Year - to - date issuance for global high -
yield debt reached the highest level for any full year in September and continues to expand.
Not exact matches
In other words, the combination of a
reach for
yield, tax incentives, and the belief that default is impossible all contributed to a
debt crisis that is likely not going to end well.
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yield reaches 3.0 % for first time since 2014: CNN Money
Trying to anticipate the changing environment, and high corporate
debt levels, suggest it would be wise to start taking a more defensive position on equities long before
yields on 10 - year Treasuries
reach 5 %.
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.
«We've also seen the compression of spreads on high -
yield debt, which certainly looks like a
reach for
yield type of...
I noted a couple of weeks ago that the implied default probability for Greek
debt had
reached about 100 % on the basis of 2 - year
yield spreads.
This cycle will turn when the cash flow
yield of assets
reaches levels people can make money on in the worst environments; where equity funds new projects with no
debt, and the profit is obvious.
In Canada,
yields on two - year and five - year government
debt have
reached the highest since 2011.
It's cheap (taking the midpoint of its guidance it's on less than 5.5 x earnings), it has got a strong balance sheet (net
debt / EBITDA was 0.8 x at end - 2010), it has a stable business model (it is the biggest distributor of fruit and vegetables in Europe, with a
reach that enables it to supply multiples across different countries), it has a decent dividend
yield (circa 4.5 %) and it is spitting out cash (free cash flow for the twelve months ended 30 June 2011 amounted to $ 29.0 m — that's nearly a quarter of the group's market cap).