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Climates differ and plants vary, but the basic rule for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature is that for every degree of warming, yields decline by 10 percent.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

Florida produces nearly half of U.S. citrus, despite recent declines in productivity.Since 2005, the state's citrus harvest has fallen by 70 percent partly due to citrus greening, a disease that cuts yields and makes fruit more bitter.

But cross-country differences in equity returns declined to pre-crisis levels while the range of yields on debt securities issued by banks and by non-financial corporations also narrowed, suggesting that there is some integration at least in prices of financial instruments.

Treasuries extended declines from October, pushing 10 - year yields to a five - week high, as the probability of a Federal Reserve interest - rate increase by year - end hovered near 50 percent.

Therefore, at current levels the maximum price return for UST 10 yr is 18 % calculated as follows: the yield declines from 2.91 % to 0 % and the price rises by 2.91 x 9 yr duration or 26.19 %.

It was pressured down to its low by a rising dollar (DX from 89.88 — 90.20, 2 - week high), which was boosted by a softening yen (107.35 — 107.70, rising US yields) a continued decline in the pound ($ 1.4095 - $ 1.4035, fallout from BOE's Carney comments that they could hold off raising rates next month), and a pullback in the euro ($ 1.2350 - $ 1.2295, miss on German PPI).

As of last week, the Market Climate in stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome that has historically produced periods of marginal new highs, slight declines, and yet further marginal highs, followed somewhat unpredictably by nearly vertical drops.

In bonds, Friday's tepid unemployment report was accompanied by a substantial decline in both real and nominal yields - enough to move the Market Climate in bonds to a condition of both unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action.

Emerging companies While many high yield bonds are issued by former investment grade companies in decline, the high yield market also provides financing opportunities for emerging companies seeking working capital for expansion or to fund acquisitions.

Compensation for risk actually tended to decline gradually, as a result of a very strong «search for yield» by investors and heightened competition among intermediaries to lend.

If our stock holdings lag the major indices (whether by gaining less or declining more), we would expect to achieve performance below Treasury bill yields.

As exhibited by declining Treasury yields and very modest inflation, this is at odds with conventional market forces and investors» expectations for growth.

This initiated a further decline in 10 - year government bond yields, which fell to all - time lows for nine large euro area countries including France, Ireland and Spain by 26 November, the end of the period under review (Graph 5, right - hand panel).

As holders of monetary base try to get rid of their hot potatoes by purchasing Treasury bills, T - bill prices rise, and (per the Iron Law of Valuation) their yield declines.

YTD, his Crisis Investment Opportunities newsletter has more than tripled the yield of the US S&P 500 after also returning positive yields last year, at a time in which the HUI gold bugs index declined by more than 50 % from January 2015 to January 2016.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

The pound fell 1 % after the announcement while yields on United Kingdom government bonds declined, aided in part by concerns expressed by the MPC that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit will continue to weigh on domestic activity, which has slowed even as global growth has accelerated.

Although inflation compensation, which has returned as an accurate measure of inflation expectations, plays a key role in the recent rise in longer - term rates, an earlier post illustrated that the primary reason for the longer decline in the 10 - Year Treasury note rate is the real, or inflation - adjusted, yield, as measured by the rate on 10 - Year Treasury Inflated Protected Securities.

We expect earnings growth to take over from multiple expansion as a driver of returns, and the decline in risk premia to largely be offset by a rise in underlying government bond yields.

Here's why: Most corrections in stocks are accompanied by a rise in bond prices (and a decline in yields) as investors take risk off the table and seek greater safety.

By purchasing these companies after a price decline, we find we are able to control risk in the portfolio as these investments often have less downside while offering a decent potential return.The U.S. Equity Fund seeks to invest in companies with a lower Price to Book Ratio, lower Price to Earnings Ratio and higher Dividend Yield than the S&P 500 index.

Despite this, rental yields even in these cities have declined to levels that are low by international standards and past experience.

Based on the data below, for each 1 % increase in the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield, STORE capital's dividend yield can be expected to rise by about 1.47 %, meaning the share price would be expected to decline (perhaps somewhat meaningfully) over the short - term.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt US interest rates have been in a general declining trend since 1981, when Paul Volcker was Federal Reserve chairman and the 10 - year Treasury bond yielded 16 %.

Growing crops that cope with high temperatures can boost yields up to 15 per cent, offsetting much of the almost 20 per cent decline expected by 2100.

