Sentences with phrase «than the bond market»

Given we're near all - time highs and the stock market moves much more violently than the bond market, the logical conclusion is to shift some of our investments out of stocks and into bonds.

«We are hoping «mom and pop» can do a little bit better than the bond market at a time of historically low yields.»

At the most basic level, Argentina needs the bond market more than the bond market needs Argentina.

Those of us (like me) who are more comfortable in the stock market than the bond market know that we find thousands of way to classify our funds.

A well - known maxim in the world of investing is that to get a good read on the outlook for equities, you need look no further than the bond market.

Fixed indexed annuities can offset those shortcomings: In addition to earnings that grow on a tax - deferred basis, they guarantee a set interest rate and provide exposure to stock market returns, which tend to be higher than bond market returns, according to Ibbotson's white paper.

Not exact matches

«The worldwide market for green bonds in the last year has doubled, and it's now estimated to be more than $ 346 billion — those are U.S. dollars.»

In a client note on Thursday titled «Yanking down the yields,» the interest - rates strategist projected that bond yields would be much lower than the markets expected because central banks including the Federal Reserve were reluctant to raise interest rates.

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.

Stock markets were routed around the globe on Monday and bond yields rose as resurgent U.S. inflation raised the possibility central banks would tighten policy more aggressively than had been expected.

But there's more going on here than poor planning and backroom arguments — something that is making even wary investors outside the corporate bond market sit up and take notice.

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.»

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

It buys long - term government bonds, including those with durations longer than three years, in what is dubbed «rinban» market operations.

But the fact that investors are selling CLOs suggests problems in the bond market are deeper than some might suspect, and are raising parallels to the financial crisis.

(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.

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.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

Butler: I believe that we should see strong equity markets and I would be more weighted to equities than bonds.

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.

It's less relationship - driven than the corporate bond market because there are fewer products to trade, making it more prone to automation.

With interest rates so low, stocks are better than bonds, but the Canadian market, he says, should see mid-single-digit returns.

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.

The bond market is betting the Fed could have to raise interest rates more than the three times it has forecast.

Bonds, as measured by the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index ETF (BND), were down more than 2 percent year - to - date through the end of February.

You could say that 2018 is still a young year and it's way too early to judge things, which is true, but the level of volatility in both stocks and bonds during February is making this year feel like we've lived through two full years already, and I think what the markets are signaling is more likely to be a sea change than a blip.

And that has made it easy to forget that the bond market has been enjoying a bull market of its own — one that has been going on for more than three decades.

But the bank has taken more extreme measures, such as ramping up purchases to more than 40 percent of the market overall and saying it would control the yield curve by keeping the 10 - year government bond yield around 0 percent.

Hamman said bond investors may value that more than total market returns.

Another point, perhaps, is that it's no worse for the Treasury to print a trillion - dollar gold coin than it is for the Federal Reserve to buy trillions in mortgage securities to save banks and the bond market.

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

Future analysis done in relation to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash should be done on mini flash crashes in other U.S. markets, especially on mini flash crashes in derivatives markets (since derivative markets exhibit more cross-market interconnectedness than other markets), and on mini flash crashes on the other public stock exchanges.

Such returns are much better than the average private equity, CD, bond market, P2P lending, and dividend investing returns.

Market discount arises when a bond is purchased on the secondary market for a price that is less than its stated redemption Market discount arises when a bond is purchased on the secondary market for a price that is less than its stated redemption market for a price that is less than its stated redemption price.

While it's still not known when interest rates will go up and by how much, what we do know is that the bond market is at greater risk to rising interest rates than at any time in recent history.

True, the bond market's implied inflation forecast has shot up since last year; but that's almost entirely because of oil rather than economic fundamentals.

Over the long - term the stock market has earned a better return than investing in bonds.

For example, if you hold a bond paying 5 % interest and market rates rise to 6 %, investors would need to pay less for your bond to be compensated for the lower than market rate.

Indeed, the big banks currently have a much lower cost of capital than their smaller brethren precisely because the bond market doesn't believe they will ever be allowed to fail.

That's boosting the outlook for inflation, causing the rout in bonds to deepen in Europe after more than $ 1 trillion was erased from the value of the global debt market.

Downturns in the stock market tend to be worse than downturns in the bond market.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

(The same S&P that was vilified for its downgrade of the United States) Bond markets consider Brazil a better bet than Italy and Spain to say nothing of P, I and G.

For example, the largest U.S. pension, California Public Employees» Retirement System, is considering more than doubling its bond allocation to reduce risk and volatility as the bull market in stocks approaches nine years.

FLIA will invest in fixed - and floating - rate bonds from the full range of governmental and corporate issuers representing developed markets other than the U.S..

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.

[2] Indeed, to my mind, the value of these initiatives has been less the «integration» aspect than the progress made in enabling eight local bond markets to function more effectively for foreign and domestic investors and, not least, for the governments and other borrowers of those countries.

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

Putting all this together, the Australian corporate bond market is relatively small in size and is less well developed than corporate bond markets in a number of other countries.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)