stocks with bonds or who are taking interest rate risk in long - dated Treasurys will see drawdowns as well.

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.

April 26 - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a strong open for the tech - heavy Nasdaq on Thursday as a slew of upbeat earnings from Facebook and Qualcomm helped set aside worries over rising U.S. bond yields and corporate costs.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

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.

Banks rose along with the bond yields, as the S&P / TSX composite index advanced 84.57 points to 15,524.01, helped in part by the influential financials sector.

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.

If at this point we found that using an interest rate of 6.8 % in our calculations did not yield the exact bond price, we would have to continue our trials and test interest rates increasing in 0.01 % increments.

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 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.

The article makes the point that unlike most ETFs, high yield bond ETFs often trade at prices far from their fair value.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

In other words, equity dividends are higher by a third of a percentage points than quality bond yields, and that's before the dividend tax credit and before any capital gains.

Desai said that high - yield bonds also mean high risk, and pointed to the volatility of high - yield energy bonds, especially in the past year.

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

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.

An interesting starting point is the VanEck Vectors Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (ANGL).

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.

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 %.

We have found that stocks and bond yields historically have been positively correlated until the 10 - year yield gets up around 5 %, at which point the correlations break down.

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

U.S. stocks plunged on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking more than 400 points as rising government bond yields drove investors into risk - off mode...

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.

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.

On average, high - quality corporate bonds currently have yields that are at least one percentage point higher than Treasury bonds.

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.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

We believe gradual monetary policy normalization and sustained global economic expansion point to moderately higher global bond yields.

It is therefore not yet clear (although clarity could develop in the coming weeks) that we are at a tipping point from which we will see bond yields march dramatically higher.

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.