Sentences with phrase «seen yields decline»

Without adaptation, some Midwestern and Southern counties could see yield declines of more than 10 percent over the next five to 25 years if they continue to sow corn, wheat, soy and cotton, the report says.

Not exact matches

With the 10 - year yield (risk free rate) at roughly 2.55 %, and the Fed Funds rate at 1.5 % (two more 0.25 % hikes are expected in 2018), it's hard to see interest rates declining much further.

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 beyield 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 beYield 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 below).

Despite seeing its sovereign bond yields fall over the past 2 months — thank you ECB LTRO program — Italy's economy saw its second straight quarter of GDP decline in 4Q 2011.

German bond yields have declined over the past three months to be only slightly above the multi-decade lows seen in early 2003, while Japanese yields have also edged downward.

The Madison, New Jersey - based real estate investment manager has seen a noticeable decline in the percentage of global property markets where yields continue to compress.

Short term interest rates remain near zero, 10 - year bond yields have declined below 2 %, and our estimate of 10 - year S&P 500 total returns has declined to just 1.4 % (see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for the arithmetic behind these historically - reliable estimates).

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.»

Of course, seeing these major declines should whet anyone's long term buy outlook and being a dividend centric investor I'm excited to be buying into some great stocks that are sporting yields close to or well above 4 %.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

While it is true that preferred stocks may see price declines as traditional long - term bonds would, the losses may be more than offset by the potential yield.

The income - generating fixed income that has produced the highest yield is also the type that may see the biggest impact if the S&P 500 Index starts to decline.

• As we have already seen, a price decline causes a company's yield to increase.

If you could look at high yield bond trades you would have seen that they were declining as well.

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 beyield 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 beYield 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 below).

The fund invests in longer term bonds, which gained the most after Treasury yields saw a significant decline this week.

Flat Yield Curve - This curve indicates the yields of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term premium.

When interest rates rise, high yield stocks will see their values decline more than dividend growth stocks.

Given the declining yields in US equities and continued thirst for dividends by investors, I decided to run a screen over at Finviz.com to see if I could come up with any potential high yield candidates.

The High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM) saw its expense ratio decline to 0.09 % from 0.10 %, while Global Ex-US Real Estate (VNQI) had expenses of 0.18 % in the 2015 fiscal year vs. 0.24 % a year earlier.

As a result of the downgrade, the prices of the company's bonds decline and yields increase, making the debt attractive to contrarian investors who see low oil prices as a temporary condition.

Anyway, in contrast to some e-mails I've had about the amended version of this week's article, the headline is accurate - a decline in yields hasn't been seen here, but it is projected from this research, and that is consistent with other studies.

For corn, small long - term average temperature increases will shorten the duration of reproductive development, leading to yield declines, 4 even when offset by carbon dioxide (CO2) stimulation.5, 6 For soybeans, yields have a two in three chance of increasing early in this century due to CO2 fertilization, but these increases are projected to be offset later in the century by higher temperature stress7 (see Figure 18.2 for projections of increases in the frost - free season length and the number of summer days with temperatures over 95 °F).

Costa Rica, India, and Ethiopia, three of the top fifteen coffee - producing nations in the world, have all seen a dramatic decline in yields.

Besides allowing third world countries to become the emitters while we cut back he also says, «We will see in Africa with climate change a decline in agricultural yields.

However, in hot regions, such as Egypt, the ratio may even decline as yields decrease due to heat stress (see Chapter 5).