Not exact matches
The
yield on Canadian 10 - year federal government
bonds have climbed to about 1.6 %
from about 1.3 %
on Election Day.
On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year
bond was
yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points
from before the Fed statement and up sharply
from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.
The
yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury jumped to its highest level since 2014
on Friday morning, underlining a wider move in
bond markets caused by central banks moving away
from financial crisis policies.
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.
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.
NEW YORK, Jan 18 - U.S. fund investors pulled $ 3.1 billion
from high -
yield «junk»
bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed
on Thursday, offering new warning signs about risk appetite despite global markets» continuing triumph.
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 Nov
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 Nov
Yield Bond index rose
from just over 6 percent at the end of May to 7.9 percent as of Nov. 17.
The
yield on Greece's three - year
bond, which has surged
from 4 % to 13.5 % since October, is now reflecting serious expectations that the country may end up outside of the Eurozone and unable to repay its euro - denominated debts.
Some investors might react by moving capital
from the U.S. to safe, stable Canada, putting some downward pressure
on Canadian
bond yields and pushing up the loonie, said Burleton.
Breakevens are indications of future inflation expectations, calculated by subtracting the
yield on Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities notes
from Treasury
bonds of the same duration.
Four of the top 10 funds in terms of inflows
from Oct. 7 - 13 came
from the
bond sector, and two of them were focused
on high -
yield, or junk.
More
from The New York Times: For
Bond Investors, Low Expectations in a Low -
Yield World Emerging Market
Bonds Are
on a Roll.
LONDON, April 30 - Government
bond yields in the euro area nudged higher
on Monday as focus turned to preliminary inflation data
from Germany and Italy, two of the bloc's biggest economies.
The
yield on the Merrill Lynch junk
bond composite is up 205bps
from last year's low of 5.16 %
on June 24 to 7.21 % currently.
Bond prices fell, sending the
yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note to its highest level in four years, following newly released minutes
from the U.S. Federal suggesting bullish sentiment among policy - makers and signalling more interest rate hikes ahead.
LONDON, April 25 (Reuters)- Worries over rising
bond yields and falling metals prices trumped well - received earnings updates
from Kering and Credit Suisse
on Wednesday, sending European shares to a one - week low.
U.S. government
bonds saw buying
on Tuesday, pulling
yields lower, after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was ousted
from the White House.
Looking ahead, we may see rising
yields along with a continued focus
from the government
on tax reform, and such a move could hurt the relative attractiveness of muni
bonds.
We trade all fixed income assets, with a focus
on more illiquid situations,
from high
yield, distressed and investment grade
bonds and convertible
bonds to public and private corporate securities and leveraged loans.
The blue line shows the same 10 year treasury
yield from the WSJ chart, while the red line shows the subsequent one year total return
on the 10 year
bond.
China's
bond yields climbed, with the benchmark 10 - year
yield rising as high as 3.346 percent
on Friday
from 3.233 percent
on Thursday.
Whatever happens to rates
from here it makes sense to reign in your expectations as a
bond investor based
on today's low starting
yields.
And even if the indicator was valid (counterfactually), the article asks readers to accept as given that earnings are properly reported here, that they will grow by nearly 50 % over the coming year, and that investors are willing to key the long - term return they require
from stocks to the
yield on 10 - year
bonds, which has been abnormally depressed in a flight to safety.
The 30 - day
yield also helps you compare
bond funds
from different companies
on a standard basis.
U.S.
bonds have been rallying for several months, but that came to an abrupt end last week as the
yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury
bond rose to 1.95 % while two - year
yields surged
from 0.49 % to nearly 0.65 %.
-LSB-...] happens to rates
from here it makes sense to reign in your expectations as a
bond investor based
on today's low starting
yields.
Some of the best indicators for mortgage rate movement include the
yield on 10 - year Treasury
bonds from the government and the LIBOR — a rate that determines how much banks must pay to borrow money
from each other.
