However, how much is one player worth in
terms of point spread?
How can the team being heavily favored by the public become less of a favorite in
terms of point spread?
Not exact matches
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.
Thus, having started as the name
of a Christian phenomenon in America, the
term «fundamentalist» began to
spread throughout the world, for what it
pointed to was by no means confined to the Christian West.
The second hour was much more
spread out in
terms of the winning but when the dust settled, SigEp took first place and picked up a crucial 18
points in the Standings.
Even if the
spread had moved a few
points, we likely wouldn't have seen any changes in
terms of NCAA Title odds, SEC Title odds, Win Total OU, etc..
But relative to Treasuries, high yield still provides a
spread of around 540 basis
points (5.4 %), close to the long -
term average (source: Bloomberg).
Now, this may have knocked 10 basis
points off
of the TED
spread in the short run, but I am not sure what it will do long
term.
The lower price suggests that the complexity introduced by loan
terms that involve a combination
of cash and interest rate, with variations in yield -
spread premiums,
points, and even seller contributions makes it more difficult for consumers to figure out their total costs and contributes to higher prices and higher fees for lenders and brokers.
Long -
term investors would care more about the lower fees but traders would be primarily concerned with liquidity and low bid / ask
spreads, not a MER difference
of a few tenths
of a basis
point.
Over the last two years, though, high yield
spreads have compressed by nearly 400 basis
points, 1 which reduced the long -
term attractiveness
of high yield relative to equities.
For the purpose
of determining the permissible finance charge, any discount or
point paid by the debtor in connection with a consumer credit transaction secured by a mortgage on real estate, even though paid at one time, shall be
spread over the stated
term of the consumer credit transaction.
A bond trader would formally refer to this
spread in
terms of one hundreds
of a percent or «80 basis
points» (bps) or «beeps» in the jargon
of the bond market.
That's not to say that you should know exactly what you are going to do with these
points when you sign up for the card, but since you can only sign up for a limited number
of cards at a time, make sure you pick a useful one and don't
spread yourself too thin in
terms of meeting the spending requirements or using your rewards.
According to the new norms, in case
of short -
term Ulips with a policy
term of 10 years or less, the
spread between the gross yield and the net yield can not exceed 3 per cent or 300 basis
points.
For long -
term Ulips with a policy
term of more than 10 years, this
spread can not exceed 2.25 per cent or 225 basis
points.
As the GUS cohort is
spread across two school year groups, at the
point of sweep 4 data collection around one third
of the cohort had started their first
term in primary two.
Deal
terms carry a lot
of weight in pricing deals and there is a 300 - basis
point spread between the long -
term premium deals and short -
term deals.
Shopping center owners can get a short -
term floating rate at a
spread of 160 to 300 basis
points over LIBOR, which at mid-June came in about 1.06 percent for a three - month LIBOR (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate).
An office asset secured fixed financing at 70 percent LTV for a 10 - year
term with interest - only amortization, at a
spread of 209 basis
points.
In one example
of a recent deal, a CMBS lender completed fixed financing on an industrial asset at 75 percent loan - to - value (LTV) ratio for a 10 - year
term, with 30 - year amortization, two years interest - only, with a
spread of 180 basis
points.
For instance, if you are quoted a mortgage APR
of 4.25 percent, that means that if all the interest,
points, and any other loan costs were added up and the sum was
spread evenly across the entire loan
term, annual payments on that total would amount to 4.25 percent
of the original loan amount.