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Besides, as this research shows, even at today's low yields bonds remain an effective way to hedge equity risks and diversify your portfolio.

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The central bank said it will purchase Japanese government bonds so that the yield on the 10 - year note will remain at around zero percent.

«The Canadian dollar and bond yields remain near levels observed at that time.

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.

Others have noted that if the Fed continues raising short - term rates while long - term rates remain stalled, it could turn the shape of the bond yield curve upside down, a typical signal of recession.

«Net short positions on 10 - year Treasury notes are at historical highs, implying that rising US bond yields remains among hedge funds» major convictions.»

Separately, they also argued that bond yields are the «Achilles» heel of global markets,» arguing that «market pricing on Fed rate hikes, however, remains modest and there is to our minds significant risk of a more disorderly repricing of global bond yields.

Concern remained over higher bond yields after the yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury breached 3 percent level on Tuesday, making equities relatively less attractive.

While bond yields are slightly higher, financial conditions remain accommodative in Canada.

One of the best economic indicators, the yield curve or the spread between short and long - term bonds remains in positive territory, with the long - term much higher than the short.

SHYL tracks an index of USD - denominated high - yield corporate bonds with 0 to 5 years remaining to maturity.

Although the focus on the yield curve has led to fewer bond purchases, the Bank of Japan may have little choice but to continue to inject significant amounts of liquidity into an economy that remains beset by demographic challenges.

Generating income remains a struggle for many investors despite the recent surge in government bond yields.

Over the past year, the bond yield curve has been positive but flattening (short - term yields remained lower than long - term yields, but the differential has narrowed).

Bond yields are down slightly, credit spreads have remained well behaved while widening subtly, and there has been limited flight to traditional perceived safe havens like the U.S. dollar or gold.

High - yield bonds are in the eighth year of an investment cycle that has seen assets under management grow threefold, to $ 300 billion, so interest among investors remains high.

Japanese shares hit a two - month closing high on Tuesday with financials leading gains after U.S. bond yields spiked to four - year highs and as investors remained optimistic about upcoming earnings.

While she expected that bond yields might not fall too much near term as managers would need to allocate some funds to cash bonds, swaps and futures would likely remain under pressure.

As long as Group of Seven nation bond yields remain generally lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay lower for even longer.

The Market Climate remains on a Crash Warning, characterized by extremely unfavorable valuations, unfavorable trend uniformity, and hostile yield trends, particularly long - term bond yields and various measures of risk premiums.

In bonds, the Market Climate remains characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable yield pressures, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a duration of less than 1 year.

Yet the currency is likely to remain weak as zero - anchored Japanese 10 - year bond yields encourage local investors to buy higher - yielding foreign bonds.

While yields on government bonds remain unattractive, according to Stopford, investment - grade corporate bonds offer a modest pickup in yield — and high - yield bonds, a more significant advantage.

In bonds, the Market Climate remained characterized last week by unfavorable yield levels and modestly favorable yield trends.

Moreover, bond yields didn't remain on their upward trajectory making it particularly difficult for financials to perform in this kind of environment.

In addition, as discussed in the chapter on «Domestic Financial Markets», Australian bond yields remain relatively low, despite having risen a little recently.

Russ explains why the quest for yield will remain challenging and why it may be time to give high yield bonds another look.

The main exception to this global pattern has been Japan, where 10 - year bond yields have remained remarkably stable, generally trading in the range between 1.7 per cent and 1.8 per cent so far this year (Graph 8).

While spreads between yields on highly - rated corporate bonds and government bonds have remained above their historical averages, this continues to reflect strong demand for Commonwealth Government bonds rather than concerns about corporate credit quality.

The continuing low level of government bond yields has supported the search for yield that has been evident over the past couple of years, with the spread between yields on US government debt and yields on both corporate and emerging market debt remaining around historical lows over the past three months (Box B).

Global bond yields remain relatively low, reflecting expectations that global interest rates are still likely to remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.

Bonds have been in a bull market for 35 years and yields, though off their 2012 lows, remain at historic extremes.

Some worry interest rate / bond yield increases will kill the stock bull market, but that possibility remains some ways off in our estimation.

Yields on 10 - year US government bonds have remained within a relatively narrow range around 4.2 per cent over the past three months.

Notwithstanding this rise, bond yields in Japan remain at historically low levels, with 10 - year yields at 1.8 per cent.

Even though the yield - to - maturity for the remaining life of the bond is just 7 %, and the yield - to - maturity you bargained for when you bought the bond was only 10 %, the return you have earned over the first 10 years is an impressive 16.26 %!

The downside for investors, if a high yield bond is called, is the loss of interest return for the years remaining in the life of the bond.

Given these forces, along with more structural considerations ---- aging populations, institutional demand for bonds and a dearth of supply ---- I expect that long - term yields will remain low even as the Federal Reserve (Fed) starts to raise rates.

Despite the headline news on India's high deficits and low economic growth, the Indian bonds remain very popular among investors who hunt for yields.

If valuations remain high or increase, at some point higher yields may make bonds more attractive relative to equities.

If this bond - equity relationship remains unstable when yields are at risk of climbing further, long - term Treasuries may not play their traditional portfolio diversifying role.

Short term interest rates remain near zero, 10 - year bond yields have declined below 2 %, and our estimate of 10 - year S&P 500 total returns has declined to just 1.4 % (see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle for the arithmetic behind these historically - reliable estimates).

In bonds, the Market Climate last week remained characterized by relatively neutral yield levels and unfavorable yield trends.

BlackRock's base case for 2017 is that U.S. - led global reflation will accelerate, bond yields will gradually move higher and returns will remain low, as we write in our 2017 Global Investment Outlook.

The conditions have fueled a rally in Portugal's sovereign bonds so far this year, although they remain the second - highest yielding bonds in the eurozone, behind those of Greece.

An alternative, and perhaps more likely, interpretation is that the market expects that the target cash rate will remain below its average over recent years for some time, and this expectation is reflected in bond yields.

The implication of this for bond yields remains troublesome to say the least.

Long - term bond yields have been quite volatile since the previous Statement, and in net terms are up slightly, although they remain around 1/2 a percentage point lower than in mid 2002.

Dividend stocks currently yield more than government bonds in major markets such as Canada and may remain a valuable source of income even as interest rates slowly begin to rise south of the border.

In bonds, the Market Climate remained characterized last week by moderately unfavorable yield levels and favorable yield pressures.