As noted earlier, arbitrageurs obtain a twofold gain: the margin between Brazil's nearly 12 %
yield on its long - term government
bonds and the cost of U.S. credit (1 %), plus the foreign - exchange gain resulting
from the fact that the outflow
from dollars into reals has pushed up the real's exchange rate some 30 % —
from R$ 2.50 at the start of 2009 to $ 1.75 last week.
Income - producing investment ideas you can act
on,
from bond funds to high -
yield stocks - includes the Motley Fool Options service
At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard
from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year
bond when I get a higher
yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?
The curve is a comparison of
yields on everything
from the one - month Treasury bill to the 30 - year Treasury
bond.
Market participants are looking forward to getting their first major reading
on earnings
from the biggest technology - sector players in the coming days, but for now, investor sentiment has been able to overcome what would ordinarily be a troubling rise in long - term
bond yields that could signal a steeper move higher for interest rates in the near future.
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
yield on the German 10 - year
bond has fallen
from around 5.45 per cent to 5.20 per cent.
Composite Treasuries Sentiment: Taking a broader view of
bond market sentiment (our composite
bond market sentiment indicator combines the signal
from futures positioning, fund flows, implied volatility, and global
bond market breadth), it's readily apparent that
bond market sentiment has seen a reset
from relatively stretched bearishness to just
on the bullish side of neutral (i.e. the indicator is saying participants have gone
from expecting higher
bond yields to expecting lower
bond yields).
Yet,
bond investors have only piled
on more risk,
from record growth in high - risk, covenant - lite loans to leveraged - loan funds holding billions in collateral in over-indebted retailers to sustained lows in junk
bond yields.
The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising
bond yields, when the
yield on 10 - year
bonds in Australia moved
from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US
yield.
Former Fed Governor Stein highlighted that Federal Reserve's monetary policy transmission mechanism works through the «recruitment channel,» in such way that investors are «enlisted» to achieve central bank objectives by taking higher credit risks, or to rebalance portfolio by buying longer - term
bonds (thus taking
on higher duration risk) to seek higher
yield when faced with diminished returns
from safe assets.
, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up
on high quality
bonds because they're worried about poor returns
from low
yields.
Longer - term rates are falling too: The
yield on five - year government
bonds has fallen
from 1.9 per cent to 1.72 per cent in the past 10 days.
You may also be interested in considering High
Yield Bond ETFs High
Yield Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) High
Yield Closed End Funds High
Yield Utility Stock ETFs Return
from High
Yield ETFs to More
on High
Yield Passive Income
Putting aside the performance of
bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting
yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began
from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably
bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.
After having risen 19 basis points the first week of July, the
yield on the S&P / BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury
Bond Index dropped 20 basis points
from the July 3rd 2.72 % to its current 2.52 %, offsetting the initial increase.
Abstracting
from changes in the composition of corporate
bond indices, spreads between
yields on government and corporate
bonds have shown a small net decline over the past three months (Graph 48).
Still, we've observed diminishing returns
from the Fed's interventions, there is no political tolerance for the Fed to intervene in securities involving any credit risk that would be borne by U.S. citizens (purchasing European sovereign debt, for example), and the
yield on the 10 - year Treasury
bond is already down to 1.7 %, which is far below where it stood when prior interventions were initiated.
That's why there's a close (but far
from perfect) relationship between
yields on 10 - year Treasury
bonds and rates
on new fixed - rate mortgages (FRMs).
We take some comfort that
bond spreads have not moved significantly even as the
yield on the 10 - year has backed up three quarters of a point
from the 2016 lows (see chart below).
From early May to mid June, domestic
bond yields followed global
yields lower
on concerns about potential deflationary pressures in the US and related expectations of easier monetary policy abroad and in Australia.
Since early April, the
yield on 10 - year
bonds has moved
from being around 15 basis points above the cash rate to being around 20 basis points below.
You can trade the
bond yields on selected government
bonds from across the world.