Sentences with phrase «year bond sells»

Until the five - year bond sells off enough to push the yield above 2.20 %, a lid will remain on fixed rates.

Today's rates are close to 1.8 % (i.e., yields - to - maturity for 10, 20 and 30 year bonds sold on the secondary market).

Not exact matches

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 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.

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.

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.

To maintain the balance of their portfolios, pension fund managers have been selling equities and buying more bonds, and their notable demand for the latter counters the popular narrative that the 35 - year rally in fixed income is over.

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

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.

A sharp sell - off in bond markets this week spilled over into global equities with jitters that a near 30 - year run bull run for fixed income could be coming to an end.

To reduce the risk of capital losses, sell bonds and bond funds with a 10 - year - plus time horizon and buy short - term notes instead, says Dominic Bellissimo, a portfolio manager with Dynamic Funds.

If the 10 - year yield goes above 2.63 %, however, he thinks it would be a «big deal» that could accelerate the bond sell - off.

You'll see that a zero - coupon bond that will be worth $ 1,000 in the year 2008 is currently selling for $ 381.

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.

But given the pace with which bonds have sold off this year, a period of consolidation might be at hand.

[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.

Well in fact it borrows the money by selling 50 - year bonds.

«As the U.S. economy slowed and Europe's debt crisis worsened, investors sought the safety of Treasuries and sold the bonds PIMCO had bet on, leaving the fund trailing 89 % of competitors in August and 67 % this year through Sept. 8.»

BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations, selling big batches of bonds to the public at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded at the height of the euro crisis late last year.

In fact, the fund run by legendary bond manager Bill Gross is among «the 10 top - selling ETFs this year even though it wasn't launched until March,» according to ETF Trends» John Spence.

When the jig is up in a couple of years, sell most of your stocks, buy bonds which will do very well as the stock market and economy implode.

I would be interested if you could compare your 60/40 mix to a 60/40 mix using 5 - year bonds that are laddered so that they can be held to maturity and used when needed as they mature, and therefore never need to be sold at a loss.

This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.

Oppenheimer, the large mutual fund company, also owned some of the bonds issued by Remington, but said it sold its debt holdings last year.

Moody's Investors Service, which downgraded Tesla's credit rating further into junk in March, still expects Tesla will need to raise about $ 2 billion selling equity, convertible bonds or debt, to offset the cash it burns this year and securities maturing through early 2019.

These indicated that some on the committee wanted to begin selling off the bond holdings acquired during the quantitative easing of previous years.

The news comes as global debt markets were already selling off amid signs that central banks are starting to step back after years of bond - buying stimulus.

Yes, any investments you'll need to sell for income in the next few years should be held in less - volatile holdings like bonds, or kept in cash.

«The ten - year bond is selling at 40 times earnings.

By November 2012, our bonds — now with about five years to go before they matured — were selling for 95.7 % of their face value.

In years when the market goes up, some of these shares are sold, with the proceeds moved into bonds.

This is the amount from the stock funds we sold this year and bond funds we already had in the brokerage account.

Btw the 10 year horizon is relevant to me as it is when I can take my 25 % lump sum from SIPP, so preferable taking it from bonds that have just been redeemed rather than selling down equities that may be in a bear market at the time.

Germany sold 4.03 billion euros of 0.5 percent 10 - year bonds Wednesday with syndications in Italy and Portugal to follow.

Bonds are sold for a set number of years, called its maturity.

I've run a 20 - year cash flow analysis, assuming the bonds would all be sold at par value and rolled over into new 8 - year bonds having the same price and yield characteristics as the initial 8 - year set.

The key feature of 2016 Q1 was the abrupt sell - off between the start of the year and mid-February in financial markets — equities, lower - rated corporate bonds and commodities.

The Treasury yield curve has been steepening since the election, with 10 - year yields hitting one - year highs in recent days amid a bond sell - off.

Every year, he said, check to see if you need to rebalance your portfolio by selling stocks and using the proceeds to buy bonds.

10 Year Treasury Bonds are sold at auction to the highest bidder.

In recent years, with the financial collapse and lack of liquidity in the system, many muni bond investments sold off, opening up great opportunities for investors.

My summary advice for the FOMC would be this: before you flatten / invert the yield curve, start selling all of the long MBS and Treasury bonds with average maturities longer than 10 years.

If you sell your bond for just $ 800, the buyer gets that same $ 50 a year in interest.

Therefore, short selling iShares 20 + Year T - bond ETF ($ TLT) is technically better than buying $ TBT.

But throughout the year, bonds kept going up while stocks moved sideways, and investors kept selling their stocks to buy more bonds.

The latest issue, in April, saw Mexico selling $ 1 billion worth of 30 - year bonds in a deal reportedly more than two times oversubscribed.

Both investment - grade and lower - rated corporations sold more bonds last year than ever before.

The second - largest US automaker sold $ 2 billion of 30 - year bonds with a coupon of 4.75 %.

For example, shares in a mutual fund, which can be sold at will, are more liquid than a Treasury bond, which pays interest once a year and can take a decade to mature.

Verizon Communications, which sold $ 49 billion of debt last September in the largest bond sale ever, has returned to the bond market repeatedly this year to take advantage of low interest rates to refinance outstanding debt.