Sentences with phrase «off on bond markets»

That was enough to spark a sell - off on bond markets, which drove the interest rate the U.S. government must pay to borrow money to rise to its highest level since October 2011.

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NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

Markets around the globe are keeping a close eye on the U.S. bond market after the most recent move in yields exacerbated a sell - off in stocks on Tuesday.

Bond traders also keep an eye on the VIX, a measure of stock - market volatility, since it has historically been highly correlated to the performance of stocks: rising when stocks sell off and falling when stocks rally.

This time around, the dynamics of the market are even more complicated because bond prices have recently been driven by bets on whether the Federal Reserve will ease off the bond - buying programs it has used to stimulate the economy.

H.L.: The stock market, hedge fund managers, banks, and investors were all aflutter about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments about possibly tapering off on its monthly purchase of $ 85 billion worth of Treasury bonds and mortgage - backed securities.

* The action in both gold and long - term Treasury bond looks to me (yes, this is an entirely subjective, gut level reaction based on nothing but similar scenarios that my market - addled brain seems to recall in the past) like «blow off» panic buying.

After President Trump got elected on November 8, 2016, the US Treasury bond market sold off aggressively due to investors» expectations that Trump would be good for growth and therefore cause inflationary pressure.

Puerto Rico announced a historic restructuring of its public debt on May 3, touching off what may be the biggest bankruptcy ever in the $ 3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market.

... when that amount is dwarfed by the scale and power of the daily flows of money on the international bond markets, swirling around - ready to pick off the next country that lacks the will to deal with its debts.

So they pay their bonds off, and they pay them off on time... Maybe if you just invested in Russia or Indonesia it would be dangerous, but it's spread over all these different countries, so you've got this great diversification, and you've got this income that rivals the return of the stock market.

To build wealth and invest for retirement, you're much better off settling on a mix of stocks, bonds and cash that jibes with your risk tolerance (which you can gauge by completing this risk tolerance - asset allocation questionnaire) and largely sticking with that mix through good markets and bad.

Well, to ensure you don't bail out of stocks and rush to cash or gold or whatever when the market is tanking, you might write down why you've settled on your current asset allocation and promise in writing that you'll hold off at least a week before making any changes to your stocks - bonds mix.

Large index ETFs, which have real - time net asset values (NAVs), have not helped this pricing problem in fixed income but, in parts of the fixed income market where there is less liquidity (such as high yield bonds), sourcing issues can be more difficult — particularly in a market sell - off where buyers may not be readily available with sufficient capacity to take on bond inventory.

Employing such investment types can go hand in hand with a more simplified in - retirement portfolio strategy: Because broad - market index funds provide undiluted exposure to a given asset class (a U.S. equity index fund won't be holding cash or bonds, for example), a retiree can readily keep track of the portfolio's asset allocation mix and employ rebalancing to help keep it on track and shake off cash for living expenses.

The CIO went on to encourage investors to invest more in Europe and emerging markets (both lagged North America significantly in 2014), reduce their bond allocations (bonds had their best year since 2011), and declared that «dividend stocks will continue to pay off» (several popular dividend - focused ETFs in Canada and the US underperformed the broad market).

These bonds are bought by investors on the open market for less than their face value, and the company uses the cash it raises for whatever purpose it wants, before paying off the bondholders at term's end (usually by paying each bond at face value using money from a new package of bonds, in effect «rolling over» the debt to the next cycle, similar to you carrying a balance on your credit card).

If the replacement bond is going to be a Treasury, choose the off - the - run rather than the on - the - run so that you're not paying for liquidity premium, which is additional richness priced into the on - the - runs due to the demand by the repo markets.

For the one - week period ending on November 15, 2017, investors withdrew a net $ 4.43 billion from U.S. funds holding high - yield bonds (often called junk bonds)-- the third largest exodus from such funds on record.1 The high - yield market stabilized over the next two days, but the mass sell - off rang alarm bells for some market analysts.

The majority of global equity markets have posted negative returns, bond yields are near record lows, the loonie has fallen to levels not seen in over 11 years, and, to top it all off, there are some steep tax hikes on the immediate horizon.

When you have many different parties going into the markets seeking income, not caring where they get it from, and a shock hits one part of the market, the effect flows to other areas If all of a sudden yields on junk bonds look cheaper, the yield trade - offs of buying junk and selling dividend paying common stocks looks attractive.

Personally I hold 4 main assets, higher yielding shares, property, gold and bonds but I guess I'm getting off topic a bit so I'll say no more other than If I could go back in time and advise a young me I'd say get a mortgage as soon as possible but also drip feed money into the stock market on a regular basis.

Mike Greeff, CEO of Greeff Christies International Real Estate, is also optimistic on the effect on the market: «Any type of easing in interest rates will encourage individuals to get involved in the property sector, as well as bring relief for current bond holders in that it will have two possible effects: it could either create additional disposable income in their budgets, or it will allow for a higher than required bond repayment which can in essence take years off your bond.»

Applications for U.S. home mortgages fell for a second week and hit a 13 - year low as mortgage rates rose due to a bond market sell - off following the Federal Reserve's decision to pare its bond purchase stimulus in January, an industry group said on Tuesday.