Sentences with phrase «bonds have helped»

Since then, Canadian covered bonds have helped to lower mortgage rates (indirectly) and have provided borrowers with additional financing options.

The acceptance of green bonds has helped whet investors» appetite for more kinds of SRI vehicles.

Ever since the Second World War, that bond has helped to shape the world, and the nature of the relationship intimately affects working relations between the two countries.

«Inner Bonding has helped us to seek to understand each other, agree to disagree, and discuss hot topics when both of us are open.

Inner Bonding has helped us to be more present with ourselves, which in turn, allows us to be more present in the relationship.

«Inner bonding has helped us to love and care for ourselves, so that we share our lives and love from a full and connected place without codependent expectations.

The bond would help fund a $ 66 million project list that includes: Park City High School expansion and gym remodel ($ 27.5 million); a new fifth - and sixth - grade school at Ecker Hill campus ($ 24.8 million); improvements to McPolin Elementary School, including moving the parking lot ($ 1.4 million); demolition of Treasure Mountain Junior High ($ 606,336 — none from the bond); athletic facilities improvements ($ 12 million).

When we checked on these couples two years later, the bonds we'd helped them start to forge were still intact.

Not exact matches

Low sovereign bond yields have long helped the government finance its debt, thus, higher yields would undermine the sustainability of its fiscal position, analysts said.

So besides being a bonding experience and sort of baptism into the company culture, giving new hires have a customer's - eye - view of the business helps them clarify priorities and be more innovative when they do start in their «real» role.

ZURICH, April 17 - U.S. sanctions on Russian oligarchs have hit another Swiss company, with steelmaker Schmolz & Bickenbach's chairman forced to sever ties with Viktor Vekselberg to help clear the way for a bond placement, a spokesman for the Russian billionaire said on Tuesday.

Less obvious but perhaps more important, play has been shown to help us develop and enhance our social skills and to build bonds in our relationships distinct from bonds based on dependency or hierarchy.

«You need to do the same diligence you would with any kind of financial investment,» says Ken Kirsner of Bank of America, who has helped underwrite more than 200 nonprofit bond issuances around the country.

But the scientists found one thing that helped these stressed - out chimps get through these trying episodes — having lots of «bond partners,» which is the scientific jargon for primate friends.

Residential real estate had taken on a healthy pace in late 2012 and early 2013 but has slowed since the Federal Reserve started talking about reducing its monthly bond purchase, which helps keep long - term interest rates low.

It's that connection that causes those drive - through lines to snake down the street: Tims scored highest among all brands in the survey's «citizenship» category, meaning its ties to communities have helped forge a bond stronger than a cup of coffee.

Not just because interest rates are low but because bond indexes have greater interest - rate risk, coupled with a tiny buffer to help offset losses.

Finding a significant increase in the number of mini flash crashes in the early minutes of trading on October 15, 2014 would help explain the origins of the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash and reduce the causal uncertainty surrounding the flash crash.

Specifically, the finding helps answer the concern that «no clear link has been identified between the [start of the U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash at 9:33] and open of the U.S. equity market at 9:30 ET» [1].

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

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Bonds and cash may have lagged in recent years, but they have the potential to help a portfolio during downturns, as they did in 2008.

Yes, cheap money polices did help stabilize a reeling housing sector, that shouldn't be dismissed, but what else does the Fed have to show for near - zero short term interest rates and the fortune spent lowering longer term rates through its bond buying program?

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

We've created a new tab in the Fixed Income Analysis tool that can help you estimate the hypothetical impact of interest rate changes on the value of individual bonds and bond funds.

But they historically have lower equity beta and bond - like characteristics that may help provide some protection in downturns, where they have tended to exhibit less downside capture.

His latest tweet Monday night weighed in on the recent announcement from the Federal Reserve that it would initiate another round of bond buying to help stimulate economic growth.

Bank of America has discussed paying about $ 12 billion, including more than $ 5 billion to help struggling homeowners, to resolve a range of federal and state probes, primarily into whether the company and its units defrauded mortgage bond investors in the run - up to the financial crisis, people familiar with the matter said.

Patrick also did mine and help me discover I had much more bonds (~ 28 %) than intended (5 %).

As usual, the development of local currency sovereign bond markets has helped by providing a benchmark for pricing.

ProShares has rolled out the first bond ETF that focuses solely on S&P 500 issuers to help investors gain exposure to some...

It is all part of the wonderful way the emerging bond markets help to give each investor have as much choice as possible for making the right choices.

If you're retired, knowing that you have the next couple years» worth of living expenses in a bank account — and several more years in bonds that mature when you need the money — can help keep you calm and clear - headed, Mark says.

Since the global financial crisis in 2008 - 09, a combination of low inflation expectations and a bond - buying program by the Federal Reserve have helped keep bond yields low but they have climbed this year as inflation has picked up and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.

The ability of the central bank to buy a bond directly from the govt would avoid any contractionary effects while the new money used to pay claims clearly increases the money supply which may help during downturns (when this helicoptering mechanism should be considered for use to some degree).

This would help mitigate the risks associated with what is widely perceived as a «liquidity illusion».10 The transition to such a market environment, however, could be accompanied by strained market conditions, as suggested by recent episodes of elevated bond market volatility.

Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

We already have the NCF funds mostly in bonds, so we do have flexibility to use part of it to helps us in an emergency situation.

«We are already seeing the bond purchases have helped to further improve borrowing conditions,» the ECB's Lautenschläger said.

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

WASHINGTON — Most business economists believe the Federal Reserve's controversial bond - buying stimulus program has helped boost the recovery, but differ on the effects of the healthcare reform law and other policies by President Obama and Congress, according to survey results released Monday.

The bond purchases have helped keep long - term borrowing rates low.

There are web sites which help with pricing IL bonds however the Saturday FT has the calculated real returns for selected issues, though you have to look quite hard to find it.

The ECB's decision to start buying $ 60 billion per month of mostly government bonds in March as part of a $ 1.1 trillion QE package has helped ease credit by lowering interest rates, although the rate of improvement might seem disappointing in the short term.

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

This week the ECB has taken markets somewhat by surprise with the scale of its quantitative easing (QE) program and this should help to consolidate recent bond yield and currency falls.

Our research has shown an advisor can help an investor add about 0.35 % in net portfolio returns in a 60 % stock / 40 % bond portfolio when it's rebalanced annually versus the same portfolio when it's not rebalanced.

While holding investment bonds that may have very little change in price can help address market fluctuation anxiety, there is still a big risk related to inflation.

Like bonds, the prospect of the Fed tapering and causing rising interest rates has helped bring the 2013 YTD returns for the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index to -1 %.