(«Social - Skills Programs Found to
Yield Gains In Academic Subjects,» December 19, 2007.)
Research shows that shifting from formative assessment to improved informative assessing practices in classrooms typically
yield gains in student achievement roughly equivalent to one to two grade levels in learning.
And many states defied the theory [that «additional spending on education will
yield gains in test scores»] by showing gains even when they did not commit much in the way of additional resources.»
According to another popular theory, additional spending on education will
yield gains in test scores.
Writing Project Professional Development Continues to
Yield Gains in Student Writing Achievement (PDF).
Specific parent - training approaches
yielded gains in short - term language function and some challenging behaviors.
Not exact matches
On Tuesday, the
yield on the 10 - year Treasury note topped 3 percent, the first time it's done this
in more than four years, and extended
gains on Wednesday.
In other words, since December 2015, it has
gained 62 basis points, while the three - month
yield has
gained 174 basis points.
The jump
in the 10 - year Treasury
yield signals
gains for big banks and technology stocks, according to historical analysis using Kensho.
The seeds can provide significant
yield gains but the extent to which they have contributed to a rise
in production
in top grower...
The seeds can provide significant
yield gains but the extent to which they have contributed to a rise
in production
in top grower Ivory Coast is debated.
Bond
yields snapped higher, adding to their already steep
gains, and federal funds derivatives showed market expectations are moving closer to pricing
in a full three interest rate hikes by December.
Indeed, the 10 - year Treasury
yield hit a four - year high on Friday after the latest monthly U.S. jobs report showed solid wage
gains, effectively confirming an expected rate increase at the Federal Reserves next meeting,
in March.
This year's budget provides a sensitivity analysis for
yields on 10 - year bonds; should interest rates fall
in line with the BMO projections, the Ontario government will see estimated
gains of $ 400 million next year alone.
However, trade tension between the United States and China, and a rise
in U.S. Treasury
yields limited
gains last month.
Trading across U.S. government bond maturities was range - bound on Wednesday, with
yields little changed
in spite of
gains in the equity market
in the last few sessions.
In other words, equity dividends are higher by a third of a percentage points than quality bond
yields, and that's before the dividend tax credit and before any capital
gains.
Japan's Nikkei share average edged lower on Monday morning after index - heavy stocks such as SoftBank and Terumo lost ground, offsetting
gains in financial stocks, which rallied after U.S.
yields rose.
Japan's Nikkei share average fell on Monday as index heavyweight stocks such as SoftBank and Terumo lost ground, offsetting
gains in financials, which rallied after U.S.
yields rose.
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 addition to capital
gains, stocks historically paid a dividend
yield of about 4 %.
Since 1953, whenever the 10 - year Treasury
yield was higher than the 500's
yield by less than 100 bps, the S&P 500
gained an average 12 percent
in price during the subsequent 12 months, and recorded positive results nearly 90 percent of the time.
However, with both the 10 - year Treasury
yield and the average dividend
yield for a company on the S&P 500 hovering around 2.35 %, that doesn't leave much
in the way of real
gains if inflation is running at 2 % per annum.
The methodology provides a well - screened group of stocks that also delivers
yields greater than the market (S&P 500
yields ~ 2 % while the stocks
in our portfolio have an average
yield of 6.5 %), safety
in the sustainability of the
yield because of strong free cash flow, and the potential for capital
gains as each stock is currently undervalued.
Having said that, I was well aware that investments
in stocks are risky, that there is tremendous demand for
yield, and that stocks
in general, and many dividend stocks
in particular, have had huge
gains in recent years.
When the
yield on the S&P 500 was higher than that for the 10 - year, however, stocks rose an average 19 percent and
gained in price about 80 percent of the time,» he wrote.
Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real
yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise
in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings
in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs
in March and capped their third straight quarterly
gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases
in 2018 than previously projected.
The trade will be
in force for 33 days and
yields 6.14 % annualized while leaving 4.92 worth of room for capital
gains.
Later
in the afternoon, US stocks pared some
gains but went out firm (S&P +28 to 2667), while the 10 - year
yield hovered around 2.99 %.
In a working paper entitled «Taxation and Economic Efficiency» Department of Finance concluded that tax reductions on savings and investment
yield higher efficiency
gains than tax reductions on consumption.
If you first grow and then rebalance to more
yield returning investments, you will have to realize your
gains at some point along the way... I assume ideally you would prefer to do that
in a slow and steady process after retirement, but when you deal with growth stocks you might also want to protect your
gains by setting stop losses which could then create a huge taxable event on some random Friday morning...
Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey
in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar
gains against most high -
yielding currencies.
That view
gained momentum
in late February when the benchmark
yield climbed past 2.9 % — more than twice its historic lows
in July 2016 — following a Congressional question - and - answer session with the new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
As of 2H2017, I've invested a total of $ 510,000
in their platform to
gain more exposure to the heartland of America where real estate values are lower and
yields are higher.
Some 87 % of the applicants who
gain acceptance to the program actually enroll
in it — that's a very high
yield.
While there has been experimentation with robotics to perform some of these tasks, even with automation, it's unlikely that time
gains in order processing would
yield the sort of exponential speed improvement needed to propel Amazon into an untouchable position on delivery times.
Don't go barking up the wrong tree
in the Year of the Dog A predictable wave of profit taking and risk reduction, as is standard form ahead of US long weekends, dominated Friday session leading to USD
gains as US
yields pulled back.
Elsewhere, gold prices are down; Treasury
yields are generally flat; and oil is showing further
gains on rising tensions with Iraq and Iran
in early dealings.
Elsewhere
in precious metals, platinum posted strong
gains as the stock market wobbled and bond
yields backed off.
European bonds have even lower
yields than dollar - denominated bonds and, if they have less chance of capital losses
in 2017, they are unlikely to add a capital
gain to those piddling
yields.
As Japan's JGB market has shown for a decade, you don't need high
yields to see impressive
gains in bonds.
I don't really worry about stocks being «overvalued» other than the reviewing P / E; I think price is reflected
in the dividend
yield and I'm investing more for income than capital
gains.
US equities rose and the 10 - year Treasury
yield was at a four - year high at the open following
gains in the previous session but this situation is unstable and something must give, according to one analyst.
This extends muni bonds» multi-month-long streak
in net inflows — already one of the longest
in U.S. history — proving that
in a world of low government bond
yields and macroeconomic uncertainty, munis continue to be sought as a «safe haven» for their relatively low volatility, modest
gains and, of course, tax - free income.
Although there is no right or wrong way to profit
in the stock market, we feel the best way to
yield consistent stock trading profits is through following a disciplined, rule - based trading strategy and market timing system that
yields consistent
gains with the least amount of proportionate risk.
The 10 - year US Treasury
yield hit the key psychological 3 % earlier this week and now threatens to extend its
gains, placing risk assets
in jeopardy as investors weigh the potential consequences.
If they bought and held a Topix ETF (Japanese stocks) instead, they would earn a current dividend
yield of 2.37 percent per year, not including any
gains from potential appreciation
in the share prices.
In effect, market
gains (over and above T - bill
yields) from P / E multiples over 18 - 19 have historically been purely temporary.
This places the U.S.
in the difficult position of having to finance an enormous volume of capital needs from foreigners, particularly for Treasury debt, yet without being able to offer competitive
yields or strong prospects for additional capital
gains.
In contrast, between late - 2011 and mid-2014, T - bill
yields averaged less than 5 basis points, and the majority of the intervening market
gains overlapped the roughly one - third of that span when our present, adapted measures would encourage a constructive outlook (largely on the basis of favorable market internals).