Sentences with phrase «number of bond indices»

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The chart shows the number of transactions in Treasury bonds divided by the MOVE index, or Merrill Lynch Option Volatility Estimate, which measures Treasury market volatility.

The private sector economists are surveyed for only a selective number of aggregate economic and financial indicators: real gross domestic product (GDP) growth; GDP inflation, nominal GDP;, the 3 - month treasury bill rate;, the 10 - year government bond rate;, the unemployment rate; the, consumer price index; the exchange rate (US cents / Cdn $); and finally, and U.S. real GDP growth.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

P.S. I should reiterate that these are tax - deferred plans and while I have a number of investment options (like the mentioned «2020» plans and bond type index funds, simply moving to «cash» is not an available option).

While the number is small, many of them represent new offerings from «A» tier shops: DoubleLine Global Bond, Matthews Asia Value and two dividend - oriented international index funds from Vanguard

The S&P / BGCantor U.S. Treasury Bond Index finished last week slightly down -0.02 % after the market traded up at the end of the week in reaction to the Nonfarm Payroll number.

The March rebalancing of the S&P U.S. Distressed High Yield Corporate Bond Index saw another increase in the number of qualifying constituents.

These funds have no choice but to use sampling: they buy a smaller number of bonds that approximate the overall characteristics of the index (average term, coupon, duration, etc.).

Diversity & number of bond issues: The nearly 100,000 bond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond marbond issues: The nearly 100,000 bond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond marbond issues tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond marBond Index illustrates that the municipal market has many smaller and less frequent issuers than the corporate bond marbond market.

Similar to mutual funds, ETFs allow access to a number of types of stocks and bonds (or asset classes), provide an efficient means to construct a fully diversified portfolio, include index - and more active - management strategies and are comprised of individual stocks or bonds.

After relying on Vanguard bond index funds for a number of years, SMI introduced a couple of actively managed funds to our Upgrading lineup in 2014.

To date the more speculative indices S&P / LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index, S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index and S&P Municipal Bond High Yield Index are returning 0.10 %, 1.11 % and a just slightly negative number of -0.16 %, respectively.

The suppliers of bond ETFs get around the liquidity problem by using representative sampling, which simply means tracking only a sufficient number of bonds to represent an index.

Like stock indexes, most of the bond indexes use a limited number of bond issues to chart the price movement of a larger universe of bonds.

Tracking a large bond index is difficult and expensive, so index funds pegged to the DEX Universe always use «representative sampling,» selecting a smaller of number bonds with similar overall characteristics.

I have owned the TD Bond Index Fund (TDB909) for a number of years.

Index: a selected number of stocks or bonds used to represent an asset class or segment of the market.

A number of the fixed rate deals should find their way into the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index.

The interest rates for bonds with floating coupon rates are based on a benchmark, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), adding a certain number of basis points (bps) to the benchmark.

The number of deals tracked in the index has declined in 2014 as the pace of new issues qualifying for the index did not outpace bonds maturing.

They have a number of options that might work for you, starting with iShares DEX Real Return Bond Index Fund (TSX: XRB).

The first week of August 2015 saw the yield - to - worst of the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index close almost flat, after moving 12 bps higher on the release of stronger Factory Orders and ADP Employment numbers.

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The solution is to include a larger number of bonds, as do many indexes.

Perform the math with the index rate of return numbers, using the same percentage of stocks (55 %), bonds (35 %), and cash (10 %) held.

The 401k probably has a fairly limited number of choices: maybe an index fund, a few domestic large caps, a few small to mid caps, a few bond funds, and maybe an international fund or two.