Sentences with phrase «in bond sector»

This helped stave off hints of a bear market in the bond sector.

The issuance of $ 12 million direct subsidy qualified school construction bonds by the California School Finance Authority to fund construction of a K - 8 charter school facility located on the Chula Vista campus of High Tech High was recognized by The Bond Buyer, a very respected and influential media outlet for those working in the bond sector.

Not exact matches

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

This is due to the fact that the reduction in private sector held government bond supply has been reduced which has shifted demand onto the corporate and muni markets.

This caused the default rate for broadcast & media junk bonds to spike to 20 %, from 3.7 %, and it caused the default rate for leveraged loans in the sector to spike to 16 %, according to Fitch Ratings, which added soothingly:

Many of the sectors in question did well in 2016, in spite of the rise in bond rates.

Stick to bonds — and stocks — in defensive sectors, and hang tight.

Finance startup Bond Street issues loans to small businesses, many of which have less - than - ideal credit, and it's hatched a plan to stand out in the crowded online lending sector.

- The impact of the banking support package on Spain's ability to restore market confidence in the banking sector and by extension in the government bond market.

Avoiding the downside in bonds, avoiding the downside in sectors really leads to that consistent performance over the long term,» the fund's co-manager, Michael Collins, told «Power Lunch.»

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

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.

Banks rose along with the bond yields, as the S&P / TSX composite index advanced 84.57 points to 15,524.01, helped in part by the influential financials sector.

Many economists believe that government spending «crowds out» private investment by forcing the private sector to compete for bonds in the mythical «loanable funds market».

Each fund invests in Vanguard's broadest index funds, giving you access to thousands of U.S. and international stocks and bonds, including exposure to the major market sectors and segments.

In its interactions with the government, the financial sector buys bonds (and also makes campaign contributions).

The road has been bumpy for bonds as well, especially those in credit sectors, whose performance tends to be highly correlated with stocks.

Invest in high - yield bonds and dividend - yielding stocks, says the BofA - Merrill team, which is overweight high - grade and high - yield corporate bonds, including financial sector names that are especially sensitive to the housing market.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

In most other countries with which we normally like to compare our financial markets, the corporate sector makes greater use of bond funding.

I have centered my portfolio 100 % in stocks (bonds are too safe for me right now) and have about 5 % of them in higher risk sectors.

Like most sectors of the fixed - income market, municipal bonds struggled in the first quarter as yields climbed higher.

For the money markets, it's not just that the Fed is buying fewer bonds as part of the taper but as the Fed holdings roll off, the Treasury needs to reissue to the private sector in order to pay the Fed back.

Instead, I believe it's prudent to extend allocations in other bond sectors and exposures that offer similar interest - rate sensitivity to Treasuries, but with more compelling investment cases.

Convertible bonds were the worst sector in 2011, currently the best in 2012.

Aston Martin, James Bond's car brand of choice, aims to lead the luxury EV sector and has teamed up with Beijing - based technology company LeEco to develop an electric sedan, the Aston Martin RapidE, which is expected to hit markets in 2019, CEO Andy Palmer told CNBC.

In the U.S., deteriorating urban finances — from Detroit to Stockton, Calif. — threaten municipal bond holders, public - sector workers, and taxpayers.

In addition, the Canada Savings Bond program is costly to administer and out dated given the availability of private sector savings instruments.

The fund under normal circumstances invests in at least 65 % of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of fixed income instruments of varying maturities, including bonds issued by both U.S. and non-U.S. public - or private - sector entities.

As evidenced by the image below, interest in momentum research has taken off since the original 1993 Jegadeesh and Titman paper: Source: «Two Centuries of Multi-Asset Momentum (Equities, Bonds, Currencies, Commodities, Sectors and Stocks)»

The number of potential bond downgrades decreased to 516 in March from 526 in February, with financial institutions leading all sectors with 69 potential downgrades.

He added, «We are striving to advance our product by partnering with Samsung SDS, CISCO and others to apply blockchain to a wide range of industries in the future, beyond existing uses such as bonds, promissory notes and points within the financial sector.»

