Sentences with phrase «yield levels while»

There is a tendency for investors to try to maintain yield levels while letting quality & covenants sag.

Not exact matches

The benchmark 10 - year U.S. note yield rose to a four - year high last week, while the short - term two - year yield reached its highest level since 2008 on Tuesday.

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.

While credit spreads and leading indicators appear to be fairly well behaved, many have noted the sinister looking shape of the yield curve, near its flattest level since before the global financial crisis (see the chart below).

Elsewhere, at the single country and asset class fund levels, High Yield Bond Funds recorded their ninth consecutive outflow while Inflation Protected Bond Funds took in fresh money for the 10th time in the 11 weeks, year - to - date.

So while there could be one or even five year periods where longer maturity bonds perform fairly well from these yield levels, over the long - term they're likely to be a poor investment in terms of earning a decent return over the rate of inflation.

The iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond (NYSEArca: HYG) reached $ 94.23 a share — its highest level since 2008 — while the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (NYSEArca: JNK) hit a two - year high of $ 41.05, says ETF Trends.

So while these «fallen angel» bonds have the potential to be intrinsically higher quality than debt originally issued at the junk or high - yield level, undue structural selling pressure from the downgrade can cause them to sell at a discount.

The government's 10 - year bonds rose, pushing yields to their lowest level this year, while the benchmark BUX stock index rallied the most in six weeks.

While the low level of credit spreads in Australia (and in other major bond markets) largely reflects favourable trading conditions for corporates, there is evidence that the search for yield has been a contributing factor.

Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while high yielding dividends, often considered «bond - like proxies,» have tended to be more vulnerable (due to their high debt levels) and have historically followed bond performance when rates rise.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

While the prospect of higher interest rates will keep investors on edge, it's not like we're returning to double - digit levels or the Fed is moving its terminal rate.So even the uptick in ten - year yields to 3 % or even 3.25 % is unlikely to kill the equity market rally as the benefits from fiscal stimulus should continue to feed through the markets.

The yield on 10 - year U.S. Treasury notes slipped slightly to 2.96 per cent following the release of the statement, while the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks climbed to its highest level of the day and the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell.

While high - yield bond recovery rates hover around the 35 percent level, recovery rates in the loan space are more toward the 75 percent range.

While both men sought to implement a dynamic view of experience, Whitehead chose to focus on the microcosmic level which resulted in his philosophy of organism, whereas Sullivan devoted his efforts to the particular realm of human existence which yielded his interpersonal theory of psychiatry.

Empirical, speculative, and rationalistic process thinkers differ, we suspect, on the nature of this dimension of experience, the proper ways of analyzing it, and in their conclusions concerning what can be accomplished by referring to this level of experience While all turn to this depth dimension of life, it is not clear that the «deep empiricism» of the rationalists, which yields universal and necessary truths, is the same as that form of «radical empiricism» whose adherents focus on the particular and the contingent.

Results from these MLTs showed that while the target level of beta - carotene in the grain was attained, average yield was lower than that of comparable local varieties preferred by farmers.

• «The Magic Number» teaching concept to help mothers maintain their milk supplies while pumping • Breast massage and compression to help mothers increase breast milk yields and overcome breastfeeding difficulties • New, more - conservative guidelines on the use of galactogogues • Fenugreek, milk volume, and prolactin levels in mothers of preterm infants • The safety and efficacy of placenta consumption as a galactogogue • Preparation, cleaning, and sterilization of breast pump parts • Appropriate use of nipple shields to improve breastfeeding outcomes • The importance of the mother - infant relationship in babies» growth and development

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

Though the environments included in the study could have supported plant populations greater than 32,000 plants per acre, the study concluded that maintaining a lower plant population while supplying the other inputs at the advanced level neither increased nor decreased yield.

While the yield contribution of each factor was greatest when applied as part of the full complement of advanced - level inputs, Gentry explained that the two management factors that were consistently the most influential for increasing yields were the Bt - trait and the strobilurin - containing fungicide.

While low levels of salt can improve the flavour of wine, in excess it can lead to unpalatable tastes, reduce fruit yield and damage the long - term health of grapevines — it is a problem experienced in premium wine regions around the world.

Phalan says that, while these examples show land sparing can be achieved, making sure that higher - yield farming benefits nature at scales that matter will require commitment from senior levels of government.

High pulse energies are for raw substrate treatment yielding a high level of cell killing and disintegration while moderate pulse protocols are used for recirculate where the focus lies on the control of the microbial community.

