For example, a plot of all bonds against a theoretical (usually zero coupon) yield curve show «rich» (overvalued) bonds with lower yields
than bonds of similar credit and term, or «cheap» (undervalued) bonds with higher yields
than bonds of similar credit and term.
Lower ‐ quality fixed income securities, known as «high yield» or «junk» bonds, present greater risk
than bonds of higher quality, including an increased risk of default.
To experience oneness in Christ is to glimpse for a moment the truth that God's eternal love is stronger
than the bonds of death.
Cozy and Lee Ray are now tied together by murder, a bond which Cozy notes is stronger
than the bond of marriage.
Not exact matches
The cat's cradle is a web
of commitments, representing their new connectedness — a physical reminder that their
bonds are stronger, surer
than before.
Fill the bulk
of your portfolio with a combination
of high - rated
bonds (weighted toward corporate, rather
than government, debt) and high - quality, dividend - paying equities, and you likely won't take a hit.
It is possible there is enough
of a demand for «green» debt investments that the province can sell this debt for a higher price
than it would get for non-green
bonds, thereby reducing their borrowing costs.
So, it is a very different market
than it was 10 years ago, and you're going to see a lot
of corporate
bond issuance as these infrastructure projects go out there, and you can capture some pretty good yields and you know what you're buying because it's a corporate
bond.
The
bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket
of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher
than equivalent Treasury yields.
Thanks to that anchor tenant, which is locked into 10 - year - plus leases, Thomas Dicker, a portfolio manager with 1832 Asset Management, thinks
of Crombie as more
of a
bond than a stock.
The benchmark 10 - year yield hit a high
of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the
bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much more important
than Dow 20,000.»
«The power
of moral suasion is greater
than we might think,» says Brenda Lum, managing director
of Canadian financial institutions with
bond - rating agency DBRS.
Serge Pepin, the head
of BMO Investments, says people should consider corporate or high - yield
bonds — also known as junk
bonds — which pay higher yields
than federal issues.
Decades
of falling interest rates has taught individual investors that
bonds are safer
than stocks.
When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School
of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer
than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk
bonds.
Bond yields rose to the highs
of the day as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid out a case where the Fed could raise rates more
than it has forecast.
The longest - term portion
of the offering, $ 8 billion
of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more
than comparable Treasuries.
LONDON, April 24 - Less
than two weeks after the latest round
of U.S. sanctions plunged Russia's rouble to 16 - month lows, some global funds have already stepped back in to buy rouble - denominated sovereign
bonds and take advantage
of the weaker currency.
Japanese government
bonds skidded in their worst sell - off in more
than three years, despite weaker stocks, accelerating a slide begun in the wake
of last Friday's Bank
of Japan easing steps that disappointed many investors.
As a result, risky asset classes such as equities and commodities will be assigned much higher reserve requirements
than bonds, which is why some insurance industry players are already dumping equities to hold a greater proportion
of bonds.
The move is a novel way for the San Mateo, Calif., company to finance the enormous cost
of installing panels on thousands
of roofs — a typical residential system costs $ 25,000 — while appealing to retail investors who are on the hunt for better rates
of return
than they can find in savings accounts and government
bonds.
The carrier is putting up future installment payments worth over $ 1.5 billion to back the less
than $ 1.2 billion
of bonds.
(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more
than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability
of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in
bonds is numbered.
The 10 percent average return on the S&P 500 may not seem impressive at first, despite the fact that it's more
than double what one can expect from a 30 - year Treasury
bond and way more
than what a certificate
of deposit from a bank pays.
Last week, for example, TD Bank sold US$ 3 - billion worth
of bonds covered by residential mortgages yielding 1.571 %, or quite a bit lower
than 2.99 %.
B.C.'s relative fiscal stability affords Clark and her government the opportunity to spend their time pursuing their chosen agenda rather
than satisfying the needs
of the
bond market.