The BOJ plans to remain active in the 10 - year sector and focus on keeping the rate of the 10 - year Japanese Government Bond at around zero.

The number of potential bond upgrades remained at 339 as of March 26, 2018, with the metals, mining, and steel sector leading in positive bias.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

CEO of Blocko Inc., Won - Beom Kim, states, «We are striving to advance our product by partnering with Samsung SDS, CISCO and others to apply blockchain to a wide range of industries in the future, beyond existing uses such as bonds, promissory notes and points within the financial sector.»

But even if rates remain relatively low, the bond market proxy sectors look extremely vulnerable, as their valuations are highly sensitive to increases in interest rates.

Consider these risks before investing: The value of securities in the fund's portfolio may fall or fail to rise over extended periods of time for a variety of reasons, including general financial market conditions, changing market perceptions, changes in government intervention in the financial markets, and factors related to a specific issuer, industry, or sector and, in the case of bonds, perceptions about the risk of default and expectations about changes in monetary policy or interest rates.

Issuers from the Corporate sector represent for example 32 % of the green bond universe vs 18 % in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index.

There could be more pain in other sectors of the bond market based on credit quality and maturity, but the point is that bonds were never meant to be long - term return enhancers for your portfolio.

Central banks throughout the world presently hold some $ 2.5 trillion of U.S. Treasury bonds, and another trillion dollars in private - sector U.S. dollar debt.

In addition, the Governing Council announced it would purchase asset - backed securities with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector and euro - denominated covered bonds issued by monetary financial institutions (MFIs) domiciled in the euro areIn addition, the Governing Council announced it would purchase asset - backed securities with underlying assets consisting of claims against the euro area non-financial private sector and euro - denominated covered bonds issued by monetary financial institutions (MFIs) domiciled in the euro arein the euro area.

Market participants are looking forward to getting their first major reading on earnings from the biggest technology - sector players in the coming days, but for now, investor sentiment has been able to overcome what would ordinarily be a troubling rise in long - term bond yields that could signal a steeper move higher for interest rates in the near future.

As in a number of other countries, bond issuance in Australia in recent years has shifted away from the public sector toward the private sector.

Other factors may have been a degree of illiquidity in the swap market in the face of large increases in private sector bond issuance and rising interest rates.

Note: HYG the $ 20bln high yield ETF yields 5.13 % in comparison, hence you might need to buy an out of favor sector like bricks and mortar retail, otherwise non-rated is likely where you will find > 7 % in the US domestic bond market.

In terms of equities, the S&P 500 had its best month in four years in October, while booming corporate bond sales continued to meet high demand, appearing to reflect confidence in the strength of the US corporate sector as well as the persistence of low market interest rateIn terms of equities, the S&P 500 had its best month in four years in October, while booming corporate bond sales continued to meet high demand, appearing to reflect confidence in the strength of the US corporate sector as well as the persistence of low market interest ratein four years in October, while booming corporate bond sales continued to meet high demand, appearing to reflect confidence in the strength of the US corporate sector as well as the persistence of low market interest ratein October, while booming corporate bond sales continued to meet high demand, appearing to reflect confidence in the strength of the US corporate sector as well as the persistence of low market interest ratein the strength of the US corporate sector as well as the persistence of low market interest rates.

The common element is that any long position taken in a specific equity is offset by a short position in either a merger partner (risk arbitrage), an «overvalued» member of the same sector (long / short paired trading), a convertible bond (convertible arbitrage), a futures contract (index arbitrage) or an option contract (volatility arbitrage).

These concerns might recently have been exacerbated by changes in the pattern of corporate financing: in countries in which the swap spread has increased the most — the US and UK — growth in private sector bond issuance has been relatively large, while net equity issuance has been low (or even negative as in the United States).

We have government debt, corporate debt, and a much larger Fed balance sheet (which, some people argue, drove bond buying by the public), but those are offset by a significant deleveraging in household and financial sector debt.