Yields of bonds in the index have risen by 88bps for the month of June so far.
High Yield municipal bonds tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond High Yield index have seen a positive 2.89 % return year to date with
yields of bonds in this index dropping by 30bps during January to end at 6.46 %.
Yields of Bonds in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index and the S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico Index as of January 31, 2014.
The S&P Municipal Bond Tobacco Index has seen a positive total return of 4.72 % year to date as average
yields of bonds in the index have dropped by 33bps in January.
yields of all bonds in the fund.
The average
yields of bonds in the S&P 500 Bond Index have also fallen but only by 25 basis points during this time frame, helped in part by the inclusion of the energy bond sector.
Yields of bonds in the S&P 500 BB High Yield Bond Index have risen 165 basis points since July 1st driving the total return down by over 5.3 % during that time.
The yields of bonds in the S&P Municipal Bond Puerto Rico General Obligation Index ended at 8.16 %.
Yields of bonds in the index have dropped 122bps to end March 7th 2014 at 7.12 %.
In other words bond traders look at
the yield of a bond in terms of where it is trading vs. treasuries.
The average
yield of bonds in the S&P 500 7 - 10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index has fallen by 94bps since year end as the yield thirsty market place has hunted yield oriented products.
The average
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At the end of March the average
yield of bonds in the index was a 5.17 % and ended June 10th at a 3.95 % — a 122 basis point drop.
I assume that the formula will take the dividend yields of stock and
the yield of bonds in to account (not sure if there are any other components).
Not exact matches
LONDON, April 23 - Hamstrung by a renewed slump
in volatility and lack
of clear market direction, FX and
bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher
yields.
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.
The
bond purchases, the third round
of quantitative easing embarked upon by the Fed
in the wake
of the 2008 financial collapse and subsequent recession, have kept interest rates and
bond yields low.
Much
of the shift lower
in our
yield forecasts derives from the view that the ECB [European Central Bank] will continue to buy
bonds in its QE [Quantitative Easing] program.
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):
The lack
of proper and transparent interactions between algorithms poses a security risk
in case unintended interactions between algorithms create incidents — like the U.S. Treasury
Bonds «flash crash»
of October 2014 that saw
bond yields drastically drop briefly before the algorithms corrected themselves.
«The credit quality, this move up
in interest rates, this loss
of a four - decade uptrend
in bonds, downtrend
in yields, that's the source
of the volatility which I think far surpasses these amazing developments technology has come across
in the last couple
of decades,» said Gordon.
The
bonds of iHeartMedia have long been
in the basket
of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their
yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury
yields.
REITs have long been popular with income - seeking investors
in this era
of miniscule government
bond yields.
Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD Bank, doubts another rate hike
in the U.S. would have much
of an impact on
bond yields in Canada.
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.
While investors will have to find stocks with higher
yields, pay more for them and take on more risk
in bonds, the biggest change
in a permanently low - rate world is that people will need to set aside more
of every paycheque if they want to keep the same goal for retirement income.
Exchange - traded funds that track high -
yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries
of a cash surge
in recent weeks.
He started
in high -
yield bonds and went on during the internet boom to turn a million dollars
in patent acquisitions into a portfolio
of software intellectual property worth $ 150 million.
Gundlach predicts that both high -
yield bonds and a portfolio
of mortgage - backed securities could return about 6 percent
in 2013.
The sell off
in the market for high
yield debt, or junk
bonds, is now hitting a type
of structured
bond that is similar to the the type that blew up
in the financial crisis.
A spike
in bond yields and a clear change
of direction from central banks means there isn't a lot
of value
in global
bond markets, a fund manager told CNBC on Tuesday.
The longest - term portion
of the offering, $ 8 billion
of bonds maturing
in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to
yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.
(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury
yield topped 3 percent for the first time
in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability
of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market
in bonds is numbered.
The gap between the earnings
yield on the S&P and Baa corporate
bonds is over two standard deviations
in favour
of stocks.
As interest rates rise, the prices
of existing
bonds fall
in order to make the
yield of their fixed coupons competitive
in the market.
He has implemented a massive stimulus policy by cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate to negative, keeping the 10 - year Japanese government
bond yield near 0 percent
in an effort to control the
yield curve and stepping up the Bank
of Japan's asset purchases.
Those figures come
in an atmosphere
of low interest rates, which depress
bond yields, and a relatively flat S&P 500 over the 12 months ending June.
«If we assume extremely pessimistic nominal earnings growth
of 3 % over the coming decade and a compression
in the price - earnings ratio to 10, equities would still deliver returns above current
bond yields.
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.
«But due to the low coupons prevailing, even a gradual rise
in yields will result
in negative returns on a wide range
of government
bonds over the coming quarters.»
The Vanguard High
Yield Corporate
Bond fund has underperformed Treasuries
in the recent downturn, but it still has a positive return
of 0.5 percent
in the year - to - date through Oct. 27.
However, rates have retreated from over 8 percent
in the last several weeks, and the credit risk
of high -
yield bonds can offer some diversification from the interest - rate risk
of a portfolio
of Treasury
bonds.
Dip
in share prices and
bond yields, along with the upcoming election has had an impact on the state
of the global economy, causing a setback
in business travel growth.
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.
This makes sense; lower growth should result
in bond yields falling, anticipating lower Bank
of Canada rates
in the future and less need for a risk premium around inflation.
That's also making Austrian
bond yields spike, ushering
in a new phase
of the sovereign debt crisis from the East.
Germany's benchmark 10 - year
bond yield was up almost 2 bps at 0.58 percent
in early trade, above a one - week low
of 0.56 percent hit on Friday.
«Over the last 15 years, the difference between the five year government
bond yield and the overnight Bank
of Canada rate has been a reliable indicator
of the trend growth
in the Canadian economy.