Sentences with phrase «yields at all time lows»

This would give you somewhere around 10 % ROE, and this includes 0 (breakeven) income from underwriting and really below average returns overall considering bond yields at all time lows.

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Now the mining sector offers attractive yields at a time when interest rates are at record lows.

U.S. Global Investors, Inc. can modify or terminate the voluntary limit at any time, which may lower a fund's yield or return.

The yield on CDZ is lower at 3.2 % and its price - to - earnings ratio is higher at about 15.3 times but it is much more diversified.

At that time, the 10 - year Treasury bond had a duration of just 6 years (due to the very high coupon payments and yield - to - maturity available), while the S&P 500 had an extraordinarily low duration of just 16 years.

«We are hoping «mom and pop» can do a little bit better than the bond market at a time of historically low yields.»

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised interest rates four times since 2015, but yields are still at historic lows.

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After December 31, 2014, this arrangement will become a voluntary limitation that may be changed or terminated by U.S. Global Investors at any time, which may lower the fund's yield or return.

From around 5.4 per cent at the time of the previous Statement, yields on 10 - year bonds fell to a low of 5.1 per cent in mid December, but have since risen back to near 5.4 per cent.

The 3 - month Treasury Bill rate reaches its height at the time as well, corresponding with a low and negative yield curve, but this height has varied.

This led to quite a sharp narrowing in the spread in bond yields between the two countries, from around 130 basis points at the time of the previous Statement to a low of 85 basis points in early December.

We are now at a time when equities are relatively expensive, bond yields are relatively low.

With lower demand for shorter - term securities, their yields actually go up, giving rise to an inverted yield curve when yields on longer - term securities have come down at the same time.

It doesn't mean that we won't experience inflation or higher bond yields at times, but we're likely to live in a low - yield environment for a very long while.

Even so, with the market's valuations today being cheaper than the two previous times that the S&P 500 traded at these levels — and with the yields on the two primary alternatives, bonds and cash, being very low by comparison — this could be a great time to own companies by investing in th stock market.

Although the yield may jump around a bit (12.5 % at present) and is contingent on the timing of asset sales, we expect investors to receive a hefty high single - digit to low double - digit return for quite some time.

The expense cap is a voluntary limit on total fund operating expenses (exclusive of any acquired fund fees and expenses, performance fees, extraordinary expenses, taxes, brokerage commissions and interest) that U.S. Global Investors, Inc. can modify or terminate at any time, which may lower a fund's yield or return.

At the same time, lots of stocks that trade on low PE's, low price to book values and high dividend yields have turned out to be terrible investments.

The expense ratio after waivers is a voluntary limit on total fund operating expenses (exclusive of any acquired fund fees and expenses, performance fees, taxes, brokerage commissions and interest) that U.S. Global Investors, Inc. can modify or terminate at any time, which may lower a fund's yield or return.

Depending on where the stock market and bond market are at the time, I'd like to deploy $ 300,000 of the proceeds in low risk investments that have a high chance of producing a 4 % gross yield.

«We think the recently lowered dividend payout is sustainable, providing investors with an attractive 6 per cent fully franked yield at current prices... we view the risks facing Telstra as more than reflected in the current stock price, trading at 12 times forward earnings per share and 5.5 times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation,» the analysts said.

In February, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis, he captivated the crowd with early results from a project in Africa that uses low - cost fertilizers and improved farming techniques to increase crop yields several times over.

Formative and summative assessments Old - fashioned assessments consume much valuable class - time, are either simple - minded in construction or labor intensive to evaluate, rarely work well across a broad range of students (it takes far too many questions to differentiate at the low and high ends as well as in the middle), and their turnaround is too slow to yield useful information when you really need it.

A lot of investors ask, «Well, why would you increase your allocation to international fixed income at this point in time when yields are low, sometimes somewhat negative depending on the region you're investing in?»

In a time where interest rates are at all time lows, understanding the bond price and yield relationship is important.

After all, the yield on fixed - income investments is at all - time lows and stock dividends aren't much better.

At such a time, they extend the time of the offering, and either lower the yield spread (raise the price), or increase the size of the deal.

2) More yield - seeking — spreads on mortgage bonds over Treasuries are at a 17 - year low, and as I measure it, and all - time low.

Here in 2016, the S&P 500 may close at a record high above 2130 at the same time that the 10 - year yield closes at a record low beneath 1.36 %.

With interest rates at all time lows, this company is able to provide a huge yield.

Stevens says the «bill gives FHA the authority to adjust its annual mortgage insurance premium, yielding approximately $ 300 million per month in value to the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund at a time when its reserves are perilously low.»

Rising rates could, over time, help restore the attractiveness of lower - risk government and shorter - duration debt — at the expense of more richly valued credit sectors that have benefited from the hunt for yield in recent years.

I'm having a hard time deciding on what to buy at the moment because yields are lower as well.

NNN's stock trades at 19.4 times estimated 2016 FFO per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8 %, which is significantly lower than its five - year average dividend yield of 4.9 %.

Given the relatively lower savings rates at this time, you may get more mileage from the Yield Pledge Checking account, which has some pretty attractive features that are focused on lowering costs instead.

This hypothetical income will differ (at times significantly) from the fund's actual experience; income distributions from the fund may be higher or lower than implied by the SEC yield.

A traditional static indexing approach leaves an investor overweight the riskiest assets at the riskiest times and underweight those low risk higher yielding assets when their returns are likely to be highest.

This leads to higher recovery rates than common stock, while at the same time offering much lower default rates compared to high - yield bonds.

With interest rates at all - time lows, investors are desperate for yield.

At the same time, and ordinary investment in a basket of lower investment grade and high yield bonds offers a nice return for those willing to live with some default risk, which is over-discounted here, even with things as bad as they are.

The way to think about it is that investors reached for yield at a time when stocks were in trouble, and indeed, rates went lower.

At the same time, I see traditional income investments such as bonds and certificates of deposit currently offering unattractive yields that are quite low.

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has raised interest rates four times since 2015, but yields are still at historic lows.

With lower demand for shorter - term securities, their yields actually go up, giving rise to an inverted yield curve when yields on longer - term securities have come down at the same time.

For bonds, we assume a low real return over the first 10 years: only 0 % real p.a., which is actually slightly above the 9/30/2016 10Y yield (1.61 %) minus the inflation expectation at the time (~ 2 %).

I thought it was a good buy then (even if the price was higher at the time), and it's now an even better buy with the lower price and subsequent higher yield.

The ideal stock (for dividend safety) will have a high (or medium - high) dividend yield and at the same time have a low dividend ratio.

General Mills is likely fairly valued at this time given its future growth prospects, high yield, and low risk (in relation to most other stocks).

The beginning of the previous year saw attractive offers yielding lowest mortgage rates in decades, and with that, an era of «mortgage wars» came into motion, with every major bank decreasing its mortgage rate to a shocking low value in order to attract customers at a time of economic instability.