Sentences with phrase «yield losses by»

Moore and Lobell predict that corn farmers can reduce yield losses by as much as 87 percent through long - term adaptation.

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

• Set up and maintain equipment that led to the most minimized change - over time within 5 years • Reduce product yield loss by 58000 $ through dedicated production methods to work on the mechanics of time management • Coordinate with team members to maintain quality of production operations • Complete all production processes in agreement with the Quality Management System and ISO directives • Plan and coordinate with peers / supervisors to ensure safe operations and environmental compliance • Ensure equipment is set up to produce quality products and decrease change - over time and delays • Maintain mill operations with the help of Mill Operation Systems and other tools • Implement corrective actions and make adjustments for smooth running of processes • Perform preventive maintenance activities on production machinery

Not exact matches

Achievement of these goals was considered by the HRC as very challenging, even aggressive, given the expected modest economic growth for 2007 for the financial services industry, the impact and duration of the on - going flat / inverted yield curve (meaning short - term interest rates that are virtually equal to or exceed long - term interest rates, thus lowering profit margins for financial services companies that borrow cash at short - term rates and lend at long - term rates), potentially higher credit losses, fewer available high - quality, high - yielding loans and investment opportunities, and a consumer shift from non-interest to interest - bearing deposits.

Regardless, we believe that the S&P 500 is likely to experience flat returns or losses over the coming decade, and we remain concerned about growing financial distortions driven by yield - seeking malinvestment, as we were in the runup to the global financial crisis.»

Even with low yields and rising interest rates, bonds still tend to do their job by dampening volatility and minimizing losses for the overall portfolio.

In an unconstrained bond fund, the manager can hedge interest rate risk with futures, options, or swaps, or even short Treasury bonds or notes, and make up the loss in yield by overweighting credit.

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...

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The results of our study are consistent with financial complexity being a by - product of banks catering to yield - seeking investors: we found that products offering high headline rates and products exposing investors to complete losses are more complex.

In 2010 and 2011, lesser overvalued, overbought, overbullish extremes were followed by significant market losses, even though Treasury bill yields were only in the range of 10 - 15 basis points.

Washington Prime Group (WPG), a mall and shopping center REIT, had a 1.2 % yield, 35.7 forward price - per - earnings ratio and a 33 % loss in its 52 - week share price movement through Dec. 6, 2017, according to Thomson Reuters as reported by Investopedia.

% yield, 9.44 forward price - per - earnings ratio and a 3 % loss in its 52 - week share price movement through Dec. 6, 2017, according to Thomson Reuters as reported by Investopedia.

The Business Mirror also ran a story linking yield loss with climate change and how IRRI could help by developing better rice strains.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

The loss of fertile top soil by erosion results in a lower yield capacity on the onehand and in a undesired transfer of nutrients, pesticides and sediments in surface water on the other.

So far the building process at Acalanes has yielded wins over Alhambra - Martinez and Skyline - Oakland, followed by road losses to Heritage - Brentwood and 2015 NCS Division III finalist Analy - Sebastopol.

«By synthesizing the results of field studies across the globe, we wanted to better characterize the factors that determine the magnitude of yield loss in legumes due to drought stress, which must be considered in agricultural planning to increase the resilience of legume production systems,» Wang said.

Considering that over 50 % of calories in local diets come from maize, yield losses caused by MSV can result in food shortages and famine.

Since dense planting by farmers leads to a major loss of yield, knowledge of this pathway is already being put to good use.

Synthetic biology may hold the key to increasing yields on currently farmed land — and hence helping address food security — by enhancing photosynthesis and reducing pre-harvest losses, as well as reducing post-harvest and post-consumer waste.

Whenever susceptible rice varieties are grown in environments that favor bacterial blight, very high yield losses, as much as over 70 %, may be caused by bacterial blight.

And where the psyche and heart are dulled by the tension and disappointment of heartache, grief, and loss, those same relaxant effects yield nurturing and soothing.

Exercise and weight loss yield particularly good results by increasing insulin sensitivity and lowering body fat.

The resistant starch found in the baobab fruit and the short chain fatty acids it yields has been shown in research studies to favorably change the composition of friendly versus pathogenic microorganisms in the gut, slow glucose absorption to help control blood sugar levels by reducing insulin resistance, increase satiety and weight loss, reduce inflammatory allergic responses and improve immune system functioning (over 60 % of the immune system is located in or around the digestive system).

While it is true that preferred stocks may see price declines as traditional long - term bonds would, the losses may be more than offset by the potential yield.

At a 10 - year Treasury yield of 1.7 %, interest on reserves of 0.25 %, and a monetary base now at about 18 cents per dollar of nominal GDP (see Run, Don't Walk), further purchases of long - term Treasury securities by the Fed would produce net losses for the Fed in any scenario where yields rise more than about 20 basis points a year, or the Fed ever has to unwind any portion of its already massive positions.

Courageous capital owners who hunker down and fight against the natural human instinct to eliminate whatever inflicts pain and loss (and to seek more of what gives joy and profit) are rewarded both by keeping current yield and regaining lost capital as prices rebound to fair value.

