Sentences with phrase «narrow spreads over»

Investors took more risk because they thought the Fed would protect them, and so they leveraged up on investments at narrow spreads over risk - free investments in order to meet return targets.

Not exact matches

However, he figures this spread will narrow in coming months, suggesting bargain - basement mortgage rates will be unsustainable over the long term.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

The decline in issuance was sharper than can be readily explained by seasonality and the fall in housing loan approvals in 2004 and appears to have been driven by a fall in issuer supply rather than investor demand, given that primary spreads have narrowed by at least 5 basis points over the period, to historically low levels.

European bond markets initially welcomed the deal made at the July summit, although the narrowing of spreads for peripheral bonds over German Bunds was relatively muted, perhaps signaling a measure of skepticism among investors about the ability of the eurozone to survive in the absence of a formal mechanism that ensures the sharing of liabilities among member states.

The net rise in Australian long bond yields over recent months has been less than in corresponding US yields, so the spread between Australian and US yields has narrowed.

US corporate spreads narrowed modestly over the three months since the last Statement, from levels already well below historical averages (Graph 16).

Credit spreads confirm the speculative nature of this market with spreads narrowing 12 basis points over the last month.

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

All investors have benefited from the narrower spreads and enormous drop in commissions that markets have seen over the past decade.

Quickly take the tea towel off spread your frosting over the sponge, scatter with blueberries is using and at the narrow edge as gently as you can roll the sponge up leaving it seam side down.

It reveals how the outlook for U.S. home values has shifted over time (from Q1 2010 to Q1 2016), and the degree to which the spread between the most optimistic and most pessimistic quartiles of experts narrowed during that timeframe.

But the Fed is not so sure, and officials note that corporate bond spreads have narrowed over U.S. Treasuries, and that although mortgage rates have risen, they are still low.

The trader is looking for either a widening or narrowing of the spread relationship over time.

John Miller, fund manager and co-head of fixed income at Nuveen, says that the funds» performance is driven not so much by duration or yield - curve positioning, but more by yield, credit selection and bonds that have the opportunity for credit spreads to narrow over time.

Until recently, credit spreads had been narrowing to unusually tight levels over the past several years; low interest rates had starved fixed income investors from the yields available in years past.

The savvy investor who bought in 1992 and has held to 1997 has an excess spread of 21.25 % (5 years at 425 bps) and an appreciation from spread narrowing of 6.9 % for a total outperformance of 28.2 % versus Canada's over five years.

EPR's share price has struggled over the past year, pushing up its cost of equity capital to levels that leave the firm with a much narrower investment spread.

Spices from the Islands of Pemba and Zanzibar were collected here, spreading their fragrant aroma over the house and the surrounding narrows streets of Stone Town.

Spreads on the AAA CMBX index have narrowed by more than 85 basis points over the past three months.

Spreads on the AAA and BBB CMBX indices have narrowed by over 130 basis points and 1,500 basis points, respectively, over the past three months.

CMBS spreads declined in response to the announcement, with the AAA CMBX Index spread over swaps narrowing by about 200 basis points from late April through mid-May.

Spreads over the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield narrowed to a bandwidth of 370 to 430 basis points compared with 430 to 500 basis points three months ago.

«Certainly if the 10 - year U.S. Treasury climbs in a predictable steady path due to positive economic news such as positive job growth and steady corporate investment, a narrowing of the [spread over Treasuries] could be easy for lenders to manage,» RCA researchers write.

For example, over a three - year period, the average spread difference between single - A rated corporate bonds was 28 basis points, but this year that difference narrowed to two basis points, Wheeler explains.

Given solid operating and investment performance of seniors housing properties in recent years — especially the resiliency demonstrated during the Great Recession — as well as the potential portfolio diversification attributes that the sector can provide to investors, one could argue that seniors housing's spread over the risk - free rate should be narrower or compress with time.

She had to keep the home's original foundation because of zoning regulations, so she built upward, spreading 2,000 square feet over five narrow half stories.