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While the majority of the sports world is focused on filling out brackets this week, bettors are less worried about straight up (SU) wins and are instead analyzing point spreads in order to find value...

Betting on Home Dogs Against the Public (at the 30 % level) resulted in just a 42 % winning percentage at various point spreads in 2008.

Similarly, many sports investors actively follow the line movement and point spreads in various sports.

The Buckeyes hold the recent edge, but both teams have struggled with the point spread in 2012.

Last week, they beat Hawaii 56 - 23 — covering the 24 point spread in the process.

The last time the Seminoles were home dogs was last season vs. Clemson and they covered the 4.5 - point spread in a 37 - 34 loss.

The Arizona Cardinals easily covered a 6.5 - point spread in a 47 - 7 rout of the San Francisco 49ers, and the Buffalo Bills, a popular underdog pick, crushed the Miami Dolphins 41 - 14.

Not exact matches

The divide in Canada was in the high single digits; by comparison, the spread in Italy and Japan was more than 20 percentage points.

The arguments for deleting your account as your 2017 New Year's resolution are strong indeed, as Jake Swearingen points out in Select / All: Facebook was the chief venue for the spread of misleading fake news and pro-Russian propaganda that confused voters and may have helped tip the presidential election to Donald Trump.

The mega-chain's creation myth does have some plot points in common with The Social Network: while McDonald's retains the names of its founders, the McDonald's brothers, it was Kroc who realized the potential of fast food and spread the chain from coast - to - coast, eventually buying out the brothers.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

Public - private investing partnerships like this will help spread capital to great innovative entrepreneurs not only on the coasts, but at all points in between.

In addition to identifying pain points, personas help you to discern what makes consumers spread the word.

Keep all those considerations in mind if you're planning a trip and think Zika could at some point be a concern for you, such as if you're trying to become pregnant or are taking a babymoon to a destination where Zika could soon spread.

It does not make picks against the spread, though we like to include the point spread (in parentheses, courtesy of Vegas Insider) for comparison.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points, the tightest spread in more than six years.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

BofA won bonds due in 2029 with a yield of 3.78 percent, which slightly increased the spread over the scale to 165 basis points from 163 basis points, according to MMD, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

In the three months before August 1929, the high - yield spread spiked by 47 basis points, and in the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis pointIn the three months before August 1929, the high - yield spread spiked by 47 basis points, and in the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis pointin the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis points.

In this environment, credit spreads have a more difficult time getting back to and staying at their lowest points in the cycle despite positive fundamentalIn this environment, credit spreads have a more difficult time getting back to and staying at their lowest points in the cycle despite positive fundamentalin the cycle despite positive fundamentals.

In 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart belowIn 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart belowin 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart belowin March and August (see the chart below).

If annual point - to - point with a spread is used, the interest credited can be reduced to zero even if the percentage of change in index value is positive.

2 For example, John suggested in February 2008 to lower the standard Taylor Rule prescription by 50 basis points to take into account the increase in the LIBOR - OIS spread at that time.

At the same time, credit spreads were up over 200 basis points (in other words two percentage points) even before the election.

So we have gotten to the point that public outcry against the use of rape as a weapon in war can be viewed as helping spread the very thing it is trying to fight.

More broadly, he says that while corporate credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of credit spreads.

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.

I've pointed out several instances of you spreading misinformation in the last week alone.

Back in late October high yield spreads were already low, at around 470 basis points (bps).

The yield curve is the flattest it has been in 10 years, meaning that the spread between 10 - and two - year Treasury yields is around 50 basis points, leaving the fed little room to manoeuvre.

And in CMBS land, spreads on investment - grade triple - B bonds surged by 158 basis points between May and June.

The decline in issuance was sharper than can be readily explained by seasonality and the fall in housing loan approvals in 2004 and appears to have been driven by a fall in issuer supply rather than investor demand, given that primary spreads have narrowed by at least 5 basis points over the period, to historically low levels.

Fifteen points of P / E separate energy stocks and technology stocks, the narrowest spread between low and high P / E groups in at least three years.

This led to quite a sharp narrowing in the spread in bond yields between the two countries, from around 130 basis points at the time of the previous Statement to a low of 85 basis points in early December.

I am spread between UK, US, Europe, Japan, & Pacific and I always keep my ear to the ground just in case there's an impending disaster at which point I quickly buy a put option (6 months) just in case something bad happens.

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.

The more pronounced movements in longer - term bond yields saw the spread between the yield on 10 - year bonds and the cash rate rise in net terms over recent months to around 65 basis points.

A synchronised recovery in GDP growth across the EM universe since 2016 has arrested this trend and IMF forecasts point to a continued widening of this spread over the coming five years.

The 10 - year swap spread in the United States, for example, has increased in 2000 by about 50 basis points, to a level higher than at the time of disruptions in markets during the LTCM crisis in 1998.

The ability of central bankers, gullible media, and clueless mainstream investors to ignore the prospect of a spreading global recession by propping up market averages has in our opinion reached the point of exhaustion.

This fall has been larger than the fall in the United States so that the spread between 10 - year yields in the two countries has narrowed from about 60 basis points to about 20 basis points.

The point which Ben very appropriately emphasizes is that unmanaged secular stagnation in one place is contagious — that a higher level of saving over investment leading to low interest rates in one place, leads to current account surplus, leads to a capital outflow, which then leads to currency depreciation, leads to currency appreciation in other places, and leads therefore to spreading low demand and low interest rates everywhere.

Liaison with market participants suggests that spreads on ABCP picked up sharply in August, as in the US, to be around 30 — 50 basis points above the bank bill rate relative to 2 - 5 basis points over recent years (Graph 8).

Coal fell to just 27.6 % of US utility - scale power generation in December, and the spread between it and natural gas - fired generation widened to 616 basis points, the largest yet seen, Continue Reading

While floaters may be linked to almost any benchmark and pay interest based on a variety of formulas, the most basic type pays a coupon equal to some widely followed interest rate or a change in a given index over a defined time period, such as the year - over-year change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), plus a fixed spread in basis points (1bp = 1/100 of 1 % or.01 %).

This spread is generally expressed in basis points and is added to the reference rate to determine the overall coupon.

Recent revelations also pointed to Cambridge Analytica's efforts to spread misinformation and «stage» elections not just in Kenya but also in Nigeria, Facebook's largest African market.

Before the 2008 crisis, the spread began to rise in August 2007, when it jumped from 10 basis points to 100 basis points by the end of September.

UBS analysts pinpointed a key abnormality in last week's correction: «a U.S. equity decline of 7.4 %, as seen over the last five working days, has historically been associated with a high yield spread widening of 75 — 80 basis points... The actual move has only been 21 basis points.»

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points US5US30 = TWEB, the tightest spread in more than six years.