Sentences with phrase «notes at a high yield»

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 29 billion in seven - year notes at a high yield of 2.952 percent on Wednesday.

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 35 billion in five - year notes at a high yield of 2.837 percent on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Typically, higher interest rates make existing bonds less attractive to buyers, since they can get new notes at loftier yields.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 2.314 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was also higher at 2.877 percent.

«Net short positions on 10 - year Treasury notes are at historical highs, implying that rising US bond yields remains among hedge funds» major convictions.»

Mark Vaselkiv, portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, noted that «Einstein said there were three great forces of nature: gravity, electro magnetism, and compounded interest... high yield is an asset class that ultimately capitalizes on the latter.

Additionally, a holder of a TIPS bond is impacted by inflation; if inflation rises the holder could receive both higher income and a higher principal payment at maturity (although it should be noted that TIPS typically have lower yields than conventional fixed rate bonds).

The yield on benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes at the end of trading on Monday, down from 2.85 percent on Friday, the highest level since January 2014.

Treasury yields leapt again yesterday at the long end, with the 10 - year note climbing above 3.7 %, its highest close since November.

The month of May closed on a high note for bonds as the drop in yields saw the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index closed at a yield of 2.47 %.

Note that the peak in yields at the beginning of 2014 when the taper tantrum had run its course was at 3.00 percent — quite a bit higher than the 2.30 percent level at the end of the most recent upward move.

The second was the introduction of several high - yielding portfolio credit - linked notes that were targeted at retail investors.

«Certain ratios yield high survivorship at some sites, but not others,» the new study notes.

«It may still not be perfect, but it will at least be substantially better than current vaccines,» says Kawaoka, who notes no one else has successfully tried to produce high - yield influenza B vaccine virus before now.

It should be noted, though, that we as a nation have been relying upon similar high - stakes educational policies since the late 1970s (i.e., for now over 35 years); however, we have literally no research evidence that these high - stakes accountability policies have yielded any of their intended effects, as still perpetually conceptualized (see, for example, Nevada's recent legislative ruling here) and as still advanced via large - and small - scale educational policies (e.g., we are still A Nation At Risk in terms of our global competitiveness).

Note from Daily Trade Alert: A couple weeks ago we launched a new regular column here at Daily Trade Alert called High - Yield Trade of the Week.

Early in the week, the benchmark 10 - year U.S. Treasury note broke above 3.1 percent for the first time since 2011, while the two - year yield traded at its highest level in nearly 10 years.

JP Morgan's Thomas Lee notes that if the S&P earnings yield merely equaled the high yield bond (a frequent past metric), the S&P 500 would be at 1600.

Additionally, a holder of a TIPS bond is impacted by inflation; if inflation rises the holder could receive both higher income and a higher principal payment at maturity (although it should be noted that TIPS typically have lower yields than conventional fixed rate bonds).

Even as defined benefit managers pursued seeming diversification with bad payoffs as noted above, and should have sought long term guarantees, at a time like now, where guarantees are tremendously expensive, and yields are high because of possible default, it is a time to take risk, and fund the best entities that may not make it.

In general, average retail investors reach for yield at the wrong time, and Wall Street is more than happy to facilitate that through structured notes and other high yielding investments where the risk is greater than the excess yield.

Note from Daily Trade Alert: A few weeks ago we launched a new regular column here at Daily Trade Alert called High - Yield Trade of the Week.

AGNC pays $ 2.75 annual dividend yield: 11.80 % Its projected 10YOC is 11.80 %, payout ratio 129 % (note, this is a REIT, the ratio will be at or higher than 100 %) 5 yr average growth: -6.88 % paid dividend since: 2008 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 0 years

PSEC pays $ 1.33 annual dividend yield: 12.90 % Its projected 10YOC is 19.47 %, payout ratio 171 % (note, this is a BDC, the ratio will be at or higher than 100 %) 5 yr average growth: -3.43 % paid dividend since: 2004 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 2 years

Note from Daily Trade Alert: We're launching a new regular column here at Daily Trade Alert called High - Yield Trade of the Week.

Look at the Thirty, and don't let the Five - year note get a higher yield than it.

The new debt raised by WFC and JPM will be primarily at this holding company level, though presumably the bank loans and revolving loan will be fully secured by Heinz's subsidiaries and their assets, while new high - yield notes would be unsecured.

Yes, I know there are loads of statistics — and Wall Street's marketers excel most at self - promoting numerology — that high - yield stocks have been a better investment than Treasury notes, «over the long term.»

Note that the Sears bond has a higher yield throughout the period, reflecting the fact a corporate bond trades at higher yields than a government bond.

I like this little dig at the denier - sceptic - contrarians who appear to be tree ring obsessed: «It is intriguing to note that the removal of tree - ring data from the proxy dataset yields less, rather than greater, peak cooling during the 16th — 19th centuries for both CPS and EIV methods... contradicting the claim... that tree - ring data are prone to yielding a warm - biased «Little Ice Age» relative to reconstructions using other high - resolution climate proxy indicators.»

At the end of 2018, will the yield on the 10 - year note be (a) below 2.50 percent (20 percent chance); (b) between 2.50 percent and 3.00 percent (70 percent chance); (c) higher than 3.00 percent (10 percent chance)?