Sentences with phrase «much yield on these bonds»

The U.S. doesn't have to offer much yield on these bonds to generate interest, and as such, the SHY only yields 1.2 %.

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In a client note on Thursday titled «Yanking down the yields,» the interest - rates strategist projected that bond yields would be much lower than the markets expected because central banks including the Federal Reserve were reluctant to raise interest rates.

Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD Bank, doubts another rate hike in the U.S. would have much of an impact on bond yields in Canada.

The benchmark 10 - year yield hit a high of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much more important than Dow 20,000.»

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

When savings account rates and yields on government bonds are low, gold suddenly becomes much more attractive to hold as a store of value.

The institutions are not only using the money to meet their own short - term financing needs, they are also borrowing additional money to purchase the bonds of troubled countries and earn the spread between the yields on those bonds and the much lower rate the ECB is charging them for money.

A rise of 1 - 2 % isn't going to do much, and I don't think we'll rise by more than 1 - 2 % on the 10 - year bond yield anyway, so nobody needs to panic.

Over the long term the nominal return on a duration - managed bond portfolio (or bond index — the duration on those doesn't change very much) converges on the starting yield.

As bond yields surged on Friday, high - yielding segments of the equity market such as utilities and REITs came under the most pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rally.

Some of the best indicators for mortgage rate movement include the yield on 10 - year Treasury bonds from the government and the LIBOR — a rate that determines how much banks must pay to borrow money from each other.

Also, the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note was over 6 % 15 years ago versus roughly 2 % today, making the risk premium of stocks versus bonds much higher today than it was then.

By looking at the yields on bonds with different maturities you can get a picture of how much extra you can earn.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

He also discussed the large - scale asset purchases of the Fed's quantitative easing program, casting doubt on much of the literature of the day — which tended to find positive, but limited effects of such purchases on reducing bond yields.

Think about it: how much will a bond with a NEGATIVE yield be worth on the day that investors lose confidence in their central bankers» abilities to control the weather financial markets?

However at 10.75 %, the yield on the bond is still much higher than government's initial target of 8.5 % and also higher than the previous one which had coupon rates of 8 % and 8.5 % percent for its $ 2 billion bond issued.

Some of the best indicators for mortgage rate movement include the yield on 10 - year Treasury bonds from the government and the LIBOR — a rate that determines how much banks must pay to borrow money from each other.

On Tuesday, in response to evidence of accelerating yield pressures, as well the recognition that QE2 was much further along than investors widely seem to believe, we substantially cut our bond duration to about 1.5 years in Strategic Total Return.

With the yield on stocks so much better than bonds, investors can't go wrong.

Based on preliminary reviews of his clients living in Massachusetts, his initial estimate is that out - of - state muni bonds will need to generate as much as 0.40 % more in additional yield to offset new SALT limits.

In this example, corporate bonds are yielding 2.8 %, which on the surface is much higher than national munis.

This means the government is financing itself at close to zero cost for its short term borrowing and, further out on the curve, the cost of financing does not go up by much; as the yield - to - worst on the S&P / BGCantor 7 - 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index is now at 1.48 %.

The Canada 30 - year bond yield was well under 2 per cent for much of 2016 but rose significantly from 1.872 per cent on the day of the U.S. election to end the year an astounding 24 per cent higher.

On the downside, high - yield bonds are riskier and some of the companies that issue them are that much more likely to go to zero than a less risky issuer.

Adjustments are usually linked to an index such as U.S. Treasury bond yields or LIBOR according to a predetermined formula (with limits on how much the interest or coupon rate can change).

Also, the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note was over 6 % 15 years ago versus roughly 2 % today, making the risk premium of stocks versus bonds much higher today than it was then.

The S&P 500, on the other hand, yields 2.2 % — so there's really not much difference between the yields of stocks and bonds.

A New York Times column points out that with bond yields low even retirees who have saved up as much do not have a lot to live on.

I raise this ticklish issue (investors are passionate about their dividends) because the yield on a stock, unlike a bond, doesn't indicate how much the company is worth.

Yields are compressed across investment sectors, with the yield on the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index setting a record low last week, and a spread over Treasury yields that I doubt will even compensate for a very, very low level of corporate defaults — much less what one might anticipate should the U.S. join the recession that is already evident among much of the developed world (which I expect it Yields are compressed across investment sectors, with the yield on the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index setting a record low last week, and a spread over Treasury yields that I doubt will even compensate for a very, very low level of corporate defaults — much less what one might anticipate should the U.S. join the recession that is already evident among much of the developed world (which I expect it yields that I doubt will even compensate for a very, very low level of corporate defaults — much less what one might anticipate should the U.S. join the recession that is already evident among much of the developed world (which I expect it will).

If German stocks would yield 2,5 % that would be a pe ratio of 40; so it would be much cheaper than bonds, nonetheless I wouldn't be happy buying an ETF on the German DAX at a pe ratio of 40 in this example.

The yields on investment grade bonds do not fall as much as yields on Treasury bonds do.

It looked dumb on current performance, but if you look at investing as a business asking what level of surplus cash flows the underlying investments will throw off, it was an easy choice, because bonds were offering a much higher future yield than stocks.

In a follow - up comment, Shoehorn argued that: «When bonds have an effective PE of 100 (as they do in much of Europe), and inflation is only 1 %, you'd happily hold stocks on CAPE ratios of 50 (earnings yield 2 %), because that's the only way to make a positive return in that market.

But if you now have that same 0.5 % annual expense ratio on a bond fund that in today's yield environment is now somewhere between 2 % and 3 %, that 0.5 % annual fee is a much larger chunk of cost that's eating up that return.

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In other words, how much taxable yield you'd need to get on a municipal bond to end up with the same amount of money as you'd get on a federally - tax bond of the same maturity and credit quality.

In other words, how much federally - tax yield you'd need to get on a municipal bond to end up with the same amount of money as you'd get on a taxable bond of the same maturity and credit quality (after paying the taxes due).

It's not going to be tomorrow, but in reality, the yields on these bonds can't go down much further (and their corresponding prices can't go up much higher).

Nevertheless, total yields on commercial real estate, both current and prospective, are much higher than those for stocks or bonds.