Sentences with phrase «yield declines of»

Kentucky is the first state to tie its tests to the new national Common Core standards in English and math, and state officials had projected that the new, tougher standards could yield declines of as much as 50 percent.

Without adaptation, some Midwestern and Southern counties could see yield declines of more than 10 percent over the next five to 25 years if they continue to sow corn, wheat, soy and cotton, the report says.

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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.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

The U.S. dollar rose to a two - week high against a basket of currencies on Friday on rising U.S. yields, while sterling extended a decline in the wake of dovish comments from the head of the Bank of England.

Florida produces nearly half of U.S. citrus, despite recent declines in productivity.Since 2005, the state's citrus harvest has fallen by 70 percent partly due to citrus greening, a disease that cuts yields and makes fruit more bitter.

That's because there would no longer be declining valleys in yields, with the trough of 1.39 % established in 2012.

Additionally, in a bear market, if the fundamentals of a security remain strong but the market price declines, then yields go up.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

Treasury yields erase their earlier decline on Wednesday after stocks rebound in a volatile trading session that came in the backdrop of China's announcement it would levy its own batch of tariffs against the U.S.

MF Global's stock price declined two - thirds in the final week of October 2011 and its credit rating was reduced making its debt high - yield debt following huge quarterly losses.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

Information on real yields suggests that much of this move reflects expected declines in real exchange rates.

In 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart beyield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart beYield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart below).

Conversely, U.S. news of larger - than - expected unemployment rates and weekly unemployment claims caused Treasury yields to decline.

As of last week, the Market Climate in stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome that has historically produced periods of marginal new highs, slight declines, and yet further marginal highs, followed somewhat unpredictably by nearly vertical drops.

Since then, the arbitrage strategy has declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11 of these 16 years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.

In bonds, Friday's tepid unemployment report was accompanied by a substantial decline in both real and nominal yields - enough to move the Market Climate in bonds to a condition of both unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action.

Accordingly, our outlook for a further decline in Treasury yields is not as favorable as it might be in the presence of stronger evidence of immediate credit deterioration.

For example, if the market declines enough to clear the overbought, and overbullish components of present conditions, or if yields decline sufficiently to remove the present upward pressures we observe, and provided that market internals do not deteriorate notably, we would be left with a strenuously overvalued market, but with favorable market action and no negative syndromes.

The «search for yield», i.e. for better return on financial investments than the declining interest rate, thus led to the series of bubbles & bursts: deregulated savings & loans (immediately), high - tech stocks (late 90's), mortgage derivatives — > house prices (2000's).

The retailer has a very decent probability of going into bankruptcy or experiencing further declines, yet the bonds are still yielding 11.4 % when they should be yielding much more given the inherent risk in the position.

With the oil majors all trading at fair and undervalued prices due to the decline in oil prices I was able to both increase the yield of my portfolio while also getting great companies at a fair price.

«The leg - up in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.

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But in the face of a 4 - year high in the 10 - year bond yield and a 2 - week high in the DX, limiting gold's decline to single digit was a relief.

No doubt a lot of sideline money will be seeking some better values, price and yields with this recent decline.

As my CD interest income declines as they come due in 207, I plan to invest more and more of my 4 % yielding CDs in P2P lending.

As I noted last week, a strong decline in Treasury yields would actually be a bad omen here, because it would signal a rush to quality in the face of rising default risks and possibly fresh economic weakness.

Although a total of $ 800,000 in real estate crowdfunding sounds like a lot, I view it as buying a $ 800,000 portfolio of 12 + different properties across the country at much lower valuations and much higher net rental yields compared to having $ 2,740,000 in one very expensive rental property in San Francisco that is now at risk of depreciating due to declining rents and new tax legislation that limits mortgage interest deduction and SALT deduction.

Foreign central banks must choose between passively letting these inflows push up their exchange rates — thereby pricing their exports out of global markets — or recycling these inflows into U.S. Treasury bills yielding only 1 % and whose exchange value is declining.

Compensation for risk actually tended to decline gradually, as a result of a very strong «search for yield» by investors and heightened competition among intermediaries to lend.

As US consumer prices declined unexpectedly on a month - to - month basis, Treasury yields retreated, while the Dollar remained under pressure against the Euro (although a break above 1.24 didn't happen in the EUR / USD), while the safe - haven Yen regained some of its recent losses against the Greenback.

I note all of this because our Treasury model has just shifted to a strongly favorable stance, suggesting that Treasury yields may indeed enter a decline here.

This initiated a further decline in 10 - year government bond yields, which fell to all - time lows for nine large euro area countries including France, Ireland and Spain by 26 November, the end of the period under review (Graph 5, right - hand panel).

Portfolio insurance should focus on the risk of a sharp rise in bond yields that results in a decline in the valuation of broad assets.

As holders of monetary base try to get rid of their hot potatoes by purchasing Treasury bills, T - bill prices rise, and (per the Iron Law of Valuation) their yield declines.

As of last week, market conditions joined 1929, 1972, 2000, 2007 and 2011 (less memorable, but still associated with a near - 20 % market decline) as one of the worst periods on record to accept market risk, based on the syndrome of overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yield conditions presently in place.

A decomposition of 10 - year US Treasury yields into a future rate expectations component and a term premium suggests that declining term premia drove long - term rates lower both now and during the mid-2000s «conundrum» episode.

YTD, his Crisis Investment Opportunities newsletter has more than tripled the yield of the US S&P 500 after also returning positive yields last year, at a time in which the HUI gold bugs index declined by more than 50 % from January 2015 to January 2016.

Amidst this backdrop, the 10 - year Treasury yield declined while short term rates increased, causing further flattening of the yield curve.

Despite seeing its sovereign bond yields fall over the past 2 months — thank you ECB LTRO program — Italy's economy saw its second straight quarter of GDP decline in 4Q 2011.

With the exception of the very front end of the yield curve, Canadian government bond yields declined, as did spreads on investment grade corporate bonds.

Natural gas producers in the US Southeast are beginning to yield dividends from a bid to reverse declining production in one of the region's seemingly forgotten shale plays.

The crucial Nasdaq got close to its two week low before the closing bell, and still, all signs point to a continuation of the correction, although should short - term yields substantially decline that could help a recovery down the road.

The decline in yields from 2.25 % to 1.45 % puts the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT A-83) up 16.13 % year - to - date, as of July 15, 2016.

The yield on the US 10 - year Treasury note rose 10 basis points on the week to 2.39 %, while the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil declined modestly to $ 44.50 a barrel from $ 45.40 a week ago.

Conversely, when the price of a bond goes up, the effective yield declines.

Suppose that over the first 10 years of your holding period, interest rates decline, and the yield - to - maturity on your bond falls to 7 %.

The Madison, New Jersey - based real estate investment manager has seen a noticeable decline in the percentage of global property markets where yields continue to compress.