Sentences with phrase «with narrowing spreads»

With a narrower spread between fixed and adjustable mortgage rates, more borrowers are opting for a fixed product.

Not exact matches

With the vast majority of private investment capital tied up in just three states (California, New York and Massachusetts) and a fairly narrow group of industries, SBIC helped spread the wealth to a much broader portfolio of promising businesses.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

Finally, it was a banner year for credit, with spreads narrowing across investment grade, high yield and emerging markets.

This reduces your risk of being picked off by trading with informed traders, which lets you make a profit even on much narrower spreads.

While these observations suggest that liquidity conditions may have deteriorated relative to those in 2005 - 06, most observers agree that bid - ask spreads at the time had been unduly narrow owing to market participants» search for yield in the run - up to the crisis (BIS (2005)-RRB-- an environment bearing some similarities with current conditions (BIS (2014)-RRB-.

The more recent narrowing of credit spreads might also be consistent with concerns about Y2K abating in financial markets, as participants have become more confident about their preparations (Graph 32).

The OCC's findings are consistent with more recent surveys: The Fed's October survey of senior U.S. loan officers found a growing number loosening standards for commercial and industrial loans, often by narrowing the spread between the interest rate on the loan and the cost of funds to the bank.

Since credit spreads are one of the best indicators of economic confidence, with generally - widening credit spreads signifying declining confidence and generally - narrowing credit spreads signifying rising confidence, it would be logical if there were a positive correlation between the gold / commodity ratio and credit spreads.

Credit spreads confirm the speculative nature of this market with spreads narrowing 12 basis points over the last month.

It would make sense for business entities to «borrow for longer» with private capital crowded out by central banks now clamor for long - term cash flows, and this dynamic has tightened credit spreads to record narrow levels.

With the cash rate up by 50 basis points in late 2003 and yields on 10 - year bonds down a little over recent months, the spread has narrowed since early November to stand at around 50 basis points (Graph 67).

2) Line a cupcake pan with liners & fill the bottom with batter, use a spoon to narrow out an opening in the middle & spread the batter up the sides of the liner!

Quickly take the tea towel off spread your frosting over the sponge, scatter with blueberries is using and at the narrow edge as gently as you can roll the sponge up leaving it seam side down.

The unpadded version allows you to choose how far to spread open the fabric and is particularly good for people with narrow shoulders who might be more comfortable with the fabric spread less widely.

Regardless, the altered status quo stands in the Senate with Republicans maintaining a narrow majority, but Democrats arrayed to take power, hopeful that a wave year could spread to down ballot races.

Flowers with greater male success in spreading pollen and siring seeds across a flower patch tended toward longer and narrower petals, Zhou reported June 26 at the Evolution 2017 meeting.

Spread your net wide to put you in contact with the most single lesbians possible, and narrow it down to the ones you want to meet in person.

With the field narrowed down to The Big Five, the campaigns spread their game across the country and play to their strengths - with eyes squarely focused on the all - important upcoming prize: Super TuesWith the field narrowed down to The Big Five, the campaigns spread their game across the country and play to their strengths - with eyes squarely focused on the all - important upcoming prize: Super Tueswith eyes squarely focused on the all - important upcoming prize: Super Tuesday.

Since her marriage to Edward Swift, three years after the sudden death of her first husband Horace Torrington, Charlotte had changed her position at the breakfast table in order to accommodate her new husband's needs: specifically, aiding him in the spreading of toast and cutting of meat, owing to his having suffered the loss of his left arm at the age of twenty - three in an unfortunate encounter with the narrow wheels of a speeding gig, out of which he had fallen on the driveway of his then home in County Wicklow.

For long - term investors, Ferri suggests sticking with funds that have a narrow spread between the bid - and - ask price and funds that have good liquidity.

An ETF with a higher ADV will generally be more liquid and have a narrower bid - ask spread.

In low interest rate environments with narrow credit spreads, preferred stocks behave similarly to bonds.

The spread between the yields of bonds with different credit quality generally narrows when the economy is improving and widens when the economy weakens.

In comparison with the S&P 500, S&P 500 Quality is exposed to industrial production and the narrowing of credit spreads.

With a total return of nearly 15 % year to date, however, this historically «risky» segment of the bond market may be overbought as spreads on their yields narrow.

With so many investors flocking to junk bonds, their prices have risen - pushing down their interest rates and narrowing the spread between risky and safer bonds.

I focus on corporate bonds, and if you use an online broker such as Fidelity, Vanguard, or Schwab, you will see a robust level of inventory with fairly narrow bid - ask spreads.

If you're looking to capitalize on smaller market moves within shorter time frames, the Nadex spreads with 2 - hour durations and narrower ranges may be a better choice.

If you're looking for a smaller move in a shorter time frame, then the 2 - hour spreads with a narrower range could be a better fit.

By contrast, the spread can run around a dollar at times for ETFs that venture into narrower market segments with shares costing less than $ 50.

Finally, it was a banner year for credit, with spreads narrowing across investment grade, high yield and emerging markets.

With a wide spread between the futures and the cash (the futures are too expensive relative to fair value), buying stocks and selling futures drives the cash index up and the futures down, which NARROWS the spread, returning it to fair value.

EPR's share price has struggled over the past year, pushing up its cost of equity capital to levels that leave the firm with a much narrower investment spread.

With 11 different room options spread through two nondescript white concrete buildings down a narrow alley, New Road blurs the line between «hostel» and «guesthouse.»

You would not compare that measurement with the mean height of Dutch people or even the confidence interval on that mean (which gets vanishingly narrow with a large sample size), you would compare it with the overall spread of the height distribution in that country: the prediction interval.

The 17 statistical contributions have a smaller median, at 4.3 million square kilometers, and narrower spread, with quartiles of 4.1 and 4.6 million square kilometers.

As far as I can tell it is based on the estimate of the mean trend (the C.I. of which narrows with the number of runs), not on the spread of trends per se.

My guess is that the idea that the spread is too narrow resonates with a lot of people due to the considerable evidence about overconfidence of expert forecasts.

The spread in the Outlook contributions narrowed slightly from June to July, with an overall range this month of 3.6 to 5.2 million square kilometers.

The spread in the Outlook contributions narrowed slightly from July to August, with an overall range this month of 3.7 to 5.2 million km2.

«Mkt starting to realize that ML / DL is narrowing and hyper - scale core customers experimenting with diff prop hardware solutions, Ether spreads are dead, Auto - unknown.

Those pixels are spread out across that vast field of view, however, which means there isn't as much detail per degree as in cameras with a narrower lens.

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CMBS spreads declined in response to the announcement, with the AAA CMBX Index spread over swaps narrowing by about 200 basis points from late April through mid-May.

Spreads over the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield narrowed to a bandwidth of 370 to 430 basis points compared with 430 to 500 basis points three months ago.

Investors devoured the bonds with spreads narrowing from one issuance to the next.

Given solid operating and investment performance of seniors housing properties in recent years — especially the resiliency demonstrated during the Great Recession — as well as the potential portfolio diversification attributes that the sector can provide to investors, one could argue that seniors housing's spread over the risk - free rate should be narrower or compress with time.

In 2017, the year - over-year spread in leasing velocity began to narrow around January and remained in line with the 2016 velocity throughout most of the year.

I placed a narrow bead of grout recolor on the grout joint, then I used a toothbrush to spread the color evenly along the joint with a scrubbing motion and working in small sections.