Sentences with phrase «term bonds due»

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While U.S. savings bonds have lost popularity as a means of long - term savings due to the low interest rates they currently earn, some retirees have been holding on to bonds that were issued when rates were higher.

Global bonds are vulnerable due to low current yields, depressed term premia1 and the desire of developed - market central banks to unwind unconventional policies.

The earnings yield on enormous blue - chip stocks such as Wal - Mart, which had little chance to grow at historical rates due to sheer size, was a paltry 2.54 % compared to the 5.49 % you could get holding long - term Treasury bonds.

State oil company PDVSA sweetened earlier terms and is now offering more bonds maturing in 2020 in exchange for $ 5.3 bln worth coming due next year.

Could you get away with all or the bulk of your bond quota in IGLT without harming long term returns due to the overall safe haven effect on your portfolio in times of extreme stress?

Short - term high grade corporates have become relatively more attractive lately due to a number of technical factors, chief among them a one - time shift out of short - maturity corporate bonds as companies bring home cash held outside of the United States as a result of the recent tax act.

At present, investors have no reasonable incentive at all to «lock in» the prospective returns implied by current prices of stocks or long - term bonds (though we suspect that 10 - year Treasuries may benefit over a short horizon due to continued economic risks and still - unresolved debt concerns in Europe, which has already entered an economic downturn).

After a while each year a bond will become due and you can use the proceeds to buy into another long - term bond; preferably at a higher interest rate.

Rising rates result in immediate bond price declines, but long - term returns are actually enhanced due to the ability to reinvest at higher rates.

The rapid rise in mortgage rates is due in part to rising long - term bond yields.

These bonds have done little in 2015 due to the low yields of these high quality and often short term bonds.

Due to their fixed dividend rate, they often behave like bonds in terms of pricing and portfolio diversification.

With short - term bond fund rates between 0.5 % and 2 %, and intermediate - term bond fund rates between 1.5 % and 3.3 %, there is plenty of downside risk due to the potential for higher future interest rates (bond prices fall when interest rates rise), and not much upside potential due to the current low rates.

There are so many different types of bond funds, ie; emerging mkts, short, intermediate, long term, intn «l, inflation protected, etc, that I would think it very difficult to create a model bond fund portfolio due to different investors age groups and investment objectives.

These are long - term taxable bonds that pay the highest interest rate of all the bonds, due to increased risk of default.

I would argue that bonds more risky than stocks over the long term, due to their paltry returns.

So a short - term bond fund will not be subject to large gains or losses due to rate changes, an intermediate - term bond fund will be subject to moderate gains or losses, and a long - term bond fund will be subject to the largest gains or losses.

However, in the short - term, the bonds currently held on balance sheet decline in value due to increase in interest rates.

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Long - term nominal bonds, like those in the long - term Treasury fund, have significant risk of returning much less in real terms than in nominal terms, due to the risk of unexpected inflation.

While they are generally more inexpensive than their regular bond counterparts in terms of expense ratios due to their lower portfolio rebalancing and turnover, it is also true that they usually incur wider bid - ask spreads due to the low volumes triggered by the inactive trading thereby increasing the total cost of investments in them.

When shorter - term bonds come due, the investor replaces them with other short - term bonds, thus keeping a balance between short and long term bonds.

The coupon on a bond is literally the portion of a certificate that is clipped (detached) and presented for payment when interest is due but the coupon also is used as a term for the rate of interest a bond pays.

An added incentive to do so is that one is more likely to hold bonds to maturity rather than react to any near - term fluctuations due to changes in interest rates.

The iShares Canadian Short - Term Bond Index Fund yields 2.3 %, but the high yield is due to the fact that some of the fund's bonds pay above - market interest rates.

After a while each year a bond will become due and you can use the proceeds to buy into another long - term bond; preferably at a higher interest rate.

Possibly the Bond events and other short term variations of the climate are due to climate variations inside the system, like clouds variations caused by galactic rays.