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«With the Italian 10 - year bond yielding less than its US counterpart, with clear signs of accelerating growth and inflation in Europe, and a depressed Euro adding fuel to the fire, assets correlated to European rates will be vulnerable in 2017,» says Mitchell.

Not exact matches

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

Concern remained over higher bond yields after the yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury breached 3 percent level on Tuesday, making equities relatively less attractive.

The Government of Canada 10 - year bond yield is currently 1.4 %, which offers a real yield of minus 0.6 % (1.4 % yield less 2 % inflation) over 10 years.

The yield on the current 30 - year bond fell less than one basis point to 3.37 percent.

In bonds, the Market Climate remains characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable yield pressures, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a duration of less than 1 year.

Currently, participants who have not taken a distribution receive interest credits at the rate equal to the 30 - year Treasury bond yield plus 0.5 % but not less than 5 %; the «interest credit» rate is adjusted annually.

Contrast that to the S&P 500, which yields just a fraction of a percent less than the bond and we expect will grow earnings at about 6 % per year for the next five years.

The cash yield on the iShares CDN REIT Sector ETF (TSX: XRE) is approximately 5.45 %, a spread of less than 2 % over the 10 - year Government of Canada bond, which is currently yielding 3.55 %.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

The current yield on a 10 - year U.S. bond stands at less than 2.5 %.

In early August, yields on 10 - year bonds were around 75 basis points above the cash rate, slightly less than the average differential since the mid 1990s (Graph 66).

Indeed, with the US Federal Reserve finally beginning to hike interest rates and half of all European government bonds of less than five - year maturity paying negative yields, it would appear to us that the rate cycle is bottoming.

Even in a world where short - term interest rates will continue to rise as the Federal Reserve raises policy interest rates (most likely 2 — 3 times next year) and where long - term rates should rise slowly as the Fed lets its balance sheet shrink, tax - free yields should either stay the same or move down as the municipal bond world confronts a market with much less issuance.

That's 15 years of taking whatever the bond market, CDs or TIPS will yield (often and currently less than 2 %)... I'm curious how you defend not following your own program even as you recommend it for others?

At this writing the 30 year US treasury bond yields just 3.137 % — less than half of the tax free municipal bond!

High yield bonds have more interest rate sensitivity with duration of just less than 5 years and an average maturity of 6.8 years.

If your bond yields 2 % less than market but matures in a year, then it's worth $ 98, but if it matures in 56 years, then it's only worth 0.98 ^ 56 = $ 32.

As we went to press, top yields for a handful of five - year GICs were around 3 %, compared with less than 1.5 % on federal bonds of the same maturity.

They invest primarily in high yield bonds with an effective maturity of less than three years but can also have money in short term debt, preferred stock, convertible bonds, and fixed - or floating - rate bank loans.

As a result, yields on government bonds with maturities of 10 years or less are negative, according to Bloomberg data.

Short term funds that hold bonds with maturities from 1 to 3 years are less susceptible to rising yields.

Mortgage rates follow the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond, so what is happening with the short - term targets from the Fed matters far less.

A staggered bond portfolio of ultra-short maturity high - yield bonds of less than seven years will give you a solid, almost bulletproof portfolio with yields exceeding 6 % to 17 % a year.

The cash yield on the iShares CDN REIT Sector ETF (TSX: XRE) is approximately 5.45 %, a spread of less than 2 % over the 10 - year Government of Canada bond, which is currently yielding 3.55 %.

Short - term bonds with maturities of three years or less will usually have lower yields than long - term bonds with maturities of 10 years or more, which are more susceptible to interest rate risk.

This year investors who followed the MFIP were led to shorten maturities (therefore lowering their interest - rate risk) and also to use higher - yielding corporate bonds rather than Treasuries or mortgage - backed securities (thereby keeping lower duration and less interest - rate risk).

The current yield on a 10 - year U.S. bond stands at less than 2.5 %.

Historically, you have earned much of the yield of longer - term bonds by purchasing securities with five years or less to maturity.

The Fund provides exposure to the shorter duration segment of the high - yield bond market, investing primarily in investments with an expected duration profile of three years or less.

But 10 years after retirement, retirees with less remaining real wealth than the 2000 retiree faced much better market conditions in terms of lower cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratios, higher dividend yields, and generally higher bond yields.

For those who prefer the security of government bonds and are willing to accept a little less yield, Mr. Berman suggested the Claymore 1 - 5 year Laddered Government Bond ETF.

Those bonds could sell at yields less than the 10 - year.

We devised an index to see how much earnings growth the market is pricing in a given time (S&P 500 E / P less 7 - year AAA bond yield adjusted for one year of earning growth).

That's below the yield on 10 - year treasuries, so the often - cited argument that the income generated from holding stocks is preferred to that offered by bonds, holds far less weight.

KTP also carries a unique call - option: callable at any time at a price that would make the yield equal to the 30 - year US Treasury bond plus 20 basis points and never less than par ($ 25).

The investment manager for the stable value fund invests in a portfolio of intermediate term bonds with an average duration of approximately three to four years that will provide a significantly higher interest rate, or yield, than for example the short - term (average 60 days or less) securities typically held by a money market fund.

These adjustments may cause the average annual compounded return on the particular Savings Bond issue over 1, 2 or 5 years to be less than the 1, 2 and 5 - year reference yields.

We wrote at the time: «As of 7:48 a.m. this morning, the spread between the 10 - year Treasury Note (yielding 2.33 percent) and 30 - year Treasury Bond (yielding 2.81 percent) is even smaller, at a meager 48 basis points or less than half of one percent.

The index includes both investment grade and below investment grade rated (i.e., «high yield») securities and will include bonds, in the aggregate, that have a dollar weighted average years - to - maturity of three years or less.

«We continue to favor short maturity bonds in places like Australia, Israel and South Korea where yields between 3 and 5 percent have recently been available on bonds with less than two years of duration and strong creditworthiness in our assessment.

It's true that interest rates are near historical lows: as of early May, 10 - year Government of Canada bonds are yielding just over 1.5 %, and a broad - based bond index fund like the ones I recommend in my model portfolios yield a little less than 2 %.

High - yield bonds are typically issued with maturities of 10 years or less, and are callable after four to five years.

The portfolio might invest in a particular type of bond (government, municipal, mortgage or high - yield) or a particular maturity range (short - term: three years or less; intermediate term: three to 10 years; or long - term: usually 10 years or longer).

In one measure that Makin calls a «flashing red light,» yields on 10 - year Treasury bonds, which rise with inflation worries, have slipped to less than 3 % from 4 % in April.