While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those
of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that
bonds of all types are yielding less today
than we're used to.
According to «
Bonds of Citizenship: Law and the Labors
of Emancipation» by Hoang Gia Phan, Franklin wrote that he «lik'd [the printer's profession] much better
than that
of [his] Father, but still had a Hankering for the sea.»
While credit risk might seem like a bad idea with the U.S. economy still weak and the rest
of the world looking equally uncertain, high - yield
bonds do offer bigger returns
than government and investment - grade
bonds.
Sure, there are hundreds
of twins who may disagree, but more often
than not twins have a special
bond that can't be denied.
Finance startup
Bond Street issues loans to small businesses, many
of which have less -
than - ideal credit, and it's hatched a plan to stand out in the crowded online lending sector.
He nods to
Bond Street's slick web design, and the «simplicity»
of the online application, which takes fewer
than ten minutes to complete.
In essence, if correct, this means there is less price risk in government debt securities
than corporate fixed income issues, and therefore the extra 10 % should largely be made up
of government
bonds rather
than corporates and preferred shares.
A more reliable metric
than the stock market
of what investors expect in the future can be found in the
bond market, which continued to surge Thursday.
But the simple fact is she just doesn't know, because she doesn't know when the effect
of a higher coupon has a more powerful effect on a
bond's price
than does a shorter term.
Just like any investor, China wants to put some
of the greenbacks it's made off its exports to the United States into safe investments, and there's nothing safer
than U.S.
bonds.
For instance, under recent scrutiny are negotiable certificates
of deposits (NCD), a kind
of short - term
bond, and niche products like perpetual notes, a long - term debt instrument that can be listed as equity rather
than debt on balance sheets.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Wary
of brokers who make their money by «riding the calendar»
of new stock and
bond issues rather
than patiently building the firm's wealth management business, Morgan Stanley is cracking down where it hurts the most: compensation.
The U.S. can borrow until Aug. 2 after reaching the US$ 14.29 - trillion limit because
of «stronger -
than - expected tax receipts» and «extraordinary measures» such as suspending the sale
of bonds for state infrastructure projects, Geithner said in a letter to congressional leaders.
Broader green
bond indices, usually an assortment
of companies and sectors often unrelated to renewable energy generation, have seen lacklustre returns, much lower
than those
of appropriately - defined indices.
Not to mention, an MBA from UT Austin comes with a network
of more
than 92,000 McCombs School
of Business alumni around the world,
bonding graduates to a lifelong community.
Rather
than follow the Stalin model
of turning an agrarian society
of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions
of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and
bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.
Other funds pulling in money lately include the Vanguard Intermediate - Term Corporate
Bond and SPDR Barclays Short Term Corporate
Bond, both
of which took in more
than $ 300 million over the past week.
The SPDR Barclays High Yield
Bond fund gathered more
than $ 1.1 billion, or about half its total for the year, while the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate
Bond took in $ 603 million, pulling it out
of negative territory for the full year.
Buffett's skepticism around the strategy stems from his view a diversified portfolio
of equities progressively becomes less risky
than bonds over extended periods
of time.
Bond insurers with more
than $ 1 billion at stake repeatedly argued for the sale
of valuable art but dropped that plea and settled for much less.
These corporate fixed - income instruments pay a dividend that is taxed at a more favourable rate
than regular
bond interest, but you only benefit from this if they are held outside
of a registered account.
Judge Klein's decision to overlook the disparate treatment accorded pensioners and capital - market creditors disappointed municipal -
bond investors, who had hoped for better treatment in the wake
of his Oct. 1 decision that pensions deserved no more protection
than other contractual obligations.
«If the company restructures or goes into bankruptcy, the recovery value
of the
bond is greater
than the current price,» he wrote.)
«Since... 2011 we have created more
than 512,000 private - sector jobs, implemented pro-business tax reform and saved millions
of taxpayer dollars by maintaining Georgia's AAA
bond rating.»