Sentences with phrase «year treasury yields of»

The 2001 - 2007 time period began and ended with 10 - year treasury yields of about 5 %.

The market with an earning yield of about 5 % looks much more attractive than 10 year treasury yields of 3.5 %.

But I am very pleased with the income potential — a 2.2 % return compares favorably to current 10 year treasury yields of about 2.7 %, considering that treasuries have no real capital gain potential, which could be significant over a 10 year period in the index stock funds.

The yield on equities is roughly 2.2 % versus the 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.5 %.

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

However, relative to the 10 - year Treasury yield of about 2.5 %, it appears reasonably valued in our opinion.

4 Based on 10 - year Treasury yield of 2.40 % on March 31, 2017.

Not exact matches

LONDON, April 30 - The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

NEW YORK, April 23 - The U.S. dollar rallied to a four - month high on Monday as the 10 - year Treasury yield's climb toward the psychologically important 3 percent level spurred buying of the greenback, leaving the euro and yen lower.

Elsewhere, the dollar held at a three - month high against a basket of currencies, after having received a boost from U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields holding near the key 3 percent level.

They typical yield around 4 percent while a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bill yields 2.58 percent as of Friday.

«The spread between the 2 - year and 10 - year Treasury is now the tightest it's been since 2007,» said Rob Morgan, chief investment officer at Sethi: «The flattening yield curve in 2007 was a harbinger of the Great Recession of 2008.

That's exactly what has happened over the last month, as shown in this graph of the yield on the 10 year US treasury bond for the last year (keep in mind that yields going up means prices going down):

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 29 billion in seven - year notes at a high yield of 2.952 percent on Wednesday.

Instead of shooting skyward after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates last week, yields on the 10 - year Treasury note fell — and have been steadily falling ever since.

But yields on the 10 - year Treasury fell after the announcement from the IMF, suggesting that traders might believe that the IMF statement signals a shifting of attitudes on the likelihood of a September interest rate hike.

U.S. borrowing plans this year and next will see a sharp rise in the sale of Treasurys and affect prices and yields, says Omar Slim of PineBridge Investments.

The longest portion of the offering, a 30 - year security, yields 1.95 percentage points above Treasuries, after initial talk of around 2.15 percentage points, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the details are private.

The market has likely already factored in Treasury yields above 3 percent for the 10 - year, says Kieran Calder of Union Bancaire Privee.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.

In a sign of market interest, the longest portion of the offering, a 40 - year security may yield 1.45 percentage points above Treasuries, down from initial talk of 1.6 percentage points to 1.65 percentage points, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the deal is private.

The pan-European STOXX 600 benchmark ended flat at the end of a choppy day, marginally weighed down after the U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield rose above 3 percent for the first time since 2014.

The 10 - year Treasury note yield hit a high of 2.99 percent, threatening to reach 3 percent.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

The Vanguard High Yield Corporate Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return of 0.5 percent in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note hit the key psychological level of 3 percent Tuesday for the first time since January 2014.

Comparing them to a 30 - year Treasury bond of 3 % (133 % yield ratio) and 1.9 % core inflation, their value is evident.

During a webcast presenting his 2017 outlook, Gundlach, the founder of DoubleLine Capital, said certain «second - tier» managers were focusing on 2.6 % as an important level for the 10 - year Treasury yield — a threshold beyond which the bull market in bonds would end.

«The rise of 10 - year U.S. Treasury yields in tandem with a stronger dollar have been the key drivers of this downturn,» the IIF said.

The yield on the 10 - year Treasury fell below 2 % for the first time since May 2013 in early trading in Europe, while gold rose to a three - week high of $ 1.213.60 a troy ounce, as investors once again shunned anything that smelled remotely of risk.

The U.S. 10 - year Treasury yield hit a high of 2.854 percent, its highest level since Jan. 23, 2014.

If true, this should accelerate upward momentum of Treasury yields and the U.S. dollar — currently at a 14 - year high — which could dampen gold's chances of repeating the rally we saw in the first half of this year.

Prior to some of the past recessions, the two - year Treasury yield rose above the 10 - year yield, although at the moment, the former is still below the 10 - year note, but has recently moved closer to it.

The outlook warned, however, that it is important to keep an eye on the yield curve — which tracks the movement of both the 10 - year and the two - year treasury yield.

Ms. Jones points out that from a low yield of 1.38 percent in July 2016, the 10 - year Treasury note now yields nearly 3 percent.

One of the best coincident and real - time indicators of bursting bubbles and recessions is the yield spread between US high - yield corporate bonds and the 10 - year US Treasury.

Yields on 10 - year Treasurys spiked to their highest level in roughly 10 months after Chinese officials recommended slowing or halting purchases of them.

Luciano Siracusano, chief investment strategist at ETF and index developer WisdomTree (wetf), says the 1,400 dividend - paying stocks in the company's WT Dividend index now have average yields of about 3 %, twice the yield of 10 - year Treasuries.

The yield curve - the plot of all of the yields on Treasury securities of maturities from four weeks to 30 years - is used as a signal of economic health of the economy.

Ten - year Italian bond yields have risen 17 basis points to 4.55 percent, since the news of an uncertain outcome spread on Monday but the Italian treasury is going ahead with a sale of 6.5 billion euros ($ 8.5 billion) of 5 and 10 - year bonds on Wednesday.

Indeed, Randell Moore, who survey's economists as the editor of the Blue Economic Indicators, says the current consensus is for the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond to rise to 3.25 % by the end of 2015.

The average stock on the S&P 500 stock index has a dividend yield of about 2 percent whereas the 10 - year Treasury note yields 1.7 percent.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasuries yield rose back to 2.888 percent from last week's low of 2.793 percent.

Though its risen recently, the real yield on the ten year Treasury hovers below 1 % (the 2.48 % rate, minus projected inflation of at least 1.5 points), an extremely favorable number by historical standards.

Pimco, one of the world's largest bond fund managers, and widely followed Guggenheim Partners are among the investors who say benchmark 10 - year Treasuries yielding 3 percent - now within reach - are too hard to resist.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield's rise above 3 percent last week for the first time in over four years may be cause for concern across wide swathes of financial markets, such as equities and emerging markets.

The Treasury Department auctioned $ 35 billion in five - year notes at a high yield of 2.837 percent on Wednesday.

The flattening of the yield curve could be exacerbated by Chinese sales of 5 - year Treasury notes.

Contributing to the stock market's agita so far this year has been the prospect that the 10 - year US Treasury Bond Yield may be on the verge of rising above 3.00 %, a level...