Sentences with phrase «government bond yields»

The German 10 - Year Government Bond Yield hit negative territory yesterday.

It is conceivable that a sharp rise in government bond yields could follow a significant cash transfer to households.

Both high yield indices demonstrated a positive correlation with rate changes, meaning that high yield bonds had positive returns when government bond yields rose.

Fixed - rate mortgages tend to move with government bond yields of a similar term, reflecting the change in borrowing costs.

There is an extremely strong relationship between nominal GDP growth and long term government bond yields.

This rising demand for investment income has been complicated by the persistence of historically low government bond yields since the financial crisis in 2008.

Even 10 - year Japanese government bonds yield only 0.6 percent.

With the exception of the very front end of the yield curve, Canadian government bond yields declined, as did spreads on investment grade corporate bonds.

Fixed - rate mortgages tend to move in sync with government bond yields of a similar term, reflecting the change in borrowing costs.

In the meantime, gold continues to find support from global monetary policy and low to negative government bond yields.

Sterling fell 1 % against the dollar following the announcement, while British government bond yields hit record lows and the main share index rose by 1 %.

With the exception of the very front end of the yield curve, Canadian government bond yields declined, as did spreads on investment grade corporate bonds.

Posted fixed mortgage rates have always been above government bond yields so paying off your house will offer a higher return over the long - term.

I remember the early 1980s, when 10 - year government bonds yielded more than 16 %.

The rise in government bond yields has, however, more than offset the decline in corporate spreads.

5 year and 10 year government bond yields are lower than my mortgage rate.

In fact, with the recent fall in long - term government bond yields, annuities now return more than 100 % return of premiums paid in many cases.

As we already know that Canadian Government bond yield is falling for a while — that gives us the opportunity for this low mortgage rate.

The yen was also at four - week high against the greenback and the overnight drop in U.S. government bond yields saw German Bund yields move decisively back into negative territory.

Charlie Bilello, Director of Research at Pension Partners, posted the following table via Twitter on June 16th that references the current state of government bond yields around the world.

The 10 - year German government bond yield TMBMKDE - 10Y, -8.48 % fell 1.4 basis points to 0.509 %, according to Tradeweb data.

In addition to the aforementioned concerns, Golub noted fears about whether economic growth won't meet lofty expectations and signals being sent from the bond market, where a narrower gap between government bond yields is kindling fears that a recession is looming.

Euro zone government bond yields jumped on Thursday, kicking recent sharp falls into reverse, and the euro climbed to a six - day high.

A decades - long trend of falling interest rates and falling inflation — and inflation expectations — seemed to have ended, as the 10 - year U.S. government bond yield broke the downward trend since 1987,» says chief strategist at Sparinvest David Bakkegaard Karsbøl in his monthly comment for February.

When the cost of living has eaten away at government bond yields, investors have tended to seek more attractive stores of value, including gold.

Our measure of the gap between expected returns on global equities and real government bond yields — a proxy for the equity risk premium — has fallen from recent peaks, yet still sits well above its long - term average.

Moreover, the decade - long low level and volatility of government bond yields led financial institution to take massive notional amounts of interest rate risk.

A stable blue chip with a 4 % yield will trounce government bond yields even if its stock trades flat.

The yield on the German 10 - year Bund recently fell below zero, and the Swiss 30 - year government bond yield turned negative, in effect charging investors for the privilege of holding their cash.

The Japanese 20 - year government bond yielded just 0.87 % on January 20.

The positive correlation of high yield bonds was further corroborated by the negative correlation of credit spreads and interest rate changes, indicating that when government bond yields moved higher, credit spreads tightened.

REITs have long been popular with income - seeking investors in this era of miniscule government bond yields.

Given the global backdrop of an aging demographic, high debt levels, and some major trading partners that have 10 - year government bond yields below 1 % and sub-target inflation, the equilibrium level for the U.S. 10 - year government bonds seems more likely to reside below, rather than above, 3 % — in which case this cycle might end like many others with an inverted yield curve — who knows?

Overseas, UK government bond yields spiked after higher - than - expected inflation data.

He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government bond yield near 0 percent in an effort to control the yield curve and stepping up the Bank of Japan's asset purchases.

Government bond yields also turned higher, with the benchmark 10 - year note most recently trading near 2.88 percent, a gain of about 3.8 basis points.

Meanwhile government bond yields, a reliable barometer of market fear, are falling to record low levels as investors engage in a panicked hunt for risk - free assets.

For instance, here is Germany's 5 - year government bond yield which is clearly pricing in much more demand ahead.

Stock market futures initially nudged higher following the report while government bond yields edged lower.

The 5 year maturity government bonds yields in Japan and Germany are negative and slightly above 0 %, respectively.

The Eurogroup's green light sent Greek government bond yields sharply lower.

Benchmark 10 - year Turkish government bond yields rose 26 basis points to traded at 11.06 %.

U.S. stocks plunged on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sinking more than 400 points as rising government bond yields drove investors into risk - off mode...

Yields on high - yield corporate bonds narrowed (centre panel) and record low government bond yields pushed up valuations of risky assets (right - hand panel).

From the end of October onwards, monetary policy was eased further in China, Europe and Japan, boosting US equity markets to new all - time highs (Graph 1, left - hand panel) and pushing long - run government bond yields to record lows in many euro area economies.