Without fish, there can be no fishing — and such an outcome could be the future: A recent study indicates that the world's oceans appear headed toward a global collapse as overall fishing yields continue to decline dramatically, having dropped by some 10.6 million metric tons since 1994.

A high intensity tobacco control campaign would lead to a 2.5 % relative decline in smoking rates by 2015 and prevent 1.1 million deaths due to smoking by 2050, while stronger health warnings were projected to yield a relative 2.3 % reduction in smoking rates by 2050.

The models included terms for time (age in years, divided by 10 so the coefficients yield effects of decline over 10 years), age cohorts (age at baseline in five year bands) to adjust for secular effects, and an interaction term between age cohort and time, separately in men and women.

A study of some North African countries suggests that some rain - fed crop yields could decline as much as 50 percent in extreme years by 2020.

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.

In 2001 when the smoothed yield curve flattened, but didn't invert, World EPS again declined by more than 10 percent.

While the initial yield was high, your overall return has been eroded by a 25 % decline in the nominal value of your investment.

While I still believe U.S. yields are likely to rise modestly by year's end, last week's decline in yields is a reminder that we're in a «low - for - long» interest rate environment.

Most of our investments have characteristics that have been associated empirically with above - average investment rates of return over long measurement periods: a low stock price in relation to book value, a low price - to - earnings ratio, a low price - to - cash - flow ratio, an above - average dividend yield, a low price - to - sales ratio compared to other companies in the same industry, a significant pattern of purchases by insiders, a significant decline in share price.

Eventually a spike in stock prices and / or an earnings decline caused by a recession will lower the earnings yield on stocks, but until then, nervous investors will likely continue to underperform.

Flat Yield Curve - This curve indicates the yields of bonds with different maturities are relatively constant, and is seen when interest rates are expected to decline moderately but offset by positive term premium.

The return increase from an overall decline in 20 - year US bond yields, from a high of 14.1 % in September 1981 to 3.0 % in December 2015, may have been largely offset by lower income on reinvested cash flows.

Both are being supported by accommodative credit conditions, which have eased in recent weeks mainly owing to sharp declines in global bond yields.

These high yield, long duration bonds are impacted by both credit risk driven by declining tobacco use and the possibility of rising rates.

Given the declining yields in US equities and continued thirst for dividends by investors, I decided to run a screen over at Finviz.com to see if I could come up with any potential high yield candidates.

If the yields on either the 10 - year or the 20 - year bonds were to rise modestly — say, to 3.5 % for the 10 - year, and the 30 - year to 4 % — the market value of the bonds (or of bond funds investing in long - term Treasuries) would decline by 20 % to 30 %.

As the yields of many fixed - income securities declined after the financial crisis, the interest rates paid by corporate bonds made them more appealing.

The chart below shows the decline in the US Treasury yield over the last 21 years split between the real yield, as estimated by the Bloomberg Barclays US Inflation Linked Bonds Average Annual Yield, and the level of inflation expectations implied by the 10 - year nominal Treasury Bond yyield over the last 21 years split between the real yield, as estimated by the Bloomberg Barclays US Inflation Linked Bonds Average Annual Yield, and the level of inflation expectations implied by the 10 - year nominal Treasury Bond yyield, as estimated by the Bloomberg Barclays US Inflation Linked Bonds Average Annual Yield, and the level of inflation expectations implied by the 10 - year nominal Treasury Bond yYield, and the level of inflation expectations implied by the 10 - year nominal Treasury Bond yieldyield.

As explained by Charles Schwab Investment Management, and covered in a recent PlanSponsor article, [1] maintaining a given yield level implies adding credit risk when interest rates decline.

In 1982, the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note was nearly 15 %; since then, it has been in steady decline, barely cracking 2 % by 2012.

An increased dividend yield (caused by the price decline) has come at a much higher risk.

During periods of declining interest rates, certain mortgage REITs may hold mortgages that mortgagors elect to prepay, which can reduce the yield on securities issued by mortgage REITs.

(As of 3/31/18)-- The Buffalo High Yield Fund retreated 0.54 % for the quarter ending March 31, 2018, but outperformed the ICE BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Index (the «Index») by 37 bps, which declined 0.91 % during the period.

Dematerialization proved to be a useful myth: useful in that the term was convenient shorthand for the decline of the conventional art object (a painting or sculpture handmade by the artist - author); a myth in that so much advanced work of the period yielded a decidedly material proliferation of paperwork — handwritten or typed texts, contracts of ownership and certificates of authenticity, photographic documentation, inventories, and working drawings.