A functional connectivity approach at the subregional level may therefore yield novel insights into GAD.To determine whether distinct connectivity patterns can be reliably identified for the basolateral (BLA) and centromedial (CMA) subregions of the human amygdala, and to examine subregional connectivity patterns and potential compensatory amygdalar connectivity in GAD.Cross - sectional study.Academic medical center.Two cohorts of healthy control subjects (consisting of 17 and 31 subjects) and 16 patients with GAD.Functional connectivity with cytoarchitectonically determined BLA and CMA regions of interest, measured during functional magnetic resonance imaging performed while subjects were resting quietly in the scanner.

While these levels remain unfortunately low, animal studies provide us with some clues as to how to increase the sulforaphane yield of these bacteria — feed them more.66 In just four days of a high broccoli diet, those bacteria that thrive on cruciferous vegetables grow in number, leading to a change in composition of the microbial community and an increase in opportunistic bacteria that turn our broccoli into cancer - fighting sulforaphane.

Careful tuning by Ford's vehicle handling and ride team has yielded a Fusion with a dynamic character that will please a well - seasoned enthusiast while increasing the confidence level of less - experienced drivers.

While realization is still too far distant for an appraisal of results, his faith must be strong indeed if he is to retain his courage in the presence of distress, not happiness growing out of overproduction, so easily confused in the popular mind with overabundance; hunger in the midst of plenty; populations in poverty because their farms can no longer yield a livelihood and vast areas formerly productive, now appraised as below the level of agricultural classification.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note climbed to 3.122 percent Thursday, its highest market since July 8, 2011, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond hit 3.248 percent, its highest level since July 13, 2015.

Early in the week, the benchmark 10 - year U.S. Treasury note broke above 3.1 percent for the first time since 2011, while the two - year yield traded at its highest level in nearly 10 years.

In today's low rate environment, the investment grade corporate bond market in the US and abroad offers a way to pick up additional yield and diversification, while maintaining a relatively low level of risk.

While many delinquencies have been caused by adjustable rate mortgages for subprime borrowers or with gimmicky features which caused payments to reset to unnaturally high levels, the rise in ten - year Treasury yields is a warning that a broader population of mortgage holders could face higher mortgage rates.

In the credit markets, spreads on the high yield securities are approaching historically tight levels, while key credit metrics such as leverage and coverage ratios are showing signs of weakening.

While the multiple might not expand from current levels, EPS growth and dividend yield offer investors a nice return going forward.

«Psychologically, 3 per cent was the level at which clients wanted to achieve a yield while taking a medium level of risk, particularly as the base rate has been at historic lows,» Hooper says.

A little while ago, Bespoke Investment Group published two little pieces on the relationship between the yield curve and the absolute level of the S&P 500 over short time periods.

While 2.5 % is a relatively low number, in the otherwise low yield environment it provides a minimum base level from which to hopefully find some higher yielding stocks.

While the new Total International Bond Index Fund is, overall, fairly similar to the domestic Total Bond Market Index Fund, Vanguard's new Emerging Markets Government Bond Index Fund is an entirely different beast due to its level of credit risk and its corresponding yield.

Residential property values, for example, remain at the same level as 30 years ago — while yields are now about 4.0 % + (down from 5.0 - 6.0 %), which is incredibly favourable vs. the bond market (10 year JGB's now at 0.44 %).

The new debt raised by WFC and JPM will be primarily at this holding company level, though presumably the bank loans and revolving loan will be fully secured by Heinz's subsidiaries and their assets, while new high - yield notes would be unsecured.

For example, the MSCI World Index has fallen back to January 2014 levels and offering a paltry 2.5 per cent dividend yield while closer to home the S&P TSX is back down to October 2013 levels and offering a slightly higher 3.1 per cent dividend yield.

In fact, the S&P China Agency Bond Index outperformed all government sector - level indices and rose 6.87 % YTD, while its yield - to - worst also tightened by 100bps to 4.69 %.

German bunds have largely been range - bound in the sub 0.10 % level, while U.S. Treasury yields have risen nearly 100 bps in the past year.

Thus, while TIPS yields are at historically low levels, TIPS continue to look like a clear choice over nominal Treasuries in relative terms, because investors aren't paying a premium for unexpected inflation.

While the lowest level would be called the equity portion and be first in line to lose, in theory it paid a very high yield.

Fibers such as FOS, inulin, and resistant starch can lead to a significant increase in the production of butyrate, while fibers found in citrus pectin, citrus pulp, beet pulp, and cellulose yield relatively low levels of butyrate.8 This difference in butyrate production is directly related to the carbon structure of the individual fibers.

Travelers enrolled at the base level will receive five miles per dollar spent, while top levels will yield 11 miles per dollar, a change that can reduce award miles up to 51 % on a given trip.

XP or EXP as it is referred to in Digimon can be gained towards levelling up by each individual Digimon when they have participated and particularly won a battle with battles also rewarding the player with yen, while some battles even yield prizes.

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