Sentences with phrase «narrowing spreads on»

Low or negative rates have pushed investors out the risk spectrum, narrowing spreads on credit across global markets.

Not exact matches

In this model, the dealer will buy or sell from investors at a relatively narrow spread, but he has limits on how much risk he'll take.

Extreme risk aversion has abated; spreads have narrowed; capital markets have continued to thaw, though in some overseas cases this has relied heavily on central bank financing activities.

It would have almost no impact on U.S. interest rates, except to the extent perhaps of a slight narrowing of credit spreads to balance a slight increase in riskless rates.

This reduces your risk of being picked off by trading with informed traders, which lets you make a profit even on much narrower spreads.

Spreads on the lowest quality segment of the «junk» bond category, «C» rated bonds, have narrowed by an extraordinary 30 percentage points since late 2001, to around 5.5 percentage points.

The OCC's findings are consistent with more recent surveys: The Fed's October survey of senior U.S. loan officers found a growing number loosening standards for commercial and industrial loans, often by narrowing the spread between the interest rate on the loan and the cost of funds to the bank.

Now less than a year later, spreads on that same Spanish debt have narrowed by more than 50 % to 294 bps.

Spreads on emerging market debt have narrowed by around 500 basis points.

Amid OPEC supply compliance, WTI markets are focusing on dwindling inflow of Crude from Canada to Cushing due to limited accommodation on the Keystone pipeline.The disruption is providing a fillip to WTI prices while the stronger dollar has Brent prices falling and narrowing the WTI - Brent spread.

The spread between the yields on the 2 - year Treasury note and the 10 - year Treasury note narrowed by 70 basis points from 125 points at the start of 2017 to just 55 points at the end of 2017.

In contrast, there has been a narrowing in spreads on lower - rated bonds.

Spreads on European emerging market debt have also narrowed as investor concerns about political developments in Russia have subsided and the country's credit rating has been upgraded.

Equity markets have rallied further, while credit spreads on bonds have narrowed.

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).

The LPSY is most notably described as a series of peaks and valleys on a fairly narrow spread as the bulls and bears exchange positions.

Spreads on financial and industrial companies narrowed to the tightest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.

Spread filling in a 3 - inch strip along the narrow end of the phyllo, leaving a 2 - inch border on the sides.

Most ring slings on the market are designed in such a way that the fabric at the shoulder and back runs too narrow, or is sewn without pleats, so that it can not spread out generously across the back for weight distribution.

When a beam of light is shone through two narrow holes in a screen, the light waves leaving the holes spread out like ripples on a pond.

«Instead of spreading losses evenly across many items, consumers prefer to focus a shrinking budget on a narrower set of preferred products.»

Researchers who focus on the intersection of disease and ecology are narrowing in on a troubling question: are altered ecosystems making pathogens more virulent and likely to spread?

The analysis of processes contributing to climate feedbacks in models and recent studies based on large ensembles of models suggest that in the future it may be possible to use observations to narrow the current spread in model projections of climate change.

That's quite a spread, but you can narrow it down by basing your protein needs on your body weight.

With the field narrowed down to The Big Five, the campaigns spread their game across the country and play to their strengths - with eyes squarely focused on the all - important upcoming prize: Super Tuesday.

The gear ratio spread on the automatic transmission is slightly narrower than the DCT (6.0 vs. 6.38).

It flows faster when it was younger and the course is narrower: at the end of all things time has spread and slowed, lik oil spilled on a still pond.

Since her marriage to Edward Swift, three years after the sudden death of her first husband Horace Torrington, Charlotte had changed her position at the breakfast table in order to accommodate her new husband's needs: specifically, aiding him in the spreading of toast and cutting of meat, owing to his having suffered the loss of his left arm at the age of twenty - three in an unfortunate encounter with the narrow wheels of a speeding gig, out of which he had fallen on the driveway of his then home in County Wicklow.

For details on the apartment loan we track see the notes in last week's post here: Apartment Building Loan Rates Fall as Spreads Narrow.

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.

The narrower spread makes sense in light of the July Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending that reported loosening lending standards for commercial real estate loans (including apartments) even as loan demand picked up: Continue reading 10 yr fixed apartment loan rate remains below 5.1 % as 10 yr Treasury ranges in 2.6 - 2.7 % area

In foreign exchange, the standard bid - ask spread in EUR / USD interbank quotes is between two and four pips - the price move in a given exchange - depending on the amount being traded and the time of the day; spreads are typically narrowest in the morning in New York when the European market is also open.

Note also in Figure 5, the spread briefly narrowing from 3.5 sigma to 3.0 sigma before returning to 3.5 sigma on this rally.

With a total return of nearly 15 % year to date, however, this historically «risky» segment of the bond market may be overbought as spreads on their yields narrow.

I focus on corporate bonds, and if you use an online broker such as Fidelity, Vanguard, or Schwab, you will see a robust level of inventory with fairly narrow bid - ask spreads.

If you're looking to capitalize on smaller market moves within shorter time frames, the Nadex spreads with 2 - hour durations and narrower ranges may be a better choice.

Both aim to narrow the spread between mortgage bonds and Treasuries, particularly on the short end.

That, in turn, has bolstered the credit quality of emerging - market debt, resulting in a narrowing of the spread between the yield on emerging - market debt and that available on U.S. Treasury bonds.

You would not compare that measurement with the mean height of Dutch people or even the confidence interval on that mean (which gets vanishingly narrow with a large sample size), you would compare it with the overall spread of the height distribution in that country: the prediction interval.

As far as I can tell it is based on the estimate of the mean trend (the C.I. of which narrows with the number of runs), not on the spread of trends per se.

Inflorescence a densely flowered, cylindrical spike, 20 - 35 mm long, 8 - 11 mm thick near the base and narrowing slightly toward the blunt apex, solitary in the leaf axil, or solitary or in clusters of 2 - 4 in the axil of small spines on short, lateral, usually leafless, axillary branches; peduncles glabrous to lightly puberulent, 5 - 15 mm long, 2 - 4 mm thick, thickest just below the inflorescence; involucre usually puberulent, 4 - lobed, the lobes spreading, located near the base of the peduncle.

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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.

If such narrowing spreads occur, seniors housing cap rates may not experience the same magnitude of upward pressure that expected rising interest rates could impose on other commercial property types.

As the recovery has gone on that spread has narrowed.

The market for retail has been so buoyant that spreads on interest rates have been narrowing.

Despite the fact that investors pushed back on aggressively priced properties, the spread between asking and closing prices narrowed by two basis points, and now stands at about 26 basis points, Feeney says.

If such narrowing spreads occur from today's 500 - basis point differential, seniors housing cap rates may not experience the same magnitude of upward pressure that the expected rising interest rates could impose on other commercial property types.

Spreads have narrowed significantly on CMBS issues while REIT returns have been lackluster.