Not exact matches
As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest
potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large
potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat
yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured
by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured
by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial
potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.
Bonds, as measured
by the Barclay's Capital Aggregate Bond Index, are
yielding less than 2 %, while cash has very little return
potential at all.
Generally speaking, joint market action in Treasury
yields, credit spreads, commodities, and market internals provide the earliest signal of
potential economic strains, followed
by the new orders and production components of regional purchasing managers indices and Fed surveys, followed
by real sales, followed
by real production, followed
by real income, followed
by new claims for unemployment, and confirmed much later
by payroll employment.
A
potential surprise: A rally in risk assets prompted
by investors shifting out of cash and low -
yielding assets in search of higher returns.
By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent
potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend
Yield than the S&P 500 index.
The emerging markets have been the repository of the Bernanke QE2 program as low rates have led to the search for higher
yields and let
potential risk be damned or rather rationalized away
by dusting off the models of Long Term Capital Management.
Currency impact can be managed
by hedging local currencies back into U.S. dollar, allowing investors to potentially earn local market
yields and take advantage of
potential local bond price appreciation, with less currency fluctuations.
The earnings
yield of U.S. equities — earnings per share divided
by the share price — is the implied
yield in earnings estimates that makes
potential returns comparable to bond
yields.
«Production is no longer constrained
by quotas and production capacity is strong, given very good agronomic and climatic conditions for milk production, big processing capacity, a wide variety of products and significant
yield growth
potential.»
We develop higher -
yielding varieties
by focusing on key physiological plant traits and genes expected to increase
yield potential.
We found that: a) lactation stage must be defined biochemically (such as Na: K ratio), not
by day of lactation, b) lactation stage influences RNA quality, quantity, and
potential immune cell contamination, c) immediate processing and hard, fast centrifugation
yield better quality RNA, and d) additional washing of the milk fat layer is not necessary for the analysis of mature milk samples and does not decrease immune cell contamination in colostrum samples.
Corn
yields with today's hybrids do have the
potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and
by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.
By the time the database is ready for public release later this year, he expects that preliminary runs will have
yielded some 1,500
potential two - dimensional structures that can then be tested in experiments.
Using USDA soil maps and crop
yields, they extrapolated
potential carbon dioxide emissions across 580 million 30 - meter
by 30 - meter «geospatial cells» in Corn Belt states.
«With the UCSF team, thanks to funding
by public and private organizations, we're able to harness the team science model for collaborations like this that
yield findings with the
potential to change things for patients who've had very few options for far too long.»
And the expected
yields are about 20 percent less than predicted
by a U.S. Department of Energy analysis of biofuel
potential in 2011.
A team led
by Bill Baker of the University of South Florida in Tampa dive in Antarctic waters to collect organisms that might
yield potential drug molecules.
This approach has amazing
potential to positively affect the human condition
by giving people interventions and treatments that
yield more years of healthy, productive life.
Inflorescence architecture is a key determinant of
yield potential in many crops and is patterned
by the organization and developmental fate of axillary meristems.
These biodegradable particles could be the basis for reduced risk conventional pesticide products that have the
potential to reduce the amount of chemicals used in plant protection
by as much as 90 percent, save farmers more than 25 percent on pest - control initiatives and, in a world facing looming food shortages, help increase crop
yields for more and better food.
Ocean coverage
by floats reached 90 %
by 2005 [66], with the gaps mainly in sea ice regions,
yielding the
potential for an accurate energy balance assessment, provided that several systematic measurement biases exposed in the past decade are minimized [67]--[69].
While climate change in recent decades has been found to negatively affect crop
yields in many regions, a new study led
by Carnegie's Julia Pongratz is the first to examine the
potential effect of geoengineering on food security.
Another
potential feedback might occur if reduced timber
yields force loggers to compensate
by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions
The earnings
yield of U.S. equities — earnings per share divided
by the share price — is the implied
yield in earnings estimates that makes
potential returns comparable to bond
yields.
While it is true that preferred stocks may see price declines as traditional long - term bonds would, the losses may be more than offset
by the
potential yield.
But some things haven't changed — investors are still challenged
by the seemingly never - ending search for
yield in an environment of
potential rising interest rates.
Thomas would save more in taxes
by using the TFSA to hold the corporate bonds, which have a higher
yield and limited
potential for price gains.
By taking such short positions, the index seeks to mitigate the
potential negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates («interest rates») on the performance of high
yield bonds (conversely limiting the
potential positive impact of falling interest rates).
To give a recent example, I believe that the
potential returns far outweigh the risks in Spanish telecom giant Telefonica (NYSE: $ TEF), despite the risks implied
by its 11 % current
yield.
