Sentences with phrase «yielding bonds as»

Wall Street looks at high - yield bonds as a leading indicator for stocks.

Many investors use high yield bonds as part of their fixed income portfolios.

With a yield over 7 %, the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index reflects a yield of over 120bps higher than U.S. high yield bonds as tracked by the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index.

HYHG maintains full exposure to the credit risk of high yield bonds as a primary source of return, while the hedge is designed to alleviate the impact of rising rates.

As for distressed, if we look at high - yield bonds as a proxy, 5 % yields now leave little room for error... and let's not even mention Euro high - yield, where the spread actually fell below the most recent default rate!?

A video using the Regime Portfolios Backtest to check - in on using high - yield bonds as information into the state of the market.

Not exact matches

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6 of a cent to 97.34 cents US as the U.S. dollar and bond yields headed higher after the announcement.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.

The main stock index dropped by as much as 2.4 percent earlier, while the benchmark 10 - year government bond yield rose to 6.944 percent, the highest since August 2017.

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

It is not as if Ontario is having problem finding takers for its debt and yields on the province's bonds are competitive with other provinces.

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

If you take the view that few if any of Trump's proposals will play out as hoped, Fehr recommends a defensive positioning, with a heavy weighting to bonds and large - capitalization, high - yielding stocks such as telecoms, utilities and consumer staples.

For one thing, those 10 - year Canada bonds are yielding just 1.14 % and could lose value should interest rates rebound from their recent lows, as many market - watchers expect.

That relationship has played out this year — as interest rates have risen since January, the HYG high yield corporate bond ETF has come under pressure.

Markets around the globe have been keeping a close eye on the U.S. bond market as rising Treasury yields put investors on edge.

That's exactly what has happened over the last month, as shown in this graph of the yield on the 10 year US treasury bond for the last year (keep in mind that yields going up means prices going down):

When we talk about bond market liquidity it's important to understand that there are lots of different «pools» out there such as high yield bonds, munis, government bonds, etc..

So, it is a very different market than it was 10 years ago, and you're going to see a lot of corporate bond issuance as these infrastructure projects go out there, and you can capture some pretty good yields and you know what you're buying because it's a corporate bond.

And they're going to pass them onto you and me as consumers, and that will push some of the inflation data higher, with some bond - yield reaction to it.

Stock markets were routed around the globe on Monday and bond yields rose as resurgent U.S. inflation raised the possibility central banks would tighten policy more aggressively than had been expected.

Sure enough, the yield on a Canadian 10 - year bond has risen in tandem with its U.S. counterpart since the start of the year, even as Poloz has signaled caution ahead.

Also, as bond rates rise, some of the money that migrated over from the bond market in search of higher yields will return to the safety of fixed income.

In January, Miller said a rise in the 10 - year Treasury yield above 3 percent «will propel stocks significantly higher, as money exits bond funds for only the second year in the past 10.»

In other words, because investors can not generate a sufficient return from low - yielding bonds, they turn to stocks as their only alternative.

«If they do target aggressively the 2 percent inflation target, and undertake a significant amount of QE, that may have an impact on underlying JGB (Japanese government bond) yields as investors become concerned over Japan's debt,» he said.

In the short - term, however, this increased leverage may actually be bullish for junk bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market debt and mortgage - backed securities as it brings higher prices and lower yields, he said.

Serge Pepin, the head of BMO Investments, says people should consider corporate or high - yield bonds — also known as junk bonds — which pay higher yields than federal issues.

Among individual banking stocks, Bankia, Credit Agricole, ING and Banco Santander are «buy» - rated names, according to Deutsche Bank, as they all have a high positive correlation to U.S. bond yields.

Although there may not be a bond bubble, with investors starved for yield, Gundlach predicts a potential bubble could form in credit risk as investors increase their leverage on riskier debt securities like junk bonds and emerging market debt.

The gap between the 10 - year French and German government bond yields has widened to a five - day high as political uncertainty returned to France.

French bond yields widened their gap against German bunds on Tuesday morning as opinion polls showed increased uncertainty regarding who will become the next president of France.

Portugal has been profiting from lower bond yields, but as the ECB is expected to gradually lower its government bonds purchases, yields and spreads are expected to rise, which could hamper the improvement in government finances.

The Fed's low interest rate policy has driven more and more money into bond funds as investors search for higher yields.

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

Bond yields rose to the highs of the day as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell laid out a case where the Fed could raise rates more than it has forecast.

Bond yields move inversely to prices; as a bond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon paymeBond yields move inversely to prices; as a bond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon paymebond's yield declines, its price rises, offering investors the opportunity for capital returns in addition to the coupon payments.

It's the total earnings - per - share the market generates as a percent of the market's total value — a measure similar to the yield on bonds, where the yield rises when bond prices fall, and vice versa.

As interest rates rise, the prices of existing bonds fall in order to make the yield of their fixed coupons competitive in the market.

Back then, bond yields were much, much higher, as were savings rates.

The U.S. Federal Reserve's gauge of inflation remains stubbornly below its 2 percent target, but U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields spiked to near four - year highs in January as a bond sell - off gathered steam.

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.

April 26 - U.S. stock index futures pointed to a strong open for the tech - heavy Nasdaq on Thursday as a slew of upbeat earnings from Facebook and Qualcomm helped set aside worries over rising U.S. bond yields and corporate costs.

The higher bond yields go, the more pension funds will buy as they look to lock in long - term income streams to meet their liabilities.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

The yield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Novyield on the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of NovYield Bond index rose from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.

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.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

Rising bond yields are seen as good for the economy, but bad for stocks.