Sentences with phrase «point about bonding»

@fennec You make a good point about bond ETFs, as one concern is having quick access to your money when saving for a purchase in the near term.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

Investment - grade corporates pay about two percentage points more than short - term government bonds, and they're less risky than they used to be.

Long - term bond rates have risen about one percentage point since then, and that has caused bond values to fall.

People are worried about bond market liquidity, is the point I'm trying to make here.

I'm probably being a little too critical about the percentages — but [the point is] in this kind of slow - growth environment, having a broad diversification of stocks and bonds doesn't work as well.

I just think there are a few things bond investors need to understand about longer maturity bonds, so I was pointing out the possible risks.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

This makes sense given how bonds are structured, but I think many investors miss this point when they worry about the potential risks from rising interest rates.

To your point about Municipal Bonds, my concern is tax reform.

The spread between Australian and US bond yields has contracted from nearly 450 basis points at the beginning of the 1990s to an average of about 25 basis points more recently.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

Foster says, «Many people point to the 2008 - 2009 downturn as evidence that bonds will save you during downturns, but what about the 5 years since then?

Bonds seem as yet unable to see what the fuss is all about, but at this point it is important to ask ourselves whether the equity market sell - off is going to bleed into the fixed income world anytime soon.

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

For borrowers, leveraged loans offer two significant advantages over high - yield bonds: They are cheaper, by about 100 basis points on average at the moment.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

For «A» rated corporates, the spread over government bonds of comparable maturity is currently about 100 basis points, which is noticeably wider than a couple of years ago (Graph 32).

At this point I want our investors to think about conservation of capital, I want them to think about being wary about these markets, I want them to investigate less volatile places in the market like higher - grade corporate bonds.

The rise in Canada has been a bit more muted — at about 60 - 70 basis points — says Gulati, because Canadian bonds were offering better returns to begin with and «the U.S. has more upward room to go.»

As we pointed out in our post last week, a withdrawal rate strategy should respond to market factors like equity valuations and bond yields as well as personal factors like age, retirement horizon, and expectations about pension and Social Security benefits.

For now, the Strategic Total Return Fund continues to carry a limited duration of about 2 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 2 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), mostly in Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

Bond yields in Japan have increased by about 110 basis points since mid year, to 1.5 per cent.

The spread between Australian 10 - year bond yields and comparable US yields narrowed from 250 basis points a year ago to about 100 basis points at present (Graph 30).

In early August, the margin of 10 - year bonds in Australia over 10 - year US Treasuries was about 20 basis points, still well below the historical norm.

On the other hand, Craig Johnson, chief market technician at Piper Jaffray said: «I feel even stronger about our year - end call of 3, 3.25 [percent] in the 10 - year bond yield at this point.»

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3 years in Treasury securities (meaning a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

Each leg of Wednesday's transaction, which sent Canadian bond futures tumbling, represented about $ 820,000 of risk per basis point.

He might not be wrong about the old guard's opinions, either: earlier this spring, Hank Aaron himself said he was rooting for Rodriguez to succeed in his return to the game, and Aaron is often the guy who is pointed to as the real home run king given Bonds» own past.

Even if your little one may not understand what you're singing about, Psychology Today points out that singing is a brilliant way to strengthen the parent - baby bond!

Robin Kaplan:... you know, you bring... you both bring up a very good point, of this sense of relaxation and that's because breastfeeding stimulates the release of a hormone called Oxytocin and what that is, is not only does it you know, stimulate uterine contractions, which we'll talk about in Mother's Health and things like that, but it also promotes the development of maternal behavior and bonding.

SUNNY GAULT: That's a really good point because as I mentioned I'm still breastfeeding my twins and I think about weaning with them so we don't worry about the pump, but most of my concerns with weaning is going to come from, you know what their needs are and how do you separate that bond, you know, that you have with when you're breast - feeding, so that's a really, really good point doesn't mean that weaning from the pump is easy.

Many of the points mentioned like verbal abuse, emotional neglect, favouritism towards brother, making the child feel worthless, comparison with other children, complaining about me to outsiders, stingy about pocket money and the consequences of low self - esteem, inferiority complex, loneliness, problem in social bonding - I faced it all.

«The key points about the recent $ 2.25 billion bond issued by the NPP government; the bond was virtually participated by only two investors.

Raising a Point of Order on the floor of the Senate on Wednesday, the lawmaker disclosed that about $ 5.5 bn was borrowed from euro bond, wondering how the loan has been of benefit to the Nigerian youth.

Viggo Mortensen, legendary Remington Steele turned James Bond Pierce Brosnan, and David Harbour from Stranger Things were all talked about at some point, too.

I'm not too concerned about that, since I think they have it well in hand, and even if they do screw it all up at some point, I've still got 20 awesome Bond films to keep me going.

Another refreshing aspect of Baumbach's Gerwigification is that both Frances Ha and Mistress America are primarily about the relationship between women (though Baumbach points out that Margot at the Wedding also turns on the frayed bond between sisters).

An encounter with M (Ralph Fiennes) is a cold, stilted affair that seems more about ticking off plot points — namely, Bond's suspension and the introduction of C (Andrew Scott), the new head of the joint security service — than it is with creating a flowing scene.

That the iconic super-spy playboy is almost certainly simply playing verbal cat - and - mouse is beside the point: in that moment you could not stop thinking about Bond banging dudes, and that is excellent.

If the film says little more about «craziness» beyond pointing out its inherent connection to the bonds of imposed social order, it does so in purely cinematic terms.

At this point I wish they'd just reboot Bond with someone we've not talked about yet, with a new director — Christopher Nolan is game — and start a whole new series.

Besides allowing for another round of winks at the obsolescence of the Bond brand, this particular plot point permits Spectre to draw some curious ideological lines, condemning drone warfare and government surveillance while waxing nostalgic about the good ol' days of Cold War assassination plots.

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.

On the last point about the increase in the debt, what is missed is that a lot of the government debt increase is hidden by the non-marketable Treasury bonds held by the entitlement programs.

He has been vocal about reducing stimulus purchases of Treasuries and mortgage - backed bonds, pointing to recent positive news on the recovering housing market.

Strategic Dividend Value is hedged at about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

«We're talking about 30 years where bonds outperformed stocks, even though if you go back 60 or so years, stocks outperformed bonds by two percentage points.»

These large single - day declines occurred after stocks were already down about 10 % -15 % since early May, so I felt sufficiently motivated to do some exchanges from money market and bond funds into stock funds, even though my overall stock allocation was only 2 or 3 percentage points below its target level.

The spread between the 10 - year nominal bond and the 10 - year Treasury Inflation Protected bond - the markets estimate of annual inflation over the period - is about 250 basis points, up 50 basis points from a year ago.