Sentences with phrase «mostly bonds rated»

If in doubt, stick to funds that buy mostly bonds rated AA and AAA.

It owns mostly bonds rated double - A or better.

Not exact matches

After interest rates rose post Trump election victory, bonds and REIT funds got hit by 3 % — 10 % mostly.

The ECB's decision to start buying $ 60 billion per month of mostly government bonds in March as part of a $ 1.1 trillion QE package has helped ease credit by lowering interest rates, although the rate of improvement might seem disappointing in the short term.

For now, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a limited duration of about 2 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 2 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

However, bond yields have been mostly driven by US developments, where bond yields appear unusually low against a background of strong growth, rising inflation and increasing short - term interest rates.

We don't discuss bonds often in this blog, mostly because interest rates are currently at artificial lows.

Municipal Bonds — Municipal yields were mostly down this week, with the exception of the 2 - year AAA - rated bonds that increased by 3 bps to yield 1.Bonds — Municipal yields were mostly down this week, with the exception of the 2 - year AAA - rated bonds that increased by 3 bps to yield 1.bonds that increased by 3 bps to yield 1.76 %.

It is mostly invested in BB and B rated corporate bonds.

The forecasted move itself is small, and it mostly affects shorter maturity bonds that do not have as much interest rate sensitivity as longer maturity bonds.

If you want to pick your own non-core high - yield North American corporate bond fund, TD offers the TD High Yield Bond Fund, which focuses mainly on BB and B rated issues at the higher quality end of below - investment grade and mostly hedges its U.S. currency exposure back to the Canadian dolbond fund, TD offers the TD High Yield Bond Fund, which focuses mainly on BB and B rated issues at the higher quality end of below - investment grade and mostly hedges its U.S. currency exposure back to the Canadian dolBond Fund, which focuses mainly on BB and B rated issues at the higher quality end of below - investment grade and mostly hedges its U.S. currency exposure back to the Canadian dollar.

We know that the bond yields mostly determine the interest rate on the fixed rate mortgage.

Across the spectrum, long term bonds outperformed short term bonds as interest rates mostly held steady.

Bonds that feature maturity date of a longer period will mostly require a cash flow discount rate that is higher and also features a risk of debt.

These days, there is an ETF for all the main types of bonds — government, corporate, municipal, short - / medium - / long duration, investment grade, non-investment grade, emerging markets, developed markets, interest rate hedged, convertible, inflation - linked, variable rate, and mostly everything in between.

The Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate Bond index is a common proxy for the overall bond market, and it includes mostly government bonds, which tend to be more susceptible to interest rate chanBond index is a common proxy for the overall bond market, and it includes mostly government bonds, which tend to be more susceptible to interest rate chanbond market, and it includes mostly government bonds, which tend to be more susceptible to interest rate changes.

In the current interest rate environment, that means I'm buying some junk bonds, no bonds with high credit ratings, and mostly bonds just above the traditional junk rating of Baa for Moody's.

Its bond portfolio consists mostly of investment grade securities (bonds rated Class 2).

Mortgage interest rates are mostly impacted by movements in the bond market, not the Federal Reserve's short - term interest rate policy.