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We use a five - year bond as representative of the approximate duration risk an investor faces in a broad emerging markets local currency bond index.

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Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

For one thing, those 10 - year Canada bonds are yielding just 1.14 % and could lose value should interest rates rebound from their recent lows, as many market - watchers expect.

That relationship has played out this year — as interest rates have risen since January, the HYG high yield corporate bond ETF has come under pressure.

Earlier this year, the Bank of Canada revealed it has also been studying Ethereum, and UBS has been considering it as a way of issuing bonds.

That's exactly what has happened over the last month, as shown in this graph of the yield on the 10 year US treasury bond for the last year (keep in mind that yields going up means prices going down):

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.

When bond rates rise, which they have this year, these stocks tend to fall in price as fixed - income products, which are safer to begin with, become more attractive.

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.

Sure enough, the yield on a Canadian 10 - year bond has risen in tandem with its U.S. counterpart since the start of the year, even as Poloz has signaled caution ahead.

In January, Miller said a rise in the 10 - year Treasury yield above 3 percent «will propel stocks significantly higher, as money exits bond funds for only the second year in the past 10.»

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

The gap between the 10 - year French and German government bond yields has widened to a five - day high as political uncertainty returned to France.

The Federal Reserve will pay particularly close attention to the employment data as it decides whether to scale back its $ 85 billion monthly bond purchases later this year.

Except that's not working either — newly discovered emails that were leaked as part of a hacking job on Sony last year show the company offered to pay $ 5 million for actor Daniel Craig to use a Sony Xperia as part of the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre.

But next year could be an improvement, as the creativity of Hollywood will be on full display: a Stars Wars sequel, a James Bond sequel, a Jurassic Park sequel, and a Fast and Furious sequel are all slated for release.

Originally, the Sherpa Program was set up as a one - year program, but the bonds created became so strong that many of the relationships have continued past the initial year.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 % as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond which the bull market in bonds would end.

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Bond yields have swung higher this year as the Federal Reserve signaled a more hawkish turn on monetary policy.

Gross used to be described as Wall Street's bond king for his success at Pimco, the company he founded and then left in 2014 after 43 years.

While most winemakers focus on the quality of the grapes and the effect that soil and weather conditions have had on each year's harvest, Lee and his partners — Mardonn Chua (who like Lee has a biotech background) and Josh Decolongon (a sommelier)-- view the creation of wine as a chemistry experiment, bonding a combination of amino acids, sugars, ethanol and other elements together.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

The won was up 0.3 percent against the dollar as of 0053 GMT, while March futures on three - year treasury bonds barely changed at 107.73.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

By contrast, many investors are moving into diversified investment - grade fixed products, such as the IShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG), which has had net inflows of $ 435 million this quarter and $ 2.2 billion of net inflows year - to - date.

Mr. Roth recommends owning a laddered series of federally insured five - year certificates of deposit as a bond proxy.

The 30 - year - old fund overtook Pimco's Total Return last year as the fund world's largest bond portfolio.

The $ 3 trillion hedge fund industry, which has been struggling to outperform stock and bond markets, could see assets shrink by as much as 30 percent in the next three years if performance continues to disappoint, according to a report this month from Boston Consulting Group.

According to Morningstar Direct, $ 59 billion is invested in long - term bond funds and exchange - traded funds (defined as portfolios with average durations above six years).

In addition, both variable and fixed - rate mortgage rates have risen over the past year as a result of moves by the Bank of Canada and fluctuations in the bond markets.

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.

Looking at a simple asset allocation, a theoretical allocation to long - dated U.S. bonds (+20 years) fluctuates from as low as 3 % to as high as 25 % based on changes to the risk model, i.e. correlation of different asset classes.

If my capital market expectations are for a good bond market and a weak stock market in the next year (such as this year), I don't necessarily want to change any of the stocks or bonds that I hold.

One strategy might be to create a «Social Security delay bridge» such as a certificate of deposit or bond ladder to span those eight years from ages 62 to 70, he said.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

As a result, bonds, which rise in price when yields drop, had a very good year in 2014.

Bond yields have been on an upward march this year as higher inflation expectations spurred predictions of a more hawkish Federal Reserve.

Bonds tumbled as upbeat consumer spending data lowered demand for U.S. debt, pushing the two - year note yield to its highest level since 2011.

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.

Indeed, Randell Moore, who survey's economists as the editor of the Blue Economic Indicators, says the current consensus is for the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond to rise to 3.25 % by the end of 2015.

Bonds flipped between negative and positive territory as concerns about economic growth pushed the 10 - year note yield to lowest level since April.

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.