Seemingly, this behavior might be construed as not leading to outperformance over time, because every spike in option - adjusted spread (OAS), a standard measure of the yield premium required by high - yield bondholders, would tend to eventually retract, and gains could easily be wiped out by symmetrical losses on the other side.

That means the fund's price would drop roughly 6 % for each one - percentage - point rise in interest rates (although that loss would be offset by the fund's annual yield of a little less than 2.5 %).

High - yield bonds are an equity - like asset class, whose returns are overwhelmingly driven by credit spreads and credit losses, not rates and duration.

Investors who have been chasing higher yields by moving down in credit will most likely experience a loss this month, as the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index has returned -1.26 % month - to - date.

Over the year, average UDIBonos yields, as measured by the, were up 110 bps, eroding coupon and inflation carry on the bonds, leading to a 1.8 % loss in terms of total return in pesos.

Underwriting volume this year for high - yield securities, known widely on Wall Street as junk debt, has sunk at firms such as Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan Chase, adding more salt to the wounds already inflicted by massive losses on souring mortgage securities.

The present environment is characterized by unusually overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions, with rising 10 - year Treasury bond yields, heavy insider selling, valuations on «forward earnings» appearing reasonable only because profit margins are more than 70 % above historical norms (fully explained by the negative sum of government and personal savings as a share of GDP), with the S&P 500 at a 4 - year market high, in a mature market advance, with lagging employment indicators still positive but more than half of all OECD countries already in GDP contraction, Europe in recession, Britain on the cusp, and the EU imposing massive losses on depositors in order to protect lenders in an unstable banking system where Cyprus is the iceberg's tip.

Agency securities are guaranteed by the U.S. government as to the timely payment of principal and interest, however this guarantee does not apply to the yield, nor does it protect against loss of principal if the bonds are sold prior to the payment of all underlying mortgages.

Yet, by and large, if you believe that costs, yields, and controlling the outcome (big gain, small gain, small loss only) determine success, ETFs are the way to go.

These sheets calculate the (annual) figures for: • Accrued interest that needs to be returned to the seller after settlement • Net bond basis • Original discount or premium • Annual (pro-rated) amortization of bond premium using both Constant Yield and Straight Line amortization, as required by the IRS • End - of - year basis • Annual coupons • Estimates of taxes due on coupons • Estimates of differences in taxes paid vs. not amortizing premiums • Capital loss or gain upon sale before maturity

The yield on a bond calculated by dividing the value of all the interest payments that will be paid until the maturity date, plus interest on interest, by the principal amount received at the maturity date, taking in to consideration whatever gain or loss is realized from the bond at the maturity date.

As interest rates rise, investors who reinvest the funds may be able to increase their cash flow by capturing higher yields on new issues, which could help offset any paper losses on existing holdings.

However, if you're planning to buy a Government of Canada bond and are satisfied with getting 4.5 % yield by holding the bond to maturity, then you can buy it now and hold to maturity without worrying about the loss of your original principal.

By locking in a yield at the beginning, the ladder helps insulate the bond buyer from price losses if the investor holds to maturity.

The high yield market (as measured by the BofA Merrill Lynch HY Master II Index) has rallied significantly since February 2016 and notched 20 consecutive months without posting a loss of 50 basis points (bps) or more, something that hasn't occurred in over 20 years.

GNMA's are guaranteed by the U.S. government as to the timely principal and interest, however this guarantee does not apply to the yield, nor does it protect against loss of principal if the bonds are sold prior to the payment of all underlying mortgages.

Provoked to visual explosions by the great Indian epic, The Ramayana, and by Celtic mythologies - they are not illustrations or literal translations; instead, they are transformations from myths to mysterious worlds where the boundaries between underworld and waking earth are traversable, terror coexists with joy, and loss must always yield to renewal.

This loss is exacerbated by the intensifying Climate Destabilization (reportedly reflecting the start of the «Albedo Loss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waloss is exacerbated by the intensifying Climate Destabilization (reportedly reflecting the start of the «Albedo Loss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waLoss» feedback due to the decline of Arctic sea - ice and ice caps) which is suppressing subsistence farm yields and some commercial farm yields on a random basis by the impacts of extreme droughts, storms, floods, and heat and cold waves.

Mr. Zhang and his co-workers also demonstrated that use of nitrogen fertilizer could be halved without loss of yield or grain quality, reducing nitrogen losses by more than 50 percent in the process.

Model projections suggest that although increased temperature and decreased soil moisture will act to reduce global crop yields by 2050, the direct fertilization effect of rising carbon dioxide concentration -LRB-[CO2]-RRB- will offset these losses.

Hiding behind the idea of a national right to hunt these mammals for food is an excellent ploy by those behind the hunts, as it divides the Japanese public with the concept that to yield to international pressure would be a loss of honour for its island people.

While other regions could help alleviate the losses by allocating more land to crops - thus preventing the projected 40 % decline in crop yields - the shift would come at a large cost.