Sentences with phrase «thoughts on bond yields»

4) What are your thoughts on bond yields?

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Thirdly, I think a reasonably diversified stock / bond portfolio can also provide a solid ~ 2.5 - 3.5 % blended yield quite easily, depending on asset mix and growth profile.

A rise of 1 - 2 % isn't going to do much, and I don't think we'll rise by more than 1 - 2 % on the 10 - year bond yield anyway, so nobody needs to panic.

Highly rated companies that are financially strong and have massive amounts of cash on their balance sheets — think Microsoft, Exxon, etc. — can typically offer bonds with lower yields since investors are confident that the companies won't default (i.e., miss interest or principal payments).

, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up on high quality bonds because they're worried about poor returns from low yields.

I thought it was interesting that on September 5 — the day after the announcement — two - year government bonds in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, France, Austria and Ireland all had negative yields.

Think about it: how much will a bond with a NEGATIVE yield be worth on the day that investors lose confidence in their central bankers» abilities to control the weather financial markets?

They might think they're well diversified even if they own just five Canadian stocks, or they may choose a bond based solely on its yield, without considering the risk.

With yields on bonds and CDs so low as to almost be insulting, investors are finding themselves searching for income in places they might normally have never thought to look.

I think it was somewhere around a 15 % yield on a 1 - yr GoC T - Bill, but I believe that the 10 - yr long bond was trading way down at an 8 % yield.

I think it's a mistake to hang your equity bullishness on the flawed Fed model, comparing bond yields to stocks.

I expect that we'll be inclined to increase our exposure in long - term bonds on any substantial price weakness and upward yield pressure, but that inclination will be gradual and proportionate - I don't think it's useful to think of any particular level on say the 10 - year or the 30 - year Treasury as a «buy.»

I ask because before reading all the great links you have provided i always thought of bonds as safe but rather boring as i believed one was always limited to the profit on the yields.

Some market participants do think that bond yields will inevitably rise but on the opposite side of the trade are investors who think bond yields are not going anywhere.

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Rather, I think people who live on fixed - income assets like CDs and bonds are shifting to the safest kind of equities (utilities) driving up the price and thus driving down the yield.