Sentences with phrase «year government bond despite»

Last summer, investors were happy to snap up Argentina's 100 - year government bond despite continual political turbulence and a lousy credit history.

Not exact matches

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.

U.S. government bond yields and the dollar rose, while U.S. stocks fell on Sept. 20 after the Federal Reserve signalled it still expects to increase interest rates one more time by the end of the year despite a recent bout of low inflation.

Despite the Bank of Canada's two consecutive interest rate hikes this year, the yield on the government 10 - year bond is still 2.18 %.

In 2000, I wrote a short paper entitled «Death of the Risk Premium,» with Ron Ryan, which was received with widespread derision, but ultimately proved correct: plain old 10 - year government bonds have produced higher returns than stocks since then, by a cumulative margin of over 30 %, despite the durable bull market since 2002.

A U.S. Government 10 - year bond yields 1.96 % (very low yield, and so very low perceived risk of default, despite the credit downgrade)

Despite Spain's economy minister trying to reassure the markets that the fear of contagion into Spain is significantly less than three years ago, Spain's government bond markets declined on Monday as well.

Despite all the news articles, history shows that when the yield of the 10 - year government bond is below 5 %, stock returns tend to be positively correlated with increasing interest rates.