Sentences with phrase «year government bonds trended»

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«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.

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).

A decades - long trend of falling interest rates and falling inflation — and inflation expectations — seemed to have ended, as the 10 - year U.S. government bond yield broke the downward trend since 1987,» says chief strategist at Sparinvest David Bakkegaard Karsbøl in his monthly comment for February.

No doubt, the slope of the yield curve, as measured by the spread between two - and 10 - year government bonds, has been flattening since 2014 in both Canada and the United States, and the trend has recently intensified: as we headed into December, the curve sat at its flattest level since the Great Recession.

However... demographic trends and financial repression (the need for governments to maintain a supply of coerced purchasers of their bonds) suggest that developed market equities won't be a great investment class for the next ten years or so.