Sentences with phrase «year bond yield gets»

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In addition, housing and the economy should get a lift from the plunge in 10 - year U.S. government bond yields to 3 %, and, if the economy needs it, a new round of quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve.

We have found that stocks and bond yields historically have been positively correlated until the 10 - year yield gets up around 5 %, at which point the correlations break down.

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

It doesn't help that 10 - year bond yields are still lower than the prospective operating earnings yield on the S&P 500 (the «Fed Model»), not only because the model is built on an omitted variables bias (see the August 22 2005 comment), but also because the model statistically underperforms a simpler rule that says «get in when stock yields are high and interest rates are falling, and get out when the reverse is true.»

He was commenting on that 400 - point - plus swan dive for the Dow yesterday, as 10 - year bond yields galloped into 3 % territory and even forecast - beating earnings got tossed aside.

2) Municipal bonds: $ 100,000 if the 10 - year yield gets back up to 2.3 % and $ 300,000 if the 10 - year yield gets back to 2.5 %.

He said changes in government bond yields, worsened by Brexit, meant «20 years of investment return is missing that we've got to try to make up from employers».

But while you could get 5 % on bonds a decade ago, the current yield on 10 - year Government of Canada bonds is about half that today.

If you've bought the Tesco bond above for # 110, but you'll only get # 100 when it matures, the redemption yield would be 2.2 % (assuming the bond matures exactly four years from the purchase date).

If the new investor buys the bond for $ 900, while the coupon rate will still be 6 %, the yield will be higher — both because he only has to invest $ 900 to get $ 60 a year and because he'll get back $ 1,000 when the bond matures.

Low as the dividend yield is on stocks at the moment (2.04 %), it's still better than what you can get on a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond.

Bond yields hit their year - to - date lows in early September, with the 10 - year Treasury yield getting as low as 2.03 % before trending back up towards 2.40 %.

To get any sort of real yield in the current low rate environment, investors have been forced to go out on the maturity ladder and into longer - dated bond funds like the iShares Barclays 7 - 10 Year Treasury (NYSE: IEF).

But then, even Marks gets snagged by the «hook» — basing his view of stock valuations on «projected earnings for the year ahead,» and the corresponding «earnings yield» compared with the yield on bonds (see Investment, Speculation, Valuation, and Tinker Bell for an extensive historical perspective on this metric, compared with far more reliable models).

George, I'm really glad to see that the Treasury has finally gotten a lick of sense, and is re-issuing the 30 - year, which they should be able to at yields lower then the current long bond maturing in 2031 (probably 10 basis points lower).

The sell - off in U.S. and Canadian bonds has raised yields due within 10 years to levels at which investors can finally get decent returns, according to Moore, who co-manages more than $ 50 billion in Canadian and U.S. fixed income for Fidelity.

You'll still get your 2 % per year, but if you'd bought that bond one instant after if fell in price then you'd own the exact same high quality instrument with a higher yield to maturity than the 2 % yielding bond.

No one is going to buy a 10 - year bond that yields only 1 %, if instead they could loan that money out elsewhere for a similar period and get 3 % interest.

Interestingly, the last bond that priced before I left was the Zambia 10 - year which priced at 5 3/8 th yield which was probably a good sign to get out of that market.