Sentences with phrase «yield points in»

While the American Express cards still yield points in ATO transactions, this comes at a cost.

And one of her few friends, a person who admired her deeply, remarked that he had never once known her to yield a point in an argument!

Not exact matches

The U.S. Treasury is scheduled to announce its findings on a refunding survey on Wednesday, with analysts projecting an increase in auction sizes, or new issuance at different points on the yield curve.

«If U.S. rates move too quickly, they will dislocate [high yielding] assets more broadly and the most liquid emerging markets will not be immune to a selloff,» he added, pointing to the 2013 taper tantrum as an illustration of this idea in action.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

Since the bond market's «flash crash» back in October — when US 10 - year Treasury yields fell 34 basis points, or 0.34 % in one morning — concerns regarding liquidity and how resilient the bond market might be to shocks have lingered around the market.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

«We're not there at that point in the economic cycle so we believe high yield at this point does have a place in investors» portfolios that are diversified.»

In the bond market, the 10 - year US Treasury yield fell less than 1 basis point, to 2.79 %, near the key 3 % level that traders are closely watching.

The two - year yield touched 2.500 percent, which was last seen in September 2008 before subsiding to 2.483 percent, up 1 basis point on the day.

Powell's comment was pointed to by bond market strategists as a reason for a sudden pop in bond yields.

Last year, when the Fed hinted that it was going to stop buying bonds, tapering its quantitative easing, bond yields jumped nearly 2 % points in just a few days.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

«That we're at a point that we can start to sustain some rises in bond yields speaks to confidence in the economy.

In a sign of market interest, the longest portion of the offering, a 40 - year security may yield 1.45 percentage points above Treasuries, down from initial talk of 1.6 percentage points to 1.65 percentage points, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the deal is private.

In other words, since December 2015, it has gained 62 basis points, while the three - month yield has gained 174 basis points.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

«The yield curve is not nearly as much of a concern as I might have pointed to a couple months ago,» Evans said in Chicago after a speech, in response to a reporter's question.

At some point, investors who are conflating high - yielding consumer staples stocks with bonds or who are taking interest rate risk in long - dated Treasurys will see drawdowns as well.

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

The peer investing model has yielded some interesting data points not found in traditional venture capital investing.

In a note sent out to clients on Thursday, the team of Shahid Ladha and Timothy High wrote there are several factors that point to even higher yields and a steeper yield curve in the UIn a note sent out to clients on Thursday, the team of Shahid Ladha and Timothy High wrote there are several factors that point to even higher yields and a steeper yield curve in the Uin the US.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

Ms. Jones points out that from a low yield of 1.38 percent in July 2016, the 10 - year Treasury note now yields nearly 3 percent.

The yield gap between U.S. 5 - year notes and 30 - year bonds narrowed to 27.20 basis points, the tightest spread in more than six years.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note was up 3 basis points at 2.227 percent, after closing at 2.201 in the previous session.

Banks rose along with the bond yields, as the S&P / TSX composite index advanced 84.57 points to 15,524.01, helped in part by the influential financials sector.

Italian 10 - year bond yields fell 2.5 basis points (bps) to 1.754 percent while other euro zone yields were pushed higher by a sell - off in U.S. Treasuries and data suggesting the euro zone economy was not as weak as expected.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

BofA won bonds due in 2029 with a yield of 3.78 percent, which slightly increased the spread over the scale to 165 basis points from 163 basis points, according to MMD, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

If at this point we found that using an interest rate of 6.8 % in our calculations did not yield the exact bond price, we would have to continue our trials and test interest rates increasing in 0.01 % increments.

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

While the slope of the yield curve today may point to more modest returns in future years, we believe the bull market still has room to run.

Like the P / E ratio and the dividend yield, the payout ratio is a snapshot of a specific point in time - contrary to profit growth covering a whole period.

In the three months before August 1929, the high - yield spread spiked by 47 basis points, and in the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis pointIn the three months before August 1929, the high - yield spread spiked by 47 basis points, and in the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis pointin the three months before May 1937, it shot up 85 basis points.

At some point, provided that dividend is safe and investors are convinced it is going to be maintained, the dividend yield on the stock itself is going to be so attractive that it brings in buyers from the sidelines, people who otherwise can not stand to see the yield right there in front of them without doing something about it.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

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 belowIn 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 belowin 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 belowin March and August (see the chart below).

At some point, if these policies are inflationary, then the vigilantes or those that hold dollar reserves, such as China and Brazil and Mexico, they will be in the driver's seat in terms of longer - term Treasury debt, 10 years and 30 years Treasury debt in terms of their yield.

While the «pure» MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index outperformed its parent MSCI World Index from November 1998 to August 2015, when we applied screens to the stocks in our study to avoid yield - traps, the active return increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage poYield Index outperformed its parent MSCI World Index from November 1998 to August 2015, when we applied screens to the stocks in our study to avoid yield - traps, the active return increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage poyield - traps, the active return increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage points.

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.

Buying an S&P 500 stock that TheStreet Ratings rated a buy yielded a 16.56 % return in 2014, beating the S&P 500 Total Return Index by 304 basis points.

Desai said that high - yield bonds also mean high risk, and pointed to the volatility of high - yield energy bonds, especially in the past year.

For example, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields closed in on 2.50 percent last week, roughly 50 basis points (0.50 percent) higher than their late April levels.

Among emerging market stocks, results with rule - based screening were even higher — when these screens were applied, the EM High Dividend Yield Index outperformed its benchmark by 5.1 points in our simulation.

A lot of the upward momentum was disproportionately on the front end in response to the Bank of Canada's two consecutive interest rate hikes in the summer, while yields fell from the 20 - year point onward.

This leads to a frightening conclusion: that both lower quality and lower yields of such «previously sacrosanct debt represent a potential breaking point in our now 40 - year - old global monetary system.»

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.