Sentences with phrase «bonds have risen»

Real yields (the yield after accounting for inflation) on government bonds have risen recently, but are still around zero.

Average yields on investment - grade corporate bonds have risen just 2 basis points this month to 96 basis points more than Treasuries, while junk bond yields are up just 7 basis points to 253 basis points over Treasuries, according to Merrill Lynch data.

Yields on German 10 - year bonds have risen by around 30 basis points since June 27, when comments by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi were interpreted as a sign the bank was more willing to stop bond purchases and increase interest rates.

And you know bonds have risen in value and real estates gone back up to bubble levels but there hasn't been a lot of real world inflation and certainly no wage inflation.

Sure enough, the yield on a Canadian 10 - year bond has risen in tandem with its U.S. counterpart since the start of the year, even as Poloz has signaled caution ahead.

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

Default free bonds would rise in price, as interest rates plummeted.

Not exact matches

The rise in U.S. bond yields has dented emerging market currencies and bond markets, including those in Asia.

That relationship has played out this year — as interest rates have risen since January, the HYG high yield corporate bond ETF has come under pressure.

Markets around the globe have been keeping a close eye on the U.S. bond market as rising Treasury yields put investors on edge.

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

When bond rates rise, which they have this year, these stocks tend to fall in price as fixed - income products, which are safer to begin with, become more attractive.

When rates rise, as they have done, so - called bond proxies such as consumer staples typically fall.

Stock markets were routed around the globe on Monday and bond yields rose as resurgent U.S. inflation raised the possibility central banks would tighten policy more aggressively than had been expected.

If bond yields rise significantly then some analysts have highlighted that they could offer a better investment opportunity than equities.

Portugal has been profiting from lower bond yields, but as the ECB is expected to gradually lower its government bonds purchases, yields and spreads are expected to rise, which could hamper the improvement in government finances.

Bond yields rose to the highs of the day as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid out a case where the Fed could raise rates more than it has forecast.

Over the past few sessions, we've seen fairly consistent rises across European government bond markets and that's spilled over to the U.S.» said Anthony Valeri, senior vice president of fixed income research at LPL Financial.

The bond market sell - off since late last week stemmed from inflation worries caused by rising commodity prices and growing Treasury supply, as well as bets the Federal Reserve would further raise key borrowing costs, analysts said.

The rise in bond yields, which investors fear could hurt equities, has been partly fuelled by the spike in crude oil prices, which on Tuesday crossed $ 75, boosting energy shares.

That's left a lot of junk bond fund managers with plenty of exposure to the energy sector at a time when oil prices have crashed and defaults, particularly among fracking companies, are rising.

World stocks rose 20 percent last year, significantly outpacing the average on bond markets, meaning the relative value of funds» equity holdings has increased without a single new share being bought.

With the United States also reducing its quantitative easing - related bond purchases, supply would then slowly rise and potentially push rates to more extreme levels.

Long - term bond rates have risen about one percentage point since then, and that has caused bond values to fall.

LGFV debt, however, has continued to rise with 4 trillion yuan ($ 605 billion) worth of LGFV bonds issued since 2015 still outstanding, equivalent to 5.4 percent of China's gross domestic product.

In fact, Zervos even explains the skyrocketing bond yields in Spain and Italy that we've been seeing recently, arguing that borrowing costs for sovereigns will rise even as Europe establishes a watershed banking union.

«If — and it's a big if — U.S. President - elect Trump delivers on his campaign - trail fiscal promises, U.S. market interest expectations and bond yields have room to rise even further in 2017,» says Lena Komileva, managing director of g + economics in London.

Bond yields have been rising as interest rate expectations have been rising, and the wage number confirms signs of wage inflation.

Rebalancing involves disposing of portfolio holdings in asset classes that have risen in value and using the proceeds to buy more of your asset classes that have risen less in order to restore a desired balance between stocks and bonds.

In addition, both variable and fixed - rate mortgage rates have risen over the past year as a result of moves by the Bank of Canada and fluctuations in the bond markets.

Already, the bond yield curve, which measures the difference between short - term interest rates and long one, has been rising.

As a result, bonds, which rise in price when yields drop, had a very good year in 2014.

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.

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

Meanwhile, the spread between riskier «junk» corporate bonds and «risk - free» U.S. Treasurys has dropped since the election even though interest rates generally are rising.

They'll be hoping the benchmark for global borrowing costs rises even further, because their collective bet on higher U.S. bond yields has never been greater.

Rising inflation expectations in recent months have been reflected in U.K. government bond (gilt) prices with the yield on 10 - year gilts touching its highest level since April this year at 1.509 percent in Monday's session.

Contributing to the stock market's agita so far this year has been the prospect that the 10 - year US Treasury Bond Yield may be on the verge of rising above 3.00 %, a level...

They likely worried that rates would rise even more, and jeopardize the economy, if they reduced the bond - buying.

Treasury yields have been rising not because of rising risks but because the asset bubble in bonds is deflating, inflation is rising, and investors are demanding more yield.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

Hearing the cry of «wolf» so often about rising rates has left many investors too complacent about the very real warning signs that the bond market is getting riskier.

Here's the effect that rise in rates had on certain maturities in the bond market in May and June based on iShares ETFs:

For example, if you hold a bond paying 5 % interest and market rates rise to 6 %, investors would need to pay less for your bond to be compensated for the lower than market rate.

The two largest funds in the segment — the $ 15 billion iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) and the $ 9 billion SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK)-- have faced sizable asset outflows as investors fret over high valuations and rising interest rates.

Bond traders also keep an eye on the VIX, a measure of stock - market volatility, since it has historically been highly correlated to the performance of stocks: rising when stocks sell off and falling when stocks rally.

Enter the value factor As we noted in our November Investment Directions, in periods of rising interest rates and benchmark bond rates, value has tended to outperform.

Bond prices have fallen, and their yields have risen, amid speculation that rates and inflation will climb as the economy shows added growth.

If interest rates rise bond funds get slammed and you'll be a loser (it has happened to me before, ouch)... but if you hold the bond nothing (other than the scenario of a default) happens & your principle is returned.