Sentences with phrase «year government bonds when»

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

Not exact matches

Typically, a higher - rate environment will increase spreads for banks / insurers, but you're absolutely right that the 10 - year yield could stay flat, especially when the yields for government bonds of other countries are so low.

10 - year Canadian government bond yields had declined to as low as 0.90 % during mid-February, when recession fears hit an apex but ended the quarter at just over 1.2 %.

(Decades ago, when I was a young analyst in Canada, we would compare everything to the five - year government bond yield.)

When its economy was booming five years ago, the Mongolian government went on a spending spree, issuing $ 1.5 billion worth of so - called «Genghis bonds» to build infrastructure.

10 - year Canadian government bond yields had declined to as low as 0.90 % during mid-February, when recession fears hit an apex but ended the quarter at just over 1.2 %.

If one has bought a bond with few years left for maturity and if the yield to maturity (YTM) when the bond was bought was greater than risk free rate (government deposit rates), would it be ideal to...

We saw a similar situation in 2011, when Europe was imploding and the U.S. government had its debt rating cut: stocks plunged dramatically that year, but the DEX Universe Bond Index was up almost 10 %.

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

When the government of Canada increases its price on the long term bonds, an example is the 5 year term, the yields decreases.

When you buy a bond, you are in effect lending a company or the government, referred to as the bond issuers, some money for a specific period of time, typically anywhere from less than one year to 20 years.

This is quite a different result than earlier this year, when European bond market bonds sold off in fear that a Fed rate hike would lead to a shift away from European government bond markets to the higher yields and high quality of the US government bond market.

As an outcome, when Canada's government determines long - term prices of bonds, for instance a 5 year increase, the result would be a decrease in the yield.

Bank margins were at 4.5 per cent back in 2007, when five - year government of Canada bonds were yielding around 4.2 per cent.

When US government 10 - year bonds were below 3 percent and money was cheap, investors were more eager to buy into riskier ventures in developing nations.

And this can be clearly seen when you look at the overlay of inverted JPY pairs and the yield for benchmark German 10 - year government bonds.

The 10 - year Treasury note is one of the most quoted when discussing the performance of the U.S. government bond market and is also used as a benchmark by the mortgage market.

When governments want to raise money, they do so through a bond auction by issuing bills (typically short - term) and bonds (longer term — maturities can reach 30 years or more).

Someone who bought shorter duration bonds like 1 year or 5 years government bonds is not suffering capital losses when interest rates rise, just as long he can hold the bonds till maturity.

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.

This was when stock markets were averaging 15 % annually, 3 % GDP growth was considered a bad year, government bonds yielded between 5 % and 10 %, the highest marginal tax rate on ordinary income was ~ 70 %, just about the only way to invest was to pay a full - service stockbroker over 5 % commission to buy a stock or a mutual fund, and inflation was averaging 4 % to 8 % annually.

One can start moving towards debt when your retirement is 5 years away by investing say 20 % corpus each year in debt funds, which invest in government and corporate bonds.