As the global
yields remain low, many yield - hungry investors have turned to Asia for yield pickup and portfolio diversification.
Fixed - income yields are historically low in Canada, and even with the U.S. standing alone in tightening policy,
yields remain low as quality - seeking capital flows are coming to America.
But if
yields remain low, it would take many more months to produce the billions of vaccine doses WHO is hoping for, according to Kieny's presentation at the SAGE meeting.
Over the past year, the bond yield curve has been positive but flattening (short - term
yields remained lower than long - term yields, but the differential has narrowed).
Not exact matches
Economic factors like consumer confidence, financial obligations, and delinquencies are all improving and the consumer may be more insulated than investors think from a back - up in
yields, given 75 % of their financial obligations are in the form of a mortgage, close to 90 % of all mortgages are 30 - year fixed, and the average mortgage is termed out at the
lowest rate ever... Taking these factors into account, we generally think it pays to
remain sanguine.»
Demand will
remain strong / prices high and
yields low thanks to the need for income and portfolio stability by rapidly aging populations in Japan, Europe, and U.S.
Although rates have popped from recent
lows, it's possible that higher
yields remain range - bound in the months (years?)
Yields on U.S. Treasuries continue to defy expectations,
remaining near multi-decade
lows.
As long as Group of Seven nation bond
yields remain generally
lower than similar - maturity Treasuries, it's just one more reason why
yields on U.S. bonds are likely to stay
lower for even longer.
For one thing, 10 - year
yields elsewhere in the world
remain significantly
lower, which is to say that global investor demand for U.S. notes should hold steady.
However, they
remain close to the
low level prevailing before the Asian crisis, reflecting the generally benign environment for most emerging markets as well as investor appetite for higher
yields than currently prevail in industrial countries.
Barring immediate news of defaults and credit problems, my impression is that it may be difficult to keep
yields at current
lows without some correction, and that Treasuries
remain vulnerable to sporadic inflation concerns.
In addition, as discussed in the chapter on «Domestic Financial Markets», Australian bond
yields remain relatively
low, despite having risen a little recently.
The continuing
low level of government bond
yields has supported the search for
yield that has been evident over the past couple of years, with the spread between
yields on US government debt and
yields on both corporate and emerging market debt
remaining around historical
lows over the past three months (Box B).
Global bond
yields remain relatively
low, reflecting expectations that global interest rates are still likely to
remain low for some time, notwithstanding upward revisions to those expectations in the past couple of months.
Money is now flowing out of high
yield debt which has been priced as if defaults will
remain very
low.
Bonds have been in a bull market for 35 years and
yields, though off their 2012
lows,
remain at historic extremes.
While
yields remain near historic
lows, they are widely expected to go up next year as the Federal Reserve continues raising rates to keep the economy from overheating.
Rate and
yield increases will likely
remain within the context of still generally
low -
yield levels.
Notwithstanding this rise, bond
yields in Japan
remain at historically
low levels, with 10 - year
yields at 1.8 per cent.
Given these forces, along with more structural considerations ---- aging populations, institutional demand for bonds and a dearth of supply ---- I expect that long - term
yields will
remain low even as the Federal Reserve (Fed) starts to raise rates.
Despite the headline news on India's high deficits and
low economic growth, the Indian bonds
remain very popular among investors who hunt for
yields.
• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases,
low payout ratio, and highest
yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each
remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.
Treasury
yields had stayed
low, and the dollar had
remained strong, as long as investors were looking for the safest financial port amid the post-September panic.
BlackRock's base case for 2017 is that U.S. - led global reflation will accelerate, bond
yields will gradually move higher and returns will
remain low, as we write in our 2017 Global Investment Outlook.
Long - term bond
yields have been quite volatile since the previous Statement, and in net terms are up slightly, although they
remain around 1/2 a percentage point
lower than in mid 2002.
FRA: So do you still see a secular
low in bond
yields on the long into the
yield curve
remaining in the future sometime?
If issuance
remains low as expected, the value of triple - A rated muni
yields relative to 10 - year Treasuries should compress by five to ten basis points, from the current 82 - 85 % to 72 - 75 % of the 10 - yr Treasury
yield.
Later in the afternoon, US equities finished a tad
lower (S&P -5 to 2630), while the 10 - year
yield remained steady around 2.95 %.
Though the US
yield curve
remained some way from inversion — which historically is often cited as signaling an impending recession — investors were relatively sanguine about the significance of its flattening, with many arguing that
low long - term
yields were more reflective of central - bank policies and the weak inflationary environment than dimmer economic prospects.
Yield spreads between emerging market sovereign debt and US Treasuries have
remained relatively
low over the past three months in most markets (Graph 12).
In contrast to
yields on nominal bonds,
yields on inflation - linked bonds have for the past six months
remained close to their
lowest recorded levels.
Interest rates
remain low across the
yield curve; credit is freely available and is growing at a solid pace; and the exchange rate is near the
low end of historical experience against most countries.
I know some market participants are taking the view that inflation will
remain weak and further rate hikes will invert the curve, cause a recession, and we will see even
lower yields on long term bonds.
Even so, this rate
remains 1.9 percentage points under the previous cyclical
low early in 1994, reflecting the trend decline in bond
yields over recent years.
If the
yields on these assets with near - guaranteed returns
remain low, then buying in precious metals should
remain fairly steady, if not strong.
Bonds are near historically
low yields, yet stocks
remain priced slightly below their long - term average P / E multiple.
Since the
yield for most CDs
remain lower than inflation, which is at 2.1 %, they are not an attractive option for investors, said Conor Delaney, co-founder and president at Good Life Advisor Systems, a Wyomissing, Penn. company which provides turnkey solutions to independent financial advisers.
Yields available on high - quality securities continue to
remain low but are somewhat offset by increases in average investment balances.
In fixed income,
yields and spreads generally
remain at the
lower end of the historical range, despite interest rates inflecting higher during the quarter.
If you want to worry about the climate, worry about colder weather and
lower crop
yields as the sun
remains unusually quiet.
Confidence among sugar cane growers picked up in the quarter, in the face of a
lower Australian dollar and an expected uptick in
yields and demand, but confidence
remained at
low levels.
Moreover, if natural gas prices
remain low due to higher
yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.
DAG proceeds in a
low chemical
yield of 40 percent by this synthesis method, with the
remaining 60 percent of the possible product being lost.
While these levels
remain unfortunately
low, animal studies provide us with some clues as to how to increase the sulforaphane
yield of these bacteria — feed them more.66 In just four days of a high broccoli diet, those bacteria that thrive on cruciferous vegetables grow in number, leading to a change in composition of the microbial community and an increase in opportunistic bacteria that turn our broccoli into cancer - fighting sulforaphane.
Federal guidance
yielded lower suspension rates in Wisconsin public schools, school safety concerns
remain October 11, 2017 — Milwaukee, WI — The Wisconsin Institute for Law & -LSB-...]
Although interest rates
remain low and the search for
yield continues, after such a strong rally it is worth asking: Is it time to start selling high
yield?
Yields on U.S. Treasuries continue to defy expectations,
remaining near multi-decade
lows.
With outlook for
yield from bonds continuing to
remain low for many years, investors are looking for investments that can provide income in uncertain times.
Yields in the U.S. have
remained lower as political tensions in Ukraine have kept Treasuries as the safety trade.