Sentences with phrase «massive yield losses»

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In a year that the main office was predicting massive losses, initial meetings with company executives yielded nothing but good reports.

And retail investors, who have poured massive amounts of money into bond mutual funds because cash had a near - zero yield, can now park money in T - bills and earn close to 2 % with no risk of loss.

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

Underwriting volume this year for high - yield securities, known widely on Wall Street as junk debt, has sunk at firms such as Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan Chase, adding more salt to the wounds already inflicted by massive losses on souring mortgage securities.

The present environment is characterized by unusually overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, with rising 10 - year Treasury bond yields, heavy insider selling, valuations on «forward earnings» appearing reasonable only because profit margins are more than 70 % above historical norms (fully explained by the negative sum of government and personal savings as a share of GDP), with the S&P 500 at a 4 - year market high, in a mature market advance, with lagging employment indicators still positive but more than half of all OECD countries already in GDP contraction, Europe in recession, Britain on the cusp, and the EU imposing massive losses on depositors in order to protect lenders in an unstable banking system where Cyprus is the iceberg's tip.