Sentences with phrase «year bond at»

And yesterday, Italy sold a two - year bond at an interest rate of -0.023 %, which means investors have to pay to lend Italy money rather than receive interest on their loans.

So if you bought a new issue 10 - year bond at par yielding 5 %, and now the market price is 98, this means that interest rates rose since you bought it (because the price went down - the old «bond prices move inversely with interest rates» saying).

Or the trader might sell a five - year bond (effectively borrowing money) at say 2.5 % and then in 5 years sell another five year bond at 2.0 %, resulting in a 1.75 % return.

These days the government can issue 20 - year bonds at 2.0 %.

Future generations should help pay for them and that's why governments today should be issuing 10, 30, or even 50 year bonds at currently ridiculously low interest rates to finance needed infrastructure.

And if you can buy some business that earns high returns on equity and has even got mild growth prospects, you know, at much lower multiple earnings, you are going to do better than buying ten - year bonds at 2.30 or 30 - year bonds at three, or something of the sort.»

The federal government would borrow on behalf of this Crown Corporation by issuing 30 - year bonds at historical low interest rates (around 2 %).

We are in a BUBBLE of perceived «SAFE» Haven assets (think 30 years bonds at sub - 2.5 % or two year bonds at 0.003 %)

Not exact matches

It was nudging up at 2.96 percent on Tuesday, which also left the gap between U.S. and German 10 - year benchmark bond yields just off its widest level in nearly three decades.

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.

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

Ten years ago, if you look at emerging market bonds, corporates, that was a very small and illiquid market.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was lower at around 2.998 percent at 1:07 p.m. ET, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was lower at 3.18 percent.

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

People with investments in stocks, bonds and other securities can donate those that have appreciated in value that they've held for at least one year, resulting in significant income - tax savings.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was lower at around 2.43 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was also lower at 3.046 percent.

On Thursday, Argentina sold $ 7 billion in five - year and 10 - year dollar bonds in the international market at interest rates of 5.625 percent and 7 percent.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes sat slightly lower at 2.221 while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond slipped to 2.797 percent.

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 company had a net loss of 10 million yuan (US$ 1.57 million) in the first half of last year, a bond default this year, and it has racked up debts of at least 3 billion yuan.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

«Yet if you look at foreign ownership of domestic bonds, it's next to nothing and the market is just starting to open up,» she said, noting GIC had the «fortunate position» to be able to invest there a few years ago.

When Alexandre Pestov, a strategic consultant and research associate at York University's Schulich School of Business, compared buying a two - bedroom Toronto condominium to renting it over the past 25 years, he found that the renter ended up $ 600,000 richer than the owner if he invested the spare cash in low - risk bonds.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

The 10 percent average return on the S&P 500 may not seem impressive at first, despite the fact that it's more than double what one can expect from a 30 - year Treasury bond and way more than what a certificate of deposit from a bank pays.

«What we noticed in January was that stocks and bond yields wanted to run through their year - end targets» to start off 2018, said John Augustine, chief investment officer at Huntington Private Bank.

In March 2018, SES secured an eight - year EUR 500 million Euro Bond at a low annual coupon of 1.625 % which allows SES to refinance an upcoming debt maturity at more favourable terms.

According to the Global Market Strategy team at JP Morgan, pension funds and insurance companies in the G4 - United States, euro zone, Japan and Britain - will buy at least $ 640 billion of bonds this year.

Tighter regulation on bond markets has crimped appetite for bonds in the region, he said, noting that subscriptions for three government bonds issued at the end of last year lagged expectations.

The central bank said it will purchase Japanese government bonds so that the yield on the 10 - year note will remain at around zero percent.

Following the report, the yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was lower at around 2.959 percent at 3:46 p.m. ET, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was lower at 3.128 percent.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

After eight years of being a bond trader, including a stint at Fidelity, he was laid off in December 2008.

The 10 - year US bond, which began the year at 2.43 %, is slightly lower at 2.32 %.

If the same person instead invested a little less each year (6 % of his income) in a portfolio weighted 80 % to higher - returning equities and 20 % to bonds, he would only have $ 469,000 at retirement.

Germany's benchmark 10 - year bond yield was up almost 2 bps at 0.58 percent in early trade, above a one - week low of 0.56 percent hit on Friday.

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.

Bond prices made a high for the year on Tuesday, and credit spreads are at year low's.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury notes, which moves inversely to price, was higher at around 2.314 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was also higher at 2.877 percent.

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.

Sovereign bonds will still prove popular for investors over the next two years and a sharp sell - off in fixed income will fail to materialize, an economist at UBS told CNBC Thursday.

Allan Small, a senior investment adviser at DMW Securities, has avoided government bonds for the past few years because they pay so little.

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.

«During the Harrison years, they had labour issues now and then,» says Kam Hon, managing director at bond rating agency DBRS, «but the disrupt ions were never extensive, so it never really hurt CN's performance.»

«Net short positions on 10 - year Treasury notes are at historical highs, implying that rising US bond yields remains among hedge funds» major convictions.»

Originally from Paris, Rahmé spent 10 years at L'Oréal before starting her perfume brand, Bond No. 9.

The simplified explanation for this aberrant investing disaster was a dramatic rise in interest rates during the period: Rates on long - term government bonds went from 4 % at year - end 1964 to more than 15 % in 1981.

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.

He has watched this trader for years, and knows that if he hit a 98 bid, the bonds would be coming out at 97.5 tomorrow when the trader got the tap from management.