Sentences with phrase «now yield points»

The biggest difference is that destroyed enemies now yield points, and destroying multiple enemies in succession will begin a combo counter, which in turn modifies the points granted in each kill.

Not exact matches

Ms. Jones points out that from a low yield of 1.38 percent in July 2016, the 10 - year Treasury note now yields nearly 3 percent.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»

The yield on the 10 year Treasury roughly doubled between May of last year and January of 2014 and has now slid back 50 basis points this year — which may not sound like a lot — but on a percentage basis is rather substantial.

Yields on 10 - year bonds fell by around 40 basis points, to 5.3 per cent, by early March but are now around 5.9 per cent — a net rise of 25 basis points since the time of the last Statement.

In Europe, while the rise in yields was a little slower to occur, it has picked up pace in the last three months as signs of economic recovery in Europe have strengthened, and the net rise in yields from the early 1999 lows is now about 140 points.

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.

Yields have been in a bear market for rather a long time now, though a grudging one, judging by its protracted trajectory, though I'll grant the nearly 100 basis point gains in 10 years since 2.05 percent as recently as September is rather stellar.

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.

Now we know why you have to use Goebbles favorite techniques including,» «The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly — it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.»

Barrett does think researching super agers will yield specific recommendations at some point, but she cautions that for now she can only make «reasoned speculation.»

And if you look at a common gauge of future inflation expectations — the difference between the yield on long - term Treasury bonds and that of Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities, now about 1.8 to two percentage points — investors apparently believe inflation will continue to mosey along at a relatively sluggish rate well into the future.

Right now, that yield is at 2.99 %, which is two basis points above where it started the day.

If you are also looking for price appreciation, Stovall also offers up this tidbit: «With the S&P 500 now yielding 2.0 % versus 2.2 % for the 10 - year Treasury, history reminds us that since 1953 whenever the yield on the S&P 500 was within one percentage point of the 10 - year yield, the «500» gained an average of 11 % in price in the subsequent 12 months and was higher about 80 % of the time.»

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

The investor who is focused only on the dividend will enthusiastically point out that his income has risen by 5 % every year, and that he's now earning a 6.5 % yield on cost.

As a Wall Street Journal article pointed out, many bond mutual funds are reaching for yield now.

Once the breakeven point is passed, the investor has «paid for» the conversion feature in full and now earns the higher yield as long as he owns the convertible.

«The yield on that same benchmark is now about 60 basis points higher — around 2.60 or so — and that's maybe looking a little more attractive relative to other investment opportunities.

I do not go over my picks just yet but these are just listed with their yields for now as points of interest.

Of course, now that the U.S. Federal Reserve has raised rates once [from 25 basis points to 50 basis points in December 2015, the first rise in seven years] and threatens to do so again, investors are staying near the short end of the yield curve, knowing that the longer you go out the bigger the capital losses should rates spike significantly higher.

I will say it now, the FOMC will cut 50 basis points today, the stock market will rally, and the yield curve will steepen.

And right now, we're at an inflection point with the five - year yield recently hitting its highest level in almost seven years.

Also, like the Fortune column points out, the thesis that interest rates will inevitably rise, so bonds are a bad idea but stocks are now undervalued because of wide premiums over bonds is seriously flawed because if bond yields rise, it will be bad for bonds but the equity premium will drop as well, so it may not be necessarily good for stocks.

Well, now they will have to bear that expense, and yes, as Daniel points out, that will make the muni yield curve steepen.

But the sector remains on my radar, as I suspect it's now close to a consolidation point where a dividend / yield - driven REIT business model takes over (average large - cap dividend yield's now only 2.2 %), which could trigger a new wave of investor sentiment & demand.

A diversified portfolio of emerging market bonds is now yielding 2.5 percentage points more than a portfolio of Canadian bonds (or two percentage points more than U.S. bonds).

At no point has the yield become 5.65 % like we have now.

Previously that dollar would yield 1 Velocity Point, and now it will get 0.75 Velocity Points.

If CO2 and H2O molecules now are cooled below the previous equilibrium point by having their radiation allowed to escape to outer space, then I believe these molecules must then tend to absorb more energy than yield energy with each interaction with the other components of the atmosphere until that atmosphere as a whole reaches a new thermal equilibrium where the net radiation going out and the net radiation coming in (primarily from the sun and the surrounding atmosphere) is the same.

Even a point or two knocked off worldwide economic growth means hundreds of trillions of dollars in lost annual GDP a century from now (2 % growth yields a world economy of $ 450 trillion in a century.

«Now I've got 200 basis points of arbitrage, to create a much higher yield for myself and my investors,» Board says.