Sentences with phrase «in yield levels»

And the relative changes in yield levels - for both bonds and stocks - tend to be commensurate with the change in the level of inflation during the same period.

Stock investors typically bid up the valuations on stocks during these periods and become much less sensitive to the changes in yield levels.

Not exact matches

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

Using historic yield and fertilizer data, he created an algorithm that prescribed the optimal level of potash for each 40 - by 40 - foot zone in his fields.

«The Fed has moved up the short - end rate up to 2 percent, and the 2 - year note yield has moved up to the 2.5 percent level... It doesn't seem there's any significant slowdown in the economy.»

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury jumped to its highest level since 2014 on Friday morning, underlining a wider move in bond markets caused by central banks moving away from financial crisis policies.

Yields on the securities have climbed to their highest levels in six years, and total returns were negative 2.6 percent for the first two months of 2018, making for the worst start of a year for the asset class since 1981.

The benchmark 10 - year yield rose to its highest levels in four years.

Although Spain's borrowing costs have fallen over the past two months on the back of the ECB's new rescue plan, the Spanish 10 - year yield is still hovering just below 6 percent - a level that has been seen as unsustainable since the crisis escalated in 2011.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

This supports our view that by year end credit spreads will be wider than current levels which was predicated by our belief in higher inflation, yields and volatility in 2018.»

The yield on 10 - year Treasury bond is hovering near its highest levels in four years.

During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 % as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond which the bull market in bonds would end.

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.

The two - year Treasury yield hit its highest level in nearly a decade Monday morning, leaving investors questioning what this could signal for America's economy in the longer term.

Ultimately, he sees the S&P 500 in 2018 ending 9 percent higher than current levels as long as the 10 - year Treasury yield stays below 3 percent.

The benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield hit its highest level in four years Friday.

Those concerns sent the 10 - year U.S. note yield to its highest level in four years.

Yields on 10 - year Treasurys spiked to their highest level in roughly 10 months after Chinese officials recommended slowing or halting purchases of them.

«In the current environment, although inflation appears to be increasing, it's still not likely to cause 10 - year yields to rise to levels that would be problematic for equities.

Bond prices fell, sending the yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note to its highest level in four years, following newly released minutes from the U.S. Federal suggesting bullish sentiment among policy - makers and signalling more interest rate hikes ahead.

A close above that level could send the benchmark yields «well into the mid-4 percent area,» Ciana said in a report on Monday.

Certainly, it offers an attractive level for longer - term investors such as pension and insurance funds to lock in a relatively decent yield, and will tempt some portfolio managers to buy bonds rather than equities.

«Bond yields are at the lowest level that most retirees have seen in their lifetime,» Zemsky said.

Rising inflation expectations in recent months have been reflected in U.K. government bond (gilt) prices with the yield on 10 - year gilts touching its highest level since April this year at 1.509 percent in Monday's session.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

In the Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture, Governor Stephen S. Poloz shows how changing the mix of monetary and fiscal policies can yield the same outcomes for growth and inflation, but lead to different results for public sector and private sector debt levels, which can impact financial stability.

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Yields are close to their lowest levels in history.

Treasury yields edge lower on Thursday, with the 10 - year government bond hanging around its lowest level in about seven weeks

Long - dated Treasury yields early Thursday trade at the highest level in nearly a month, but shorter maturities saw a slight pullback in rates, as inflation expectations rose

Interest rate risk: is the risk that an investment's value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve, or in any other interest rate relationship.

All in all, we believe eurozone bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level of purchases, at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.

target and maximum levels, assumed, for Mr. Hoyt's Wholesale Banking Group, continued double - digit loan growth and favorable credit quality; for Mr. Oman's Home and Consumer Finance Group, improvement in the home mortgage business due to cost control and expected improvements in the yield curve favorably affecting earnings from hedging activities; and for Ms. Tolstedt's Community Banking Group, growth in deposits, especially low or no - cost core deposits, continued loan growth, and stable credit loss rates.

Elsewhere, at the single country and asset class fund levels, High Yield Bond Funds recorded their ninth consecutive outflow while Inflation Protected Bond Funds took in fresh money for the 10th time in the 11 weeks, year - to - date.

Over time, more and more of the fund could become invested at this new higher yield level, resulting in rising distributions of income.

U.S. rates hit super-low levels, as investors loaded up on Treasurys in the face of lower and negative yields in Europe and Japan, and if long - end rates rise in those regions, investors could dump Treasurys.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

All fund yields are subject to taxes at the local, state, or federal level, and in some cases, a combination of all these.

European government bond and U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields are trading at their highest levels in more than two months and the U.S. 30 - year Treasury bond yield reached a high for the year on Tuesday.

In other words, at a certain level higher bond yields create real competition for stocks, particularly dividend stocks, and put downward pressure on multiples.

For example, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields closed in on 2.50 percent last week, roughly 50 basis points (0.50 percent) higher than their late April levels.

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

With Group of Seven (G7) sovereign bond yields at historically low levels, some income - seeking investors have turned to higher - volatility securities like dividend - paying stocks in an attempt to capture additional income.

These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.

We invest in countries around the world at all levels of the capital structure — from debt (first lien bank debt, second lien loans and high yield bonds) to undervalued equity.

In their search for yield, investors have bid up dividend stocks to unprecedented levels.

Junk - bond ETFs rallied on Wednesday, as markets breathed relief that the «fiscal cliff» is no longer a concern and as a result, bond yields are under 6 percent for the first time ever, and junk ETF share prices hit levels not seen in years in some cases, according to an article on ETF Trends.