Sentences with phrase «other yield measures»

There are other yield measures that exist such as the yield to first call, yield to worst, yield to first par call, yield to put, cash flow yield and yield to maturity.

Not exact matches

RE as rental investment vehicle is measured primarily on rental yield or cap rate or some other measure.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

That said, credit spreads have popped wider in the past 2 weeks as measured by the spread between Moody's BAA yields and 10 - year Treasuries, by 6 - month commercial paper yields versus 6 - month T - bills, and other spreads.

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The team found that with the right combination of metals, voltage, and temperature, STEP's coulombic efficiency (a classic measure of chemical yield used to determine how efficiently the product is made) hovered around 95 %, meaning that in STEP's case, 95 % of the current worked toward producing the carbon nanofibers, and only 5 % powered other side reactions.

The team hopes to use Hubble again, in combination with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other facilities, to more accurately measure the speed of the black hole and its gas disk, which may yield more insight into the nature of this bizarre object.

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Similarly, direct comparisons of Olympic weightlifting and plyometrics have yielded conflicting results, with some measures showing that Olympic weightlifting is superior (Hawkins et al. 2009; Arabatzi et al. 2012) while others have found no differences (Arabatzi et al. 2012; Chaouachi et al. 2014).

Combining BMI with waist circumference measures and other risk factors for heart disease can yield your risk for developing obesity - associated diseases.

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Moreover, it is likely that improved education would yield benefits that we are not able to measure but have been shown by other studies, such as reduced crime and improved citizenship.

Other tests intended to measure problem - solving ability and the competence to apply mathematical and scientific concepts in real - world settings (such as the Programme for International Student Assessment [PISA] administered by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) might yield different results.

The schools included in the table above did not meet any of the initial criteria and the Multiple Measure Review did not yield evidence of student outcome success and growth in achievement beyond that which is seen at other schools.

«The Gates Foundation's MET project (much but not all of which the AFT agrees with) has found that combining a range of measures — not placing inordinate weight on standardized test scores — yields the greatest reliability and predictive power of a teacher's gains with other students.

These critiques point out that the methods for constructing the levels are flawed, that the levels demand unreasonably high performance, and that they yield results that are not corroborated by other measures.

A detailed investigation of the selection of schools into boundary regions yields no indication of systematic differences between boundary and non-boundary schools along other measured dimensions.

What little we do know about SLOs at this point, however, is two-fold: (1) «no studies have looked at SLO reliability» and (2) «[l] ittle is known about whether SLOs can yield ratings that correlate with other measures of teacher performance» (i.e., one indicator of validity).

This is true whether you measure S&P 500 valuation by the cyclically - adjusted price - to - earnings ratio, the market - capitalization - to - GDP ratio, the price - to - book - value ratio, the average dividend yield, or most other valuation metrics.

Therefore, nominal yield is used only for calculating other measures of return.

To address this issue, some investors have turned to cyclically adjusted P / E ratios or they look at other popular measures of the market's value, such as dividend yields and price - to - book value.

Higher yields signal a lower valuation, though other measures, such as the price - earnings ratio, should also be considered.

To measure the world's yield curve, we'll use the countries of the G7, excluding Japan, which has been out of step with other large economies for more than a decade.

Index A published interest rate against which lenders measure the difference between the current interest rate on an adjustable rate mortgage and that earned by other investments (such as one, three, and five year U.S. Treasury security yields, the monthly average interest rate on loans closed by savings and loan institutions, and the monthly average costs - of - funds incurred by savings and loans), which is then used to adjust the interest rate on an adjustable mortgage up or down.

Perhaps this is why many researchers have found that other measures of value yield better results than book - to - market when building value stock portfolios.

It would seem that investors are perhaps chasing yield in the current extremely low - yield environment, but not other measures of relative value.

Seemingly, this behavior might be construed as not leading to outperformance over time, because every spike in option - adjusted spread (OAS), a standard measure of the yield premium required by high - yield bondholders, would tend to eventually retract, and gains could easily be wiped out by symmetrical losses on the other side.

High Yield, as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index, on the other hand was at the same -0.11 % a day prior on Feb 4th but has been able to lift itself up to the current 0.76 % MTD and is returning 1.53 % year - to - date.

Bonds What You Need to Know About Bond Yields to Determine Your Returns Current yield is simplistic to calculate, but other measures of yield can help you make better investment decisions.

Studies have shown that the dividend yield is most most useful in conjunction with other measures of shareholder yield including net buybacks and net debt reduction.

The BTP / bund spread is a way to measure the risk of other bonds by comparing their yields to that of the German bund.

The other traditional measures of Value are better: price - to - earnings ratio (buy when low) and dividend yield (buy when high).

They include unusually high dividend yields, unusually low per - share price - to - earnings or P / E ratios, or a low ratio of stock price to book value or other measures of per share value.

Therefore, engineers, contractors and others have slowly yielded to rules - of - thumb and other measures which tend to not actually meet code.

Additionally, such an observing system, by measuring the temporal and spatial variability of the AMOC for approximately a decade, would provide essential ground truth to AMOC model estimates and would also yield insight into whether AMOC changes or other atmospheric / oceanic variability have the dominant impact on interannual sea surface temperature (SST) variability.

Various measures of methane yield in M. fuliginosus and M. rufus compared with other mammalian herbivores.

One would think that the two sources of data would yield quite similar trends and have important similarities since they attempt to measure air temperatures so close to each other.

He explains, «I have suggested that weighting the number of decisions of a federal court of appeals by the number of citations to those decisions by other courts of appeals, which is to say courts not bound as a matter of stare decisis to follow the cited court's decisions, yields a meaningful measure of judicial output.»

That these privileges make life easier for me — and more difficult for others — only underscores my conviction that privilege must yield to the measure of equality pursued by a democratic society.

Indeed, were we not to yield a measure of deference to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, two courts neither of which could review the other's decisions would engage independently in the process of formulating the local law of the District.

And as the next premium payment date neared, I studied the features of the policy in detail, compared it against common savings options and other types of insurance and realized that these policies often do not measure up to even to low - yielding non-insurance savings schemes

The relationship between depressive symptoms and step count has only been assessed in specific populations with small sample sizes, such as low - socioeconomic status Latino immigrants, 16 elderly Japanese people17 or patients with chronic conditions such as heart failure18 19 or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.20 21 Studies yield contradictory results, with some observing no association between depressive symptoms and daily step count, 19 21 while others report a negative correlation.16 — 18 20 In one cross-sectional sample of healthy older adults, an inverse association between depressive symptoms (using the Goldberg Depression Scale - 15) and accelerometer measured daily step count disappeared after controlling for general health and disability.22 While a systematic review suggests reduced levels of objectively measured PA in patients with depression, 23 it is not known whether this association is present in those at high risk of CVD and taken into account important confounding such as gender and age.