Sentences with phrase «yielding assets abroad»

Banks «earned their way out of debt» by lending to global speculators who used the yen loans to convert into foreign currency and buy higher - yielding assets abroad — capped by Icelandic government bonds paying 15 %, and pocketing the arbitrage difference.

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There is also opportunity abroad: Non-U.S. stocks with the highest dividend yields (average price / earnings ratio of 15.8) are cheaper than domestic counterparts (23.1), according to O'Shaughnessy Asset Management.