Sentences with phrase «high yields of bonds»

As the crisis abates, bond managers get tempted by the high yields of bonds that are lower in quality, lower in simplicity, and longer in duration.

Not exact matches

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6 of a cent to 97.34 cents US as the U.S. dollar and bond yields headed higher after the announcement.

LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields.

If interest rates rise and push that risk - free rate of return higher, then those dividend stocks and high - yield bonds are vulnerable.

If you take the view that few if any of Trump's proposals will play out as hoped, Fehr recommends a defensive positioning, with a heavy weighting to bonds and large - capitalization, high - yielding stocks such as telecoms, utilities and consumer staples.

Bond fund managers Jeffrey Aronson, Michael Vranos, and Boaz Weinstein discuss why they think high - yield market is showing signs of a bubble.

When we talk about bond market liquidity it's important to understand that there are lots of different «pools» out there such as high yield bonds, munis, government bonds, etc..

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.

And they're going to pass them onto you and me as consumers, and that will push some of the inflation data higher, with some bond - yield reaction to it.

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The benchmark 10 - year yield hit a high of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much more important than Dow 20,000.»

Also, as bond rates rise, some of the money that migrated over from the bond market in search of higher yields will return to the safety of fixed income.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks.

Low sovereign bond yields have long helped the government finance its debt, thus, higher yields would undermine the sustainability of its fiscal position, analysts said.

He started in high - yield bonds and went on during the internet boom to turn a million dollars in patent acquisitions into a portfolio of software intellectual property worth $ 150 million.

Gundlach predicts that both high - yield bonds and a portfolio of mortgage - backed securities could return about 6 percent in 2013.

The sell off in the market for high yield debt, or junk bonds, is now hitting a type of structured bond that is similar to the the type that blew up in the financial crisis.

Serge Pepin, the head of BMO Investments, says people should consider corporate or high - yield bonds — also known as junk bonds — which pay higher yields than federal issues.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

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.

I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

Total issuance of leveraged loans and high yield bonds is down by nearly $ 140 billion this year compared to 2014, to about $ 575 billion.

And the high yield bond market is already showing signs of improvement.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield bonds do offer bigger returns than government and investment - grade bonds.

The Vanguard High Yield Corporate Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return of 0.5 percent in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.

The yield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Novyield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of NovYield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.

However, rates have retreated from over 8 percent in the last several weeks, and the credit risk of high - yield bonds can offer some diversification from the interest - rate risk of a portfolio of Treasury bonds.

Two are focused on high - yield, or junk, bonds, according to ETF.com, despite repeated warnings on Wall Street that the segment of the market is headed for the rocks.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

«Hence, the fear of deflation driven by an acute oil price collapse receded, allowing bond yields to move higher,» he added.

10 - year yields on Austrian government bonds — and indicator of stress on the country — are moving sharply higher this morning.

Investors were watching the report closely after fears of surging inflation helped send the stock market lower and bond yields higher.

The bid - to - cover was 2.70, while 11.57 percent of the bonds were bought at high yield.

Historically speaking, when the economy has gotten stronger, the price of Treasury bonds go lower and the yield goes higher.

The SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond fund gathered more than $ 1.1 billion, or about half its total for the year, while the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond took in $ 603 million, pulling it out of negative territory for the full year.

In this regard, our surveillance has been closely monitoring for any signs of liquidity strains associated with the recent increases in spreads for high - yield corporate bonds, as well as for idiosyncratic events affecting particular funds in this segment, such as the events surrounding the abrupt closing of Third Avenue Management's Focused Credit Fund last December.

However, in the spring of 2013, high - yielding stocks, which were basically trading as bond alternatives, got crushed.

Bond yields set another round of multiyear highs — which could indicate inflation could emerge as a headwind.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

Four of the top 10 funds in terms of inflows from Oct. 7 - 13 came from the bond sector, and two of them were focused on high - yield, or junk.

LONDON, April 30 - Government bond yields in the euro area nudged higher on Monday as focus turned to preliminary inflation data from Germany and Italy, two of the bloc's biggest economies.

One of the best coincident and real - time indicators of bursting bubbles and recessions is the yield spread between US high - yield corporate bonds and the 10 - year US Treasury.

While it's better to invest than keep money under a mattress, buying risk free securities, such as guaranteed income certificates or low - yielding government bonds, could actually be riskier than purchasing higher returning products, says Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of Toronto's TriDelta Financial Partners.

They have also increased the cost of new fixed - rate mortgages as yields on the bond market have moved higher.

Bond yields have been on an upward march this year as higher inflation expectations spurred predictions of a more hawkish Federal Reserve.

RB: The extreme undervaluation of high yield municipal bonds.

This high - yield, or junk, bond market has been getting a lot of attention lately as credit spreads have blown out.

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