In addition, this stylistic diversification affords the ability to construct a portfolio with a total return profile driven
by dividend
yield, supported
by dividend growth, and exposed to capital appreciation
potential.
the lowest
potential yield that can be received on a bond without the issuer actually defaulting; calculated
by making worst - case scenario assumptions on the issue
by calculating the returns that would be received if any in - whole mandatory redemptive provisions are exercised
by the issuer; partial redemptive provisions (such as sinking funds) are not included in
yield to worst calculations; the
yield to worst metric is used to evaluate the worst - case scenario for
yield to help investors manage risks and ensure that specific income requirements will still be met even in the worst scenarios
«You can add some
potential yield and spread out your risk
by adding fixed income from around the world,» says Dave Richardson, head of enterprise distribution strategy at RBC Global Asset Management.
Short - term trading techniques use quantitative and technical analysis to establish overvalued and undervalued bonds and,
by extension, the
potential bond
yield.
In addition, this stylistic diversification affords the ability to construct a portfolio with a total return profile driven
by dividend growth, supported
by dividend
yield, and exposed to capital appreciation
potential.
A
potential way to add some more oomph to that 0.61 %
yield could be
by moving out on the credit spectrum.
At Financial Sense ® Wealth Management, we are currently positioning for a
potential growth slowdown and rocky summer
by selling stocks, raising cash, and buying short - term US T - bills quickly approaching 2 % annual
yields.
That being said, even at today's historically attractive valuation multiples, investors should likely only expect to earn a
potential total annual return of about 5.9 % to 6.9 % (1.9 %
yield plus 4 % to 5 % annual earnings growth) over the next decade, far below the company's historical return rate and the returns offered
by most other dividend aristocrats.
However, the gross portfolio
yield is now 6.2 %, while the net's just 5.0 %... which is actually flattered
by a significant portion of the portfolio being located in West / Southwest Dublin (i.e. Inchicore / Tallaght direction), which tends to offer higher rental
yields but less
potential for capital appreciation (vs. South Dublin, for example).
Given the declining
yields in US equities and continued thirst for dividends
by investors, I decided to run a screen over at Finviz.com to see if I could come up with any
potential high
yield candidates.
Rather than focusing on companies with the highest dividends in terms of dollars, income investors gauge
potential investments
by their dividend
yield.
Our board of directors recognized that there was a
potential for creating significant value for shareholders
by continuing operations, but on balance our board of directors concluded that the risks of a negative outcome, either due to failure of our research and development efforts to
yield a successful outcome, or the failure to obtain necessary financing even with positive clinical trial data, and the resulting lower liquidation value in the future, outweighed the
potential value to shareholders from continuing operations.
By contrast, bank - loan ETFs and high -
yield ETFs have the
potential to be less liquid in comparison because these investments are inherently less liquid than stocks, and they trade over the counter (OTC) rather than on stock exchanges.
These trends can be expected to continue for some time and dividend stocks,
by turn, should remain in strong demand, not only for their relatively attractive
yields, but also their
potential to insulate investors as interest rates slowly begin to rise south of the border.
HYHG seeks to hedge high
yield bonds against the
potential negative impact of rising Treasury interest rates
by taking short positions in U.S. Treasury futures.
the lowest
potential yield that can be received on a bond without the issuer actually defaulting; calculated
by calculating the returns that would be received if provisions, including prepayment, call or sinking fund, are used
by the issuer
The results
yielded by these tools and calculators are merely estimates and they do not guarantee available credit amount,
potential savings, tax benefits or the like.
Almine Rech Gallery - Grosvenor Hill is pleased to present «Plastic Show», a selection of works
by seminal California artists from the Light and Space movement: Mary Corse (b. 1945), Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Craig Kauffman (1932 — 2010), John McCracken (1934 — 2011), and DeWain Valentine (b. 1936)-- five artists who, through a series of individual explorations, went on to investigate the broad
potential that plastics (i.e., synthetically produced resins) could
yield.
A new report on agricultural
potential in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
by a National Academies panel listed nine techniques and technologies that could substantially boost the desperately lagging
yields of many farms in those struggling regions, and nine more that had great
potential.
A recent meta - analysis published in the journal Nature Climate Change,
by Challinor et al. (2014) examines 1,722 crop model simulations, run using global climate model output under several emissions scenarios, to evaluate the
potential effects of climate change and adaptation on crop
yield.
Over the years, FST has demonstrated the
potential of organic farming practices
by measuring soil organic matter (SOM),
yields, profits, energy inputs, and greenhouse gas emissions.