Sentences with phrase «now higher yielding bonds»

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The sell off in the market for high yield debt, or junk bonds, is now hitting a type of structured bond that is similar to the the type that blew up in the financial crisis.

Anyone reading this who has investments in high yield bond funds should get out now.

Market participants are looking forward to getting their first major reading on earnings from the biggest technology - sector players in the coming days, but for now, investor sentiment has been able to overcome what would ordinarily be a troubling rise in long - term bond yields that could signal a steeper move higher for interest rates in the near future.

After providing double - digit returns for many years, REITs are now well off the previous highs and trade at an estimated 15 % discount to net asset value (Source: TD Securities) and yielding an average of 7 %, a spread of 2.75 % over 10 - year bonds.

Depending on your risk tolerance and familiarity with individual corporations, now could be an opportune time to consider high yielding corporate bonds as part of your investment portfolio.

Now, since his stunning upset victory in the U.S. presidential election, bond yields have spiked to their highest levels since last January, and many people are putting the blame on him for that.

After touching a low of 2.7 per cent in June, yields on 10 - year indexed bonds now stand at around 3.3 per cent, 15 basis points higher than their level in early May.

With the outlook for growth in the euro area remaining fairly subdued, German bond yields are now below those in the US after having been around 30 basis points higher for much of the past year.

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

In 1845, the Bank of England tightened its monetary policy by raising interest rates, which has a tendency to pop economic bubbles as capital is no longer as cheap as it once was and now higher - yielding bonds become more attractive to investors again.

A good example of this is that our bond yields are now virtually the same as US bond yields, whereas five years or 10 years ago it was not uncommon for the gap to be as high as five percentage points; some of this was a risk premium and some of it reflected our higher inflation.

If you think bond yields will normalize higher, perhaps cash is the place you would rather be for now.

Color me neutral now, because the supply of cash to invest in high yield bonds, stock IPOs, and private equity is substantial.

Even if a bond fund manager has discretion with their maturities, I might opt for GICs over a lot of bond funds these days because reasonably conservative, high - quality bonds might only be paying 3 % yields right now.

With Treasury yields so low, most high quality bonds are not attractive now.

If you sell out of high - yield bonds now because you're worried about defaults, you could miss out on potential gains if the economic growth improves or if rates stay the same.

The proximate cause of this sell - off is a reappraisal of risk in the credit markets, starting first at subprime but now having spread to the riskier parts of corporate credit, namely high - yield bonds and loans to finance buy - outs.

And right now there's just a single ETF tracking one of these indexes: the PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio (PHB).

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«With today's launch, knowledgeable investors now have an even larger suite of geared ETFs to help manage their exposures to high yield and investment grade corporate bonds.»

The yield spread between high yield and investment grade municipal bonds is now at 265bps or 2.65 % (on March 15, 2012 the spread was 351bps).

We are now able to access the high - yield municipal bond space with ease, something we would not normally do with individual bonds.

Given this, if you buy bonds now (either directly or through a bond fund), you are not only paying a high price for the bond, but you are also locking in a smaller yield.

Because bond prices increase when yields fall, these bonds are now trading at a premium (that is, their price is higher than their face value).

The VanEck VectorsTM Global Fallen Angel High Yield Bond UCITS ETF and the VanEck VectorsTM Emerging Markets High Yield Bond UCITS ETF are now listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Yields for two and ten year treasuries as well as for high grade bonds are at five year highs right now.

Now the only «rally talk» is centering on how high longer - term bond yields might climb.

Right now, higher bond yields are bullish for stocks.

With the Fed now hiking, the bellwether 10 - year Treasury note yield has risen from 1.4 % in mid 2016 to nearly 3 % recently, lifting yields on other high - quality bonds.

The average yield for a bond in the high yield sector now is around 6.3 %.

So people who maybe in the past used to own corporate bonds now own dividend stocks, indiscriminately, because the yields there are higher than some corporate bonds.

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Now, we don't have any significant data series on high yield bonds.

Right now, yields for REIT's are about 3 % higher than government bond yields, meaning REIT investors are being well compensated for taking on additional risk.

As for distressed, if we look at high - yield bonds as a proxy, 5 % yields now leave little room for error... and let's not even mention Euro high - yield, where the spread actually fell below the most recent default rate!?

A further unpleasant reality adds to the industry's dim prospects: Insurance earnings are now benefitting [sic] from «legacy» bond portfolios that deliver much higher yields than will be available when funds are reinvested during the next few years — and perhaps for many years beyond that.

Puerto Rico municipal bonds are now trading at levels more appropriate for high yield taxable corporate bonds.

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«Right now there are fantastic opportunities in municipal bonds... I have locked in... long - term high - quality municipal bonds yielding the taxable equivalent of 11 % to over 12 %!

When the Fed buys Treasuries neither the banks or most mutual fund managers are able to sell their now expensive tbills for higher yielding cash or other credit bonds.

Some fixed income — now that Fannie and Freddie are wards of the state, why not go for the higher yields available on their bonds?

Now that high yield has recovered, some areas are going to start to trade like bonds again, while others will continue to move with stocks.

With preferreds and high yield bonds now at or near pre-Lehman levels, how long will it take for common stocks to get there as well?

So now I put about 20 % down and borrow the rest to invest in REITS, pref shares, high yield bonds, and then a few smaller amounts in broad indexes for emerging markets, U.S., International, Canada.

Fourth, according to Bloomberg, U.S. exploration and production companies now comprise an ominous 17 percent of U.S. high - yield or junk bonds.