Sentences with phrase «worse than bonds»

In that sense they are worse than bonds, because the yields decrease over time.

Not exact matches

Dalio explained that a so - called capital war, when a country uses its asset holdings such as bonds to inflict pain on its adversary, could be even worse than a trade war.

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.

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.

Though «the ECB has been under - purchasing Portuguese bonds,» he said, «it is likely to be relatively less badly - affected by the end of quantitative easing than others, such as Italy.»

History suggests this reversal will be driven by inflation fundamentals, and leave investors worse off than the 1994 «bond massacre.»

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.

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

Banks receive government bonds or central bank deposits in exchange for their bad debts, accepted at face value rather than at «mark - to - market» prices.

All else equal, unless it possesses some sort of major offsetting advantage that makes the risk of non-payment low, a company with a low - interest coverage ratio will almost assuredly have bad bond ratings, increasing the cost of capital; e.g., its bonds will be classified as junk bonds rather than investment grade bonds.

None of these historical drawdowns come close to matching the worst historical bear markets in stocks, but they're probably larger than most bond investors would care to sit through.

I have been doing some research on this and it's worse than anyone outside of Wall Street bond desks understands.

According to Vanguard, the worst bond market loss in history was less than one - sixth of the magnitude of the worst stock market losses.

«In a horrible, truly worst - case scenario, a high - quality bond index fund is still less risky over the course of a year than stocks are in one day,» says the investment adviser Allan Roth, founder of Wealth Logic in Colorado Springs, alluding to the 20 percent decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index on Oct. 19, 1987.

I'd probably call bonds a worse value right now than stocks and stocks are often called expensive.

-LSB-...] The Most Interesting Asset Class Over the Next Decade «Vanguard highlighted high - yield bonds to show how they typically perform worse than other types of bonds during a stock market drop.»

Vanguard highlighted high - yield bonds to show how they typically perform worse than other types of bonds during a stock market drop.

As the Italian Banking Association admits in a statement today, deposits are declining -LRB--1.9 % YoY) and bonds sold to clients -LRB--9.4 % YoY) as Italy's bank clients with bad loans have more than doubled since 2008.

This is not very good tax-wise, as bonds have much worse taxes than stocks.

We all have a special bond with each other, and let me tell you, there is no worse feeling than having another mother tell you that what you are doing is wrong.

It was wonderful, and I kinda feel bad because I bonded so much more with him than my daughter.

«But far worse than the opportunity cost of the decision to withdraw the bond financing is the immediate impact it will have on the residents of Astoria Houses: It will deprive them of reliable boilers for the next heating season.»

Throughout her career, Bigelow has reveled in the power wielded by good and bad strong - people at the expense of the masses, though the power dynamics of K - 19 are less ambiguous than inconsistent, so as to serve a formulaic narrative of male bonding under duress.

Bond and M face a fate worse than death - obsolescence.

Her betrayal by Sylvie was much worse than Christian's as she thought she and Sylvie had a real bond and friendship.

While high quality ratings often imply lower yields, the S&P International Corporate Bond Index has a weighted average yield - to - worst of 2.16 %, which is higher than the average yields of U.S. treasuries and comparable to the 2.26 % yield of the S&P 500 AAA Investment Corporate Bond Index.

For better or worse, most of my net worth is equity in our house (lower return but less volatile than stocks — a bond substitute?).

Not surprisingly, index funds did a little worse than might be expected during the bear markets, since active mangers could get defensive and move to cash or overweight bonds.

But I'll wager that many investors think their bond ETFs are performing worse than they really are.

Yields have fallen since the crisis, and as I wrote about in a recent feature for Canadian MoneySaver, anyone who moved to to short bonds or cash did far worse than investors who simply held the whole bond market.

Given the level of bond prices on Friday, rate sheets might have been a little bit worse than the circumstances warranted, which left mortgage firms with some leeway when bond prices started dropping on Monday.

