Sentences with phrase «year yield began»

As the 10 - year yield began to really break out last week, the focus was also on the yield curve that had been getting flatter and flatter to a 2007 low.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

In a year marked by a significant milestone for rising interest rates (the 10 - year Treasury note yield topping 3 percent), an unusual winner has begun to emerge in the stock market: utility stocks.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

Since bottoming below zero (an «inverted» yield curve) back at the beginning of this year, the combination of higher five year yields and BoC rate cuts have sent this yield spread higher.

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

(The 10 stocks began the year with an average yield of 3.6 %.)

However, the reaction of the bond market is another story altogether, with yields on 10 - year Treasuries recently returning to about where they were when this year began.

We sold some small caps at the beginning of the year and some high - dividend yield growth funds during the summer.

Very quickly those gains reversed and as the trading day began to unfold, we saw the 10 - year Treasury note yield rise above 2 %, approximately 20 basis points wider than where it was trading just a few days ago.1

Yields on 10 - year US Treasuries rose close to 2.4 % after the release of May nonfarm payroll figures in early June, compared with under 1.9 % at the beginning of May and 1.6 % in January.

Although US Treasuries have been sliding since the beginning of the year, the uncertainty and volatility that we have seen in the past few weeks have pushed yields back down, forcing 10 - year Treasuries to close last week at 2.77 % — a level far away from the psychological 3 % level many have been waiting for.

While the USD aggregate yield for USD credits has risen to 4.95 % from 4.53 % on January 2, the OAS is trading only one bps wider compared to the beginning of the year despite fluctuations.

Although the past few weeks have seen the 10 - year Treasury yield hold stable around 2.9 %, US Treasury yields have risen by approximately 45 basis points since the beginning of the year.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

However, in the past year, as the Federal Reserve raised interest rates three times, money market yields have begun to inch up.

As a result, bond yields have risen in recent months, with the rise accelerating since the beginning of the year.

Since then benchmark Treasury yields, generally thought at the beginning of the year to move higher, decided to fall instead.

This chart shows that the US 2 - year T - Note yield began trending upward in 2011 — more than 6 years ago and more than 4 years prior to the Fed's first rate hike.

The fall in oil prices that culminated in big declines for stocks, emerging market assets and high yield bonds at the beginning of this year is the most recent manifestation of this linkage.

At the long end of the yield curve, sentiment began to improve noticeably a year ago, reflecting the decline in the Budget deficit and the improvement in inflation.

German 10 - year government bond yields have fallen to 0.14 percent from 0.63 percent at the beginning of the year.

Indeed, with the US Federal Reserve finally beginning to hike interest rates and half of all European government bonds of less than five - year maturity paying negative yields, it would appear to us that the rate cycle is bottoming.

Thomson Reuters reports that the volume of high - yield corporate debt reached $ 389 billion in 2012, an increase of 38 % from 2011 and the strongest year since records began in 1980.

«Indeed, our efforts at restoring business confidence are beginning to yield positive results, as confirmed by the AGI Business Barometer, showing a consistent rise in business confidence throughout this year.

There is evidence from Canada and Argentina that initially yields increased with GM and pesticide use fell.However, Charles Benbrook, an independent US scientist formerly of the US Department of Agriculture, carried out a series of systematic studies that showed that over a five - year period, yields began to fall and pesticide use markedly increased to counter the proliferation of volunteers and superweeds.

'' This is the beginning of the united effort of exerting final pressure to extricate ourselves from over 50 years span of un-established union with Ghana which has not yielded any benefits — social, economic and financial security to the common people of the land,» Mr Kudjordjie stated.

The one - house statements of priorities in the Democrat - controlled Assembly and Republican - controlled Senate will be passed this week, and their passage signals the official start to the negotiations that will yield a state spending plan for the new fiscal year, which begins April 1.

But over the past several years, discoveries have begun to yield some tantalizing clues about the end of the Ediacaran.

Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, the agricultural revolution began to yield vastly larger amounts of food from cultivated crops and livestock, allowing rapid growth in human populations.

Within two decades they began to understand their folly: During many years as little as 12 million acre - feet flowed, and under normal conditions the river would rarely yield close to the amount of water expected.

The U of I team began developing the tomato cultures that would yield heavier, traceable carbon molecules about 10 years ago.

Once the warming that had been going on for millions of years reached a threshold and that permafrost began to thaw, decomposing organic matter yielded 1.2 trillion tons of carbon as carbon dioxide and methane.

It takes 8 - 10 years for them to reach mature size; however, they will begin to bear fruit after two to three years and better yields after five years.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

In typical fashion, this year's Oscar race for Best Documentary Feature began at Sundance, with the festival yielding several standouts.

However, assuming that NCLB began in the 2003 — 04 school year yields smaller effects (a statistically significant 0.09 standard deviations in 4th - grade math and a smaller and statistically insignificant effect in 8th - grade math).

In addition, PCSD Instructional Coaches began sharing the student Galileo and SAGE data, working with teachers inside classrooms, and modeling high yield instructional practices, better known as job - embedded professional development, during the 2015 - 16 school year.

Two days earlier we began our testimonial tour to celebrate the life of the Defender, which, when it ceases production early next year, will end a 67 - year bloodline that began with the Series 1 Land Rover and has yielded more than 2 million vehicles.

For the past few years, I've been personally investigating the limitations of Word and seeing firsthand how well Word can yield a Kindle eBook, along with what does or doesn't work, and have just begun the process of tweaking my own HTML.

The fall in oil prices that culminated in big declines for stocks, emerging market assets and high yield bonds at the beginning of this year is the most recent manifestation of this linkage.

Yields on 10 - year Treasuries began the week around 1.75 %, rose as high as 1.88 %, and are now hovering around 1.84 %.

I think I would need to see 10 - year BBB corporates at yields of 7 % or so before I would begin edging in there.

Well, at the 30 - year auction, foreign interest was light at the lowest yield since regular auctions began in 1977.

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

Meanwhile, intermediate - grade corporate bonds tracked by Barron's began the year yielding 207 basis points above the 10 - year Treasury.

Since the beginning of the year, yields in the region are largely ending up higher, with a few exceptions.

Yields in U.K. gilts have tightened by 41 bps since the beginning of this year, with the S&P U.K. Gilt Bond Read more -LSB-...]

An easy way to attempt to find value stocks is to use the «Dogs of the Dow» investing strategy by purchasing the 10 highest dividend - yielding stocks on the Dow Jones at the beginning of each year and adjusting the portfolio every year thereafter.

The yield - to - worst of the S&P / BGCantor Current 30 - Year U.S. Treasury Index closed the month at 2.90 %, 17 bps tighter than at the beginning of the month, which was 3.06 %.