Sentences with phrase «fall bond measure»

The agreement calls for the charter school and district to back a fall bond measure that would provide funding for a 10th campus.

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It's the total earnings - per - share the market generates as a percent of the market's total value — a measure similar to the yield on bonds, where the yield rises when bond prices fall, and vice versa.

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.

Duration is a measure that helps estimate the amount the price of a bond will rise or fall in response to changes in interest rates.

Meanwhile, «The bottom 90 percent of U.S. households, as measured by net wealth, now hold less than 5 percent of muni bonds, falling from almost 15 percent in 1989.»

Even without any selling, the value of the fund's share price would fall (roughly as a function of the fund's average «duration», a measure of interest rate sensitivity that is a related to a bond's maturity).

Spreads between corporate bond yields and swap rates, which are a measure of the market's credit risk perceptions, have fallen slightly since the previous Statement (Graph 43).

Last fall, residents passed a $ 10 million bond measure to plan, conduct and monitor treatments to prevent the devastation that occurred in the Schultz fire's aftermath, on Forest Service land and some state - managed land.

For school facility managers, perhaps the most important legislation this session is one that appears to be no longer viable - a bill that would have authorized placing a statewide school bond measure before voters in the fall.

How much they fall depends on a bond's duration, which measures sensitivity to interest rate changes.

They measure how the fund and its presumed act when their slice of the investing universe, in this case measured by the Barclays US Bond Aggregate Index, rises or falls.

Over that year, Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index, a broad measure of the market, soared 32 %, and bond values (as represented by the Barclays Aggregate Bond index) fell bond values (as represented by the Barclays Aggregate Bond index) fell Bond index) fell 2 %.

When natural resources are added to a portfolio of stocks and bonds, the Sharpe Ratio, a measure of risk - adjusted return, falls from the poor performance.

However, bond yields, as measured by the ten - year U.S. note, fell by a net twelve basis points to 2.74 at month - end.

If the periodic adjustment rate measuring inflation falls, the principal value of inflation protected bonds will be adjusted downward, and consequently the interest payable on these securities (calculated with respect to a smaller principal amount) will be reduced.