Sentences with phrase «rate bond world»

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It influences interest rates around the world and affects everything from bond and stock prices to currencies to mortgage and car loans.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

In a presentation earlier in September, Gundlach said that interest rates around the world had bottomed and he expected both rates and bond yields to move higher.

China may witness its first local government bond defaults, although the timing was uncertain, Fitch Ratings said in a press release issued on Sunday, amid persistent concerns over high debt levels in the world second largest economy.

S&P gave the AMNH's recent bond issuance a very high AAA rating, indicating the museum's «pre-eminence» as one of the world's top natural history museums.

World shares and bonds rallied on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged and slowed the pace of future hikes, weakening the dollar and lifting commodity prices.

After World War II, which is the only example I know of, it wasn't until like 1950 where they let 10 - year bond rates go.

Last week I looked at some of the options available to bond investors in a low rate world.

In a zero - interest rate world (Figure 7), these provide yields that are much higher than those found in more conventional investments like U.S. Treasury bonds or money market accounts.

So the big question in the world of economics is whether or not the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and end their bond buying program known as quantitative easing.

As a percentage of GDP, more than half of the outstanding sovereign bonds in the developed world originated from countries or regions where negative interest rate policies are in place, primarily representing bonds from the euro zone and Japan.

Bonds, stocks and real estate, he writes, are overvalued because of near zero percent interest rates and a developed world growth rate closer to zero than the 3 % to 4 % historical norms.

As yields across the world continue to be pushed lower by highly accommodative monetary policies, international investors are fleeing low (or negative) rates offered by many DM government bonds.

This index is very heavy on government bonds and mortgages, and in a world of potentially rising rates, nobody wants to be tied to the «Agg,» as it is known.

Bluford Putnam, managing director and chief economist at CME Group, the world's biggest futures market operator, agreed that the Fed's near - zero interest rates and bond purchases helped stabilize financial markets and bolstered the economy — but only for a while.

«The bond market represents more of an evolving risk given the likely onset of Federal Reserve rate hikes near - term, which in turn will lead to speculation as to when the rest of the world will follow,» said Gayle.

Chapters 17 - 34 describe the global database used for the book and provide appendix - like results for equities, bonds, bills, exchange rate and inflation for each of 16 countries and the world overall during the period 1900 - 2000.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

In the summer, with the world awash in negative interest rates, The Wall Street Journal reported that this «new abnormal» was «here to stay» and (as yours truly wrote) that «you will have to lower your expectations» for bond income.

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).

The earnings yield (earnings per share divided by the share price, or the inverse of the price - to - earnings ratio) still looks attractive versus real (after inflation) bond yields, meaning stocks may be cheaper than they look in a low - rate world.

This is designed to offer investors the best of both worlds: The diversification benefit of a traditional bond mutual fund and the declining interest rate risk sensitivity of an individual bond.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

For example, in a world where short - term interest rates are zero, Wall Street acts as if a 2 % dividend yield on equities, or a 5 % junk bond yield is enough to make these securities appropriate even for investors with short horizons, not factoring in any compensation for risk or likely capital losses.

This is why long term bond markets are telling us that real interest rates are expected to be close to zero in the industrialised world over the next decade.

By itself, this below - average spread might normally be taken to imply slightly tighter - than - average conditions, although a more likely interpretation is that bond yields have been held down by offshore bond - market developments reflecting expectations that short - term interest rates around the world will remain below average for some time.

Among the explanations that have been put forward are the increased credibility of central banks in controlling inflation (inflation rates remain below 3 per cent across the developed world), the low level of official interest rates in the major economies reflecting low inflation and the continuing weakness in some economies, a glut of savings on world markets particularly sourced from the Asian region, and changes to pension fund rules in some countries which are seen as biasing investments away from equities towards bonds.

Likewise, investors have turned to real estate investments in the hunt for rate of return that had vanished from the world of bonds.

I think that means European bonds are potentially positioned to perform well — especially relative to other bond markets in the world — because the ECB is very much on a heavy easing cycle, compared with other countries where there is talk that rates eventually will rise (namely the United States).

Using global industrial production growth as specified, annual total returns for 30 country, two regional and world stock indexes, currency spot and one - year forward exchange rates relative to the U.S. dollar, spot prices on 19 commodities, total annual returns for a global government bond index and a U.S. corporate bond index, and country inflation rates as available during 1970 through 2013, they find that: Keep Reading

Even in a world where short - term interest rates will continue to rise as the Federal Reserve raises policy interest rates (most likely 2 — 3 times next year) and where long - term rates should rise slowly as the Fed lets its balance sheet shrink, tax - free yields should either stay the same or move down as the municipal bond world confronts a market with much less issuance.

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But a strong counterpoint to this equity performance continues to be the narrow spread between short and long rates in the major bond markets around the world.

A darling asset class of this bull market has been U.S. high yield debt, as many searching for income in a low - rate world have turned to these higher - yielding bonds.

In a world where finding yield is a challenge, even a looming rate hike isn't enough to get investors particularly excited about their bond portfolios.

Thanks to lackluster global growth, and rock - bottom interest rates in the United States — and even negative rates in other parts of the world — investors face the choice of either accepting lower income or increasing risk in their bond portfolios in the search for yield.

Monti was the first adult to lead Italy since World War II, and he has almost singlehandedly calmed the bond markets into financing Italy's gargantuan debts at a reasonable rate.

Bond markets are not excluded from this equation and emerging market fixed income markets are yielding much higher rates than those available in the developed world.

One is the ultra-low level of interest rates on GICs, bonds and other cash - equivalent investments, a phenomenon dubbed «financial repression» and perpetrated by central banks around the world.

But remember, we live in a global world and interest rates remain low in most large developed bond markets including Japan, Germany and the UK.

With investment grade rates barely keeping pace with inflation, investors started «chasing yield» wherever it might be found... high yield bonds, emerging market debt, world bond funds, bank loan funds, «non-traditional» and «multi-sector» bonds funds, et cetera.

This bizarro world is not far off; Switzerland, for example, had negative interest rates on 10 - year bonds for most of 2015.

But because worries about global economic growth, inflation and the threat of central bank rate hikes are one catalyst for the climb of bond yields, some analysts worry that the move higher may prove sustained and inflict damage to the world's biggest economy.

From a recent interview with Bill Gross, manager of the Janus Global Unconstrained Bond fund: Years of easing by central banks mean that interest rates in most of the developed world will fluctuate narrowly.

The drawback, however, is that because U.S. government bonds are regarded as the world's safest fixed - income investments, the interest rates they pay investors are lower than those of corporate bonds.

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So, if the market sentiment decides it doesn't like a few factors, such as a decision to follow a divergent monetary policy, continued slow global economic growth, a world - wide aging population, and the swearing in of Donald Trump as the next American President, we could be see a rise in bond rates, which will absolutely start to increase fixed - rate mortgage rates.

While investors will have to find stocks with higher yields, pay more for them and take on more risk in bonds, the biggest change in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.

Relative strength for utilities and REITs in the stock world, as well as relative strength for investment grade debt in the bond universe, suggest that the Fed will barely bump overnight lending rates, if at all.