Sentences with phrase «debt yields fell»

Government debt yields fell to multimonth lows, with the 10 - year yield slumping below 2.1 percent as stocks declined on global economic worries.

Not exact matches

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.

The yield on 3 - month U.S. Treasury debt, after initially falling after the Fed's meeting, has gone from 0.01 % on Wednesday to a recent 0.04 %.

Cannon figures that the average credit quality of a the big banks lending portfolio probably falls halfway between high - yield debt and investment grade.

So while these «fallen angel» bonds have the potential to be intrinsically higher quality than debt originally issued at the junk or high - yield level, undue structural selling pressure from the downgrade can cause them to sell at a discount.

Oil prices have fallen more than 15 percent since March 4 to a six - year low of $ 42.3, wiping out $ 7 billion of market value of high - yield debt issued by energy companies.

And international buyers, from Europe to Japan, are backing away from U.S. corporate debt as a falling dollar drives up hedging costs at the same time curtailed central - bank buying drives up global yields.

With interest rates on low - risk investments falling to low levels in many countries, investors have sought to maintain yields by moving into higher - risk assets such as corporate debt and emerging market debt.

For the first time ever, Germany's 10 - year government bond yield recently fell below zero, joining negative government debt issued by Japan, Switzerland and other countries.

Now that over $ 5 trillion of sovereign debt (with credit risk rising, not falling) trades with a negative yield, we can fairly overlook bonds as an investible asset class.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

The rise in yields as prices fall makes more German debt eligible for ECB purchases, under its own arcane rules.

Democrats» efforts to include debt restructuring powers for Puerto Rico in the House's massive omnibus spending bill fell short, yielding only a commitment from Republican leadership to work on legislation that would help the ailing island by next spring.

Earlier this week the yield on Italian ten - year debt rose to a record seven per cent before falling back by around 0.5 percentage points.

It seems like investors are hoping to sell the debt elsewhere and make a profit when, and if, prices go up when yields fall.

Another way to say it is that if the short end of the Treasury yield curve falls dramatically, don't expect the yields corporate debt to follow suit to anywhere near the same degree.

The returns and yields on government issued debt instruments experienced a hike although the benchmark 5 - year government yield fell by 115 basis points.

U.S. Dollar Falls to 15 Month Low against Basket of Major Currencies The U.S. Dollar fell to a 15 month low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday as concerns about debt issues in Dubai subsided, leading to increased demand for higher yielding currencies.

I would rather prefer to invest in debt mutual funds, hoping bond yields to fall once the economy stabilizes post next year's elections.

While bond funds that own a wide variety of high yield debt will include some Fallen Angel bonds, the Market Vectors Fallen Angel HY Bond ETF (NYSEArca: ANGL) is the only fund that tracks these former investment grade bonds exclusively.

Issuance plummets as yields rise and prices fall for risky debt.

Mortgage rates tend to rise and fall along with the yield, or effective interest rate, on U.S. government debt.