Sentences with phrase «year government bonds»

I remember the early 1980s, when 10 - year government bonds yielded more than 16 %.

On those words alone, yields on Spanish 10 - year government bonds backed down from the 7 % threshold at which government finances are generally considered unsustainable.

It makes little sense to invest in an asset that's guaranteed to cost you money — which is the case with the two - year and five - year government bond right now.

A 10 - year government bond today sports a yield to maturity of around 1 %.

But recently many blue chip stocks have pulled ahead of 10 - year government bonds when it comes to yield.

Much of the volatility in stocks appears to be related to ten - year government bonds getting to around the 3 % level.

The German 10 - Year Government Bond Yield hit negative territory yesterday.

I thought it was interesting that on September 5 — the day after the announcement — two - year government bonds in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, France, Austria and Ireland all had negative yields.

Yet long - term interest rates are still remarkably low, with ten - year government bond rates at around two percent in the United States, around 0.5 percent in Germany, and around 0.2 percent in Japan as of the beginning of 2016.

Using daily data for the spot price of gold, equity indexes and 10 - year government bond indexes in local dollars for the U.S., UK, German and Japanese markets during January 1980 through December 2013 (except Japanese bond data commences January 1984), they find that: Keep Reading

Meanwhile, the yield on Switzerland's 50 - year government bond fell below zero for the first time on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

On June 29, the Claymore Inverse 10 Year Government Bond ETF (CIB) began trading on the TSX.

Using end - of - month total return data for 1 - year, 2 - year, 3 - year, 4 - year and 5 - year government bonds since 1962 for the U.S., 1970 for the UK, 1980 for Japan and 1975 for GM, all through 2011, they find that: Keep Reading

He considers two benchmarks: (1) an equally weighted portfolio of all 30 bonds (Equal Weight); and, (2) a GDP - weighted index of 10 - year government bonds of 17 non-U.S. developed countries (Foreign 10 - year).

And in Germany, yields on 10 - year government bonds recently dipped into negative territory for the first time ever.

«They own 80 percent of the [10 - year government bond] market, so what's the point of trading?»

Treasury yields edge lower on Thursday, with the 10 - year government bond hanging around its lowest level in about seven weeks

, Sile Li and Brian Lucey assess whether four precious metals (gold, silver, platinum and palladium) are safe havens relative to stock market indexes and 10 - year government bonds across 11 countries.

Five - year government bonds remained at 2.85 percent.

Using monthly levels of Moody's yield on seasoned Aaa corporate bonds and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) during October 1928 through February 2018 (about 90 years) and monthly levels of the 10 - year government bond interest rate and the stock market from Robert Shiller during January 1871 through February 2018 (about 148 years), we find that: Keep Reading

But the yields on 5 - and 10 - year government bonds trended the other way: they rose in 2009 and declined in 2010.

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

They estimate these premiums from monthly returns of rolling nearest contracts for: 12 global equity index futures series; eight global 10 - year government bond synthetic futures series; 22 commodity futures series; and, nine global currency forward series versus the U.S. dollar.

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

She suggests he steer clear of mutual funds and instead use $ 100,000 to buy blue - chip, dividend - paying stocks such as BCE, the five big banks, Enbridge and TransCanada Pipelines, while the remaining $ 20,000 is put into a bond exchange - traded fund like the iShares 1 - 5 Year Government Bond Index Fund (CLF).

This second trend borne from ultra-loose monetary policy has forced many investors to seek out higher - yielding alternatives including dividend stocks, which, on average, yield more than 10 - year government bonds in most major developed markets, including Canada (see chart below).

Fiscal credibility was restored and the ten - year government bond rate plummeted.

In the US, yields on 10 - year Government bonds fell through most of December and January, to around 4 per cent; they had mostly been in the range of 4 1/4 — 4 1/2 per cent through the second half of 2003.

I started off by asking why the Claymore Inverse 10 Year Government Bond ETF (CIB) was terminated and whether it presages any more fund closures.

Using end - of - month total return data for 1 - year, 2 - year, 3 - year, 4 - year and 5 - year government bonds since 1962 for the U.S., 1970 for the UK, 1980 for Japan and 1975 for GM, all through 2011,

Japan became the first G7 nation to auction 10 - year government bonds at a negative yield on March 1.

In a widely expected move, the BOJ maintained its short - term interest rate target at minus 0.1 percent and a pledge to guide 10 - year government bond yields around zero percent.

Given the global backdrop of an aging demographic, high debt levels, and some major trading partners that have 10 - year government bond yields below 1 % and sub-target inflation, the equilibrium level for the U.S. 10 - year government bonds seems more likely to reside below, rather than above, 3 % — in which case this cycle might end like many others with an inverted yield curve — who knows?

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

«Over the last 15 years, the difference between the five year government bond yield and the overnight Bank of Canada rate has been a reliable indicator of the trend growth in the Canadian economy.

First, he believes that an investor in a low - cost S&P index fund who reinvests all dividends will do better — very likely substantially better — than an investor who buys a 17 - year government bond and reinvests all of his coupons in the same instrument.

Germany's 10 - year government bond yield was up a basis point on Monday but still firmly below the 0.60 percent mark.

For instance, here is Germany's 5 - year government bond yield which is clearly pricing in much more demand ahead.

Indicating heightened worries over the French elections, the gap between French 10 - year government bond yields and their low - risk German equivalents was at its widest since November.

But the bank has taken more extreme measures, such as ramping up purchases to more than 40 percent of the market overall and saying it would control the yield curve by keeping the 10 - year government bond yield around 0 percent.

In March 2015, the China Financial Futures Exchange launched futures on the 10 - year government bond.

The yield on the German 10 - year Bund recently fell below zero, and the Swiss 30 - year government bond yield turned negative, in effect charging investors for the privilege of holding their cash.

Of course, they never did, for obvious reasons, and by the end of the 1980s, the fiscal credibility of the Finance Department was completely trashed and this was reflected in the risk premiums embedded in ten - year government bond rates.

1) The 10 - year government bond yield.

The list includes: real gross domestic product (GDP); GDP inflation, nominal GDP, 3 - month treasury bill rate, 10 - year government bond rate, exchange rate (US cents / C $), unemployment rate, consumer price index, and U.S. real GDP growth.

Given that the S&P 500 dividend yield is 2.05 % and the current 10 - year government bond yield is ~ 1.70 %, Brookfield Asset Management is clearly not a high yield dividend stock.