Sentences with phrase «more than government bonds»

Jeremy Racicot, CFP and co-founder of The Bay West Group, is putting his clients» fixed - income dollars into corporate bonds, or company debt, because they pay more than government bonds.

Dividend stocks currently yield more than government bonds in major markets such as Canada and may remain a valuable source of income even as interest rates slowly begin to rise south of the border.

Dividend stocks currently yield more than government bonds in major markets such as Canada and may remain a valuable source of income even as interest rates slowly begin to rise south of the border.

Not exact matches

The yield on a 10 - year Canadian government bond is just 1.7 %, compared to more than 5 % a decade ago.

Japanese government bonds skidded in their worst sell - off in more than three years, despite weaker stocks, accelerating a slide begun in the wake of last Friday's Bank of Japan easing steps that disappointed many investors.

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.

As the Christian Science Monitor noted, that's probably a more realistic concern for China, which holds $ 1.3 trillion in U.S. government bonds, than Washington missing interest or principal payments.

Investment - grade corporates pay about two percentage points more than short - term government bonds, and they're less risky than they used to be.

The simplified explanation for this aberrant investing disaster was a dramatic rise in interest rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in 1981.

But the bank has taken more extreme measures, such as ramping up purchases to more than 40 percent of the market overall and saying it would control the yield curve by keeping the 10 - year government bond yield around 0 percent.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

A well - functioning local - currency bond market allows a government much more economic policy flexibility than can be experienced when tied to foreign currency borrowing.

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.

For example, the Bank of Japan is currently targeting the purchase of more than $ 700 billion of Japanese government bonds per year, or approximately 15 % of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

It helps the economy more, for example, if they put the money toward productive new companies than if they invest in government bonds.

China is also the biggest creditor of the United States: It owns more US government bonds than any other country.

«I expect protracted negotiations as the international organizations will ask for more than amending the central bank law,» Daniel Bebesy, who helps oversee $ 1.5 billion mostly in Hungarian government bonds at Budapest Fund Management, said by phone today.

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...

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

The fund I think you might for inflation protection is the M&G UK Inflation - linked Corporate Bond Fund (actually these days it seems to have more government paper than corporates, despite the name).

In just one quarter the S&P 500 returned more than a seven - year U.S. government bond would have returned over its entire lifetime.

Currently, the U.S. Treasury Department is taking far more of it than it should, and mortgage bonds are being propped up artificially with another $ 1 trillion of government guaranteed paper being issued in 2009.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

Municipalities have more risk than U.S. government bonds of similar duration and credit quality.

More than 70 % of the bonds in developed - market government bond indexes today have yields of 1 % or lower, as the chart below shows.

For more than a week, the US dollar has risen sharply as US government bond yields have surged — with the benchmark 10 - Year Treasury yield briefly...

The equity market has become a more reliable generator of the reoccurring cash flows that the Boomers need than the government bond market has.»

Just as well, since more than a quarter of JPMorgan's Global Government Bond Index, or $ 6.4 trillion worth of debt, was trading with a negative yield last week.

The European Central Bank has spent more than 1 trillion euros since launching its government bond - buying programme 18 months ago.

Among US government bond ETFs, short - term bond ETFs accumulated more than $ 6 billion in flows, while long - term bond ETFs saw $ 0.3 billion in outflows amid changes in volatility and shifting interest rate expectations (see US government bond ETF flow).

This second trend borne from ultra-loose monetary policy has forced many investors to seek out higher - yielding alternatives including dividend stocks, which, on average, yield more than 10 - year government bonds in most major developed markets, including Canada (see chart below).

Improper public to private communication might seem trivial in an environment as open as bond markets but the truth is that private actors are poorly informed and, in more cases than expected, react to media reports rather than information from the Spanish government or other official sources.

Remember, it's not a bank loan type of relationship the US government has with China, it's a bond investor type of relationship, and there are a lot more investors than just China.

«Getting on the housing ladder» may sound like an innocuous phrase, but it in fact refers to accessing the most desirable financial asset, capable of increasing our paper wealth many times more than moving job or investing in the stock market or government bonds.

Gold is more volatile than U.S. Government Bonds.

All this goes against the grain of the way that financing U.S. state and local government infrastructure worked for more than a century: through municipal bonds.

The government had opted for the single - purpose the Energy Sector Levy Act (ESLA) Bond to mobilise not more than GH cents 6 billion.

Their Bond is more low - rent thug than suave cosmopolitan — more government assassin than super spy.

«In 2008 alone, state and local governments spent more than $ 66 billion to improve the overall quality of school facilities, and another $ 400 billion is owed in school improvement and construction bond debt.»

Nationwide, state and local governments owe more for retirement benefits, when liabilities are conservatively valued, than for bonded debt issued for capital purposes.

The main takeaway from the $ 190 billion annual spending plan — $ 132 billion in day - to - day general fund spending and the rest in special fund and bond fund spending — is that it sets aside more money than ever for the state's rainy - day fund instead of expanding a range of government services.

Bonds have a maturity date, and if you stay with AAA bonds, you have an excellent chance of getting all your money back + interest on that date, regardless of what bonds do in the meantime; if you only get government bonds, you are guaranteed to get your money back by full tax power of government — more secure than Bonds have a maturity date, and if you stay with AAA bonds, you have an excellent chance of getting all your money back + interest on that date, regardless of what bonds do in the meantime; if you only get government bonds, you are guaranteed to get your money back by full tax power of government — more secure than bonds, you have an excellent chance of getting all your money back + interest on that date, regardless of what bonds do in the meantime; if you only get government bonds, you are guaranteed to get your money back by full tax power of government — more secure than bonds do in the meantime; if you only get government bonds, you are guaranteed to get your money back by full tax power of government — more secure than bonds, you are guaranteed to get your money back by full tax power of government — more secure than a CD.

Trade: Sell U.S. government bonds when credit appetite is high, as signaled by the CAI being more than one standard deviation above its 50 - day moving average, and buy when it is low, or more than one standard deviation below its 50 - day moving average.

The last time I checked, they were more than a full 2 % over Government of Canada bond yields.

Since the late 1990s, 10 - year Government of Canada bonds have yielded about 1 % more than five - year GICs on average.

What's more, GICs pay higher yields than government bonds: today you can build a five - year ladder with an average yield over 2 %, with no credit risk and no chance of a capital loss.

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

Strong demand for broad market and US government ETFs contributed to a more than $ 15 billion gain in net flows (see Bond ETFs keep momentum going).

Lower Taxes — The U.S. government taxes most stock dividends at a lower rate than more ordinary income from cash, certificates of deposit, or bond interest payments.

Treasury bond: A U.S. government security maturing in more than ten years.