Sentences with phrase «yield levels do»

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«The Fed has moved up the short - end rate up to 2 percent, and the 2 - year note yield has moved up to the 2.5 percent level... It doesn't seem there's any significant slowdown in the economy.»

The 10 - year Treasury yield has finally done it, surpassing the widely watched 3 percent level on Tuesday.

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.

You already know that I do not chase high yield fantasies but gravitate to value, sustainable yield and stability and for now, at these depressed levels the Canadian banks seem to fit that bill.

The population crashes because we don't have oil to keep crop yields at stratospheric levels.

Why not define «trends» by comparing the yield (or level) of the S&P to some moving average, and be done with it?

The 10 - year US bond yield breaking through the 3 per cent danger level worries India, as it does every emerging market.

Just because there is a rule stipulating that QE program purchases of sovereign bonds be in relation to GDP, the ECB has and will continue to do «whatever it takes» in order to prevent peripheral Eurozone bond yields from blowing out to near - reality levels.

The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early spring as that is causing some concerns on crop yields as I do think wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.

If the 10 - year yield stays at this level, then, according to our indicator, we don't have to start worrying about stocks until the 90 - day yield gets over 1 %.

I do think there is merit in looking at general rates (we likely won't return to the rate environment of the early 1980's for example), but I wouldn't be getting excited about stock prices at these levels for the sole reason that bond yields are really low.

Given assumed actuarial return assumptions of the moment, that could be true, but certainly not at current nominal Treasury yield levels that don't even come close to these assumed return levels.

That's a 10 - 14 % pa earnings yield on average if earnings don't grow, but bobble around the same level, indefinitely.

«For the next 12 months, these levels [in bond yields] will hold; the damage for the near term has been done.»

Merely securing a high yield of a few select crops does not solve the problem of hunger nor secure livelihoods for smallholders, and leads to high levels of post-harvest spoilage and food waste.

The egalitarian fathers in our study give evidence to the fact that doing so will very likely yield the highest levels of career and life satisfaction.

With your donation campaigns, you can analyze which ads performed best and which gave yielded the highest about of donations, but can't do much tracking on the individual donor level.

I don't expect something on the level of The Power Broker (Robert Caro's study on the power of Robert Moses) but do point to the processes and laws that supposedly yield power to an strong executive... there is a structural difference between executive and legislative... within that, personalities play a huge role.

While that does yield juice great juice, you can take it to the next level with a masticating juicer.

They don't need as much space as livestock, emit lower levels of greenhouse gases, and have a sky - high feed conversion rate: a single kilogram of feed yields 12 times more edible cricket protein than beef protein.

Yan, who joined the NJIT faculty in 2016, emphasizes that this advance is at the level of basic solar science, and that the breakthrough with respect to quantum yield does not equate to a substantial increase in the ultimate solar - to - hydrogen conversion efficiency.

Despite recent concerns that important crops in high - yielding regions have reached their production maximum, the rise in yield potential of new cultivars does not yet level off.

One variety boosts yields; another more efficiently metabolizes nitrogen; a third triples levels of amylose, a starch that doesn't spike blood sugar levels.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

«Whilst these diets don't test low sugar per se, they suggest a general reduction in carbohydrate (a significant proportion of this reduction will be in refined sugars) does not yield a clear extra benefit on blood sugar levels compared to other forms of diet.

A vigorous practice does yield benefits, but Restorative practice gains us access to deeper levels of being, the gateways to a quiet mind.

Matriculating students by the kazillion (it really does reach 75 percent in some colleges) are sent into K — 12 - level courses that yield them no credit toward a college degree and often lead to discouraged them to drop out of college.

When successful, though, they really do qualify students to tackle credit - bearing, college - level courses that can yield a degree of some worth in the real world.

Doing so yields brain - based learning experiences that get blood flowing and provide additional oxygen to the brain — thus enabling higher levels of learning.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

And some of that getting fit, of course, is painful, but what it ultimately does is yield a level of efficiency within the company.

However, for bonds to provide a similar level of return as they did during the last equity bear market described above, yields would have to fall to approximately minus 2 %.

In reality rates have done the opposite as the yield on the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Index is a 2.52 %, far from its December 31st level of 3.03 %.

So who does like Treasury yields at these levels?

Higher rates of inflation and rising levels of correlations between the changes in bond yields and stock yields don't sound like a good combination, and it turns out that they're not.

The prevailing thinking is that given the different risk profiles between the asset classes, the recent level of reward (yield) does not compensate in the current economy.

Your side is that if you had opened an annual RESP plan of $ 116, (which we would do better in the comparison to say $ 1000 / year as fixed - income investments yield higher returns with the higher contribution levels).

The rate expresses how much the fund would yield if it paid income at the same level as it did in the prior seven days for a whole year.

I see that the yield did come up shortly after you posted this, but then quickly went down below previous levels.

I expect that we'll be inclined to increase our exposure in long - term bonds on any substantial price weakness and upward yield pressure, but that inclination will be gradual and proportionate - I don't think it's useful to think of any particular level on say the 10 - year or the 30 - year Treasury as a «buy.»

Private sector bonds have a higher level of risk compared to government (federal, state, or local) bonds, but they do have better yields.

Frankly, I don't think they matter a damn: Take note of where bond yields have actually ranged in the past few years — now if they manage to reach those levels again, why should that suddenly spell disaster for the markets?

Dividends, though, didn't rise to their previous levels, as even 2 % yields kept share prices safely above their net asset value.

But don't get used to that big payout; this exchange - traded fund has cut its distribution by 43 % in the past decade, and since corporate bond yields remain near their lowest levels in history, most analysts see further cuts in the future.

This means that securities that generally do well in a solid growth backdrop, such as stocks and high - yield bonds, are likely to underperform as they are dependent on a level of growth to support their valuations.

I do agree this is a great company but valuations are through the roof with the current prices, neither the yield or the high PE justifies buying at these levels, I think we'll see 90s in the coming days.

I do think there is merit in looking at general rates (we likely won't return to the rate environment of the early 1980's for example), but I wouldn't be getting excited about stock prices at these levels for the sole reason that bond yields are really low.

Take the two variables that you are using for your yield curve slope, and do a multiple regression using either the level of the S&P, or the return on the S&P over the next six months as a dependent variable.

We don't suggest any bond mutual funds for the Honour Roll portfolios this year, mainly because bond yields have dropped to such low levels that investing in a managed bond fund doesn't make sense.

Hey, Actuary, do you want to increase your allocation to high yield at these levels?»