Sentences with phrase «yields points for»

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So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

Powell's comment was pointed to by bond market strategists as a reason for a sudden pop in bond yields.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

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.

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.

Check out 10 - year yields, for example, which are down 9 basis points today to 6.8 percent:

So if we can expect 3 more quarter - point hikes this year it would seem to make sense to stick to short - term CDs yielding around 2 % now and then look for a longer - term one at around 3.5 % at EOY, especially if one — I am in this camp — thinks that by EOY the odds of recession will have risen enough that further rate hikes in 2019 will be looking doubtful.

Gold surges toward $ 1400 / oz, S&P 500 tumbles to 2000, 10 - year Treasury yield to 1.5 %; if credit spreads don't crack (e.g. IBOXHYSE < 500bps) and Mexico peso finds quick low = entry point for risk - takers (especially if Trump protectionist fears allayed); until then best Trump trades = long gold, short EU banks, long US small - cap, short EM.

Rates for home loans eased up slightly as investors bought more bonds, sending yields down a few basis points.

Tehran also regularly criticises European countries for yielding to US pressure on this point.

Yields on U.S. 30 - year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter maturities to the outlook for inflation, have jumped almost 40 basis points since last Friday and a $ 15 billion auction of the tenor on Thursday showed waning appetite for the securities.

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

For example, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields closed in on 2.50 percent last week, roughly 50 basis points (0.50 percent) higher than their late April levels.

The neutral rate — which anchors the level of the entire yield curve — is a useful starting point for understanding what's driving low interest rates.

For example, while high yield spreads are considerably lower than they were at the January market bottom, they are approximately 200 basis points (2 percent) wider than they were two years ago, as Bloomberg data shows.

Note that the real interest rates exceed reported for TIPS because I have adjusted yields to reflect the 35 basis point average difference between the Consumer Price Index used in calculating TIPS coupons and the Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator targeted by the Fed.

The point I'm trying to make is that even with the basic assumption of retiring by 65 with $ 1 million dollars and a 4 % withdrawal rate yielding $ 40,000 a year, this might not be reasonable for many people.

The Barron's article pointed this out as well, citing London - based «G+E conomics» head Lena Komileva: «A surplus of investment funds looking for returns in low - yield global markets results in a cap on longer - term yields and a flat yield curve.»

Economic indicators ranging from Saxo Bank's proprietary credit impulse to the yield curve and credit card delinquencies all point in a single direction — the US is heading for recession.

Currency strategists gave weaker exchange rate forecasts for major emerging countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey in the monthly survey, pointing to a sixth straight year of dollar gains against most high - yielding currencies.

The average market impact cost was 29 basis points (39 basis points) per $ 1 million traded for investment - grade (high - yield) corporate bonds.

«For the first time in weeks, the 30 - year mortgage rate moved with Treasury yields and jumped 11 basis points,» Freddie Chief Economist Sean Becketti said in a release.

The yield's maturity rose 10.5 basis points for the week, the largest such gain since Feb. 2.

On 15 October, the yield on 10 - year US Treasury bonds fell almost 37 basis points (Graph 2, left - hand panel), more than the drop on 15 September 2008 when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.

The maturity's yield picked up 8.8 basis points for the week.

For example, the research shows that in the 12 months before a market peak, U.S. 10 - year Treasury yields have on average widened by more than 100 basis points.

December was another solid month for European high - yield debt, with Barclays's benchmark cash index tightening by 40 basis points, ending the year at a new post-crisis low.

Toronto - Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 percent as government bond yields touched their highest levels since 2011 this week.

The add - on for federal direct loans for graduate school students is 3.6 percent, while rates for PLUS loans will be equal to the 10 - year Treasury note yield plus 4.60 percentage points.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

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 benchmark 10 - yr yield, for instance, finished at 2.95 % on Thursday — which is about eight basis points below the more than four - year high it hit last week.

In Europe, the yield for the 10 - year German bond TMBMKDE - 10Y, +1.25 % also known as bunds, fell sharply by 5.2 basis points to 0.527 %, according to Tradeweb data.

For borrowers, leveraged loans offer two significant advantages over high - yield bonds: They are cheaper, by about 100 basis points on average at the moment.

If you are looking at a 10 year corporate bond which is yielding 5 % for example, and at the same time the 10 Year treasury bond is yielding 2 %, then the credit spread is 300 basis points (3 %).

Today, one - month Treasuries yield 1.2 %, and the Federal Reserve is positioned for three more 0.25 - percentage - point increases in rates in 2018.

While this demand for yield trend may explain some of why this principal component moved this year and may even highlight some recent alpha opportunities, the broader point here is more profound.

The very next day, Labor reported that the core producer price index rose 0.4 % for the month and 2.2 % year - on - year, which pushed up the yield on the 10 - year another basis point, to 2.92 %.

Consensus is for no change and I would agree with that for the Aussie dollar has been stable and the 2/10 yield curve is a healthy 135 basis points positive slope.

FRA: Will interest rates tend to rise this year necessarily at different points in the yield curve for yield curves across the major economies?

So I don't think that they're willing at this point in time until they really see wage inflation for whatever reason they're going to hold real yields at neutral, zero.

John Seagrim of CLSA points out that despite having yielded very little for a very long time, Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) have been surprise performers in 2016.

Share price and yield are not what I'm excited about when looking for great businesses, but they of course help determine great entry points.

Toronto — Dominion Bank has lifted its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages by 45 basis points to 5.59 % as government bond yields hit their highest levels since 2011.

With the outlook for growth in the euro area remaining fairly subdued, German bond yields are now below those in the US after having been around 30 basis points higher for much of the past year.

The spread between 10 - year Australian and US bond yields has fluctuated around 150 basis points over the past few months, which is around 50 basis points above its average for the past few years (Graph 54).

Yields have been in a bear market for rather a long time now, though a grudging one, judging by its protracted trajectory, though I'll grant the nearly 100 basis point gains in 10 years since 2.05 percent as recently as September is rather stellar.

The Price Value of a Basis Point (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in yPoint (PVBP) is a measure of the absolute value of the change in price of a bond for a one basis point change in ypoint change in yield.