Prohibited acts.A credit services organization, a salesperson, agent, or representative of a credit services organization, or an independent contractor who sells or attempts to sell the services of a credit services organization shall not: (1) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration before completing performance of all services, other than those described in subdivision (2) of this section, which the credit services organization has agreed to perform for the buyer unless the credit services organization has obtained a surety bond or established and maintained a surety account as provided in section 45 - 805; (2) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration for obtaining or attempting to obtain an extension of credit that the credit services organization has agreed to obtain for the buyer before the extension of credit is obtained; (3) Charge a buyer or receive from a buyer money or other valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who will or may extend credit to the buyer if the credit that is or will be extended to the buyer is substantially the same as that available to the general public; (4) Make or use a false or misleading representation in the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization, including (a) guaranteeing to erase bad credit or words to that effect unless the representation clearly discloses that this can be done only if the credit history is inaccurate or obsolete and (b) guaranteeing an extension of credit regardless of the person's previous credit problem or credit history unless the representation clearly discloses the eligibility requirements for obtaining an extension of credit; (5) Engage, directly or indirectly, in a fraudulent or deceptive act, practice, or course of business in connection with the offer or sale of the services of a credit services organization; (6) Make or advise a buyer to make a statement with respect to a buyer's credit worthiness, credit standing, or credit capacity that is false or misleading or that should be known by the exercise of reasonable care to be false or misleading to a consumer reporting agency or to a person who has extended credit to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit; or (7) Advertise or cause to be advertised, in any manner whatsoever, the services of a credit services organization without filing a registration statement with the Secretary of State under section 45 - 806 unless otherwise provided by the Credit Services Organization Act.

The past week's news affected the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index similarly, as the yield - to - worst closed before the holiday at 3.19 %, 3 bps lower than the previous Friday's 3.22 %.

Buying bonds is tantamount to trying not to lose too badly, rather than trying to win.

If you own a mix of stocks, bonds and cash then your best and worst years will be a lot less dramatic than the all - stock portfolio.

Google for «dalbar study», which shows that average investors badly trail the market indices and post returns that are less than bonds.

The graph below actually illustrates how PGX (orange) underperformed bonds (green) during the past 6 years and even did worse than the stock market (purple) during 2008 - 2009 financial crisis.

Government bonds, such as US Treasuries, and investment grade corporate bonds have performed far worse when yields have been rising than when they have been falling.

This is much worse than junk bonds, since the default rate on those even at the height of credit crisis never reached 20 %.

In other words, it's not clear that this fund is a better or worse diversifier than a high - yield corporate bond fund for a typical U.S. investor.

Stock and bond returns fluctuate up and down quite a bit, so some years you'll do better than the average, some years worse.

If you own a mix of stocks, bonds, and cash, then your best and worst years will be a lot less dramatic than with an all - stock portfolio.

If anything, once you go beyond a healthy mix of U.S. stocks and bonds and perhaps a dollop of international shares, you run the risk of di - worse - ifying rather than diversifying.

Which is a terrifying reminder of the underlying economic reality since then — in the absence of trillions of monetary (& fiscal) stimulus, and the bond & equity market rallies they've induced, quite obviously something more like (or even worse than) Japan's lost decade (or two) would otherwise have been on the cards (& might still be)...

A rare twist in the markets may be ending as a result: yields of tax free high yield municipal bonds are 34bps higher (Yield to Worst) than high yield corporate bonds.

When the Fed starts fighting inflation properly, which will be worse than in the 1970s and won't happen until next year, the bulk of the bond market collapse will be evident.

In less than two weeks, the weighted average yield to worst of bonds in the index has fallen from 3.43 % to 3.10 % or a 33bp improvement.

On average, at least 60 % of funds experienced worse maximum drawdown than the U.S. Aggregate Bond Index.

Quite surprisingly, after inflation, the worst 10 - year period for bonds and cash since 1802 is worse than any 10 - year period for stocks!

Consider this: the Global Couch Potato lost more than 20 % during the worst six months of the 2008 — 09 financial crisis — and that's with a 40 % allocation to bonds.