Sentences with phrase «yields hit record»

Sterling fell 1 % against the dollar following the announcement, while British government bond yields hit record lows and the main share index rose by 1 %.

Still reeling from the effects of Britain's decision to leave the European Union, global investors showed increased demand for the safe haven of U.S. Treasuries, resulting in the 10 - year U.S. Treasury yield hitting a record low on July 6th.

(Note: The 10 - year yield hit its record low of 1.36 % in July of 2016.)

Not exact matches

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

And in the face of record valuations and record debt, we're seeing rising interest rates (the yield on the 10 - year Treasury hit 3 % last week for the first time since 2014) and other signs of inflation like rising oil and copper prices.

The yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note, which moves inversely to its price, hit a record of 1.378 percent, while the yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond was down at 2.1529 percent.

Even corporate junk bonds aren't so high - yield these days, with those securities yielding 6.36 percent on Friday, after hitting a record low of 5.98 percent last week.

After hitting a record low yield of -0.23 % on July 8, 2016, the S&P Japan Government Bond Index rebounded following a modest stimulus announcement later that month.

Tracking Puerto Rico municipal bonds since December 1998, the S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico Index hit a record high yield on September 9, 2013 with the index reaching a weighted average yield of slightly over 7 %.

He said there was cause for caution with equity markets hitting record highs, government bonds historically expensive, corporate and high - yield spreads at record lows, and «bitcoin mania» taking hold, creating a market capitalization of $ 500 billion with «as far as we can tell, zero intrinsic value.»

The drop in mortgage rates has come as bond yields have hit record low levels.

30 Year Fixed Rate Loan at a Cost of One Point: 3.5 % * (APR = 3.73 %) Rates remain very low, as bond yields are hitting record lows in Europe as a result of continued weak economic reports.