Sentences with phrase «yields than the benchmark»

The bias is meant to make it less sensitive to a general increase in yields than the benchmark index it follows.

Not exact matches

The benchmark 10 - year yield hit a high of 2.626 % on March 13, briefly ticking above the 2.60 % threshold that the bond - market veteran Bill Gross had said was «much more important than Dow 20,000.»

(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 fund typically favors longer maturities than our benchmark and tends to lean toward riskier paper, both of which increase yield.

That view gained momentum in late February when the benchmark yield climbed past 2.9 % — more than twice its historic lows in July 2016 — following a Congressional question - and - answer session with the new Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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.

While not exactly hitting the Federal Reserve's revered 2.0 % annual inflation target, it was apparently close enough to create more jitters in the bond market, with the yield on the U.S. Treasury's benchmark 10 - year note immediately climbing seven basis points to 2.91 %, its highest level in more than four years.

We looked at the benchmark weights pre - and post-downgrades — for example, autos went from less than 3 % to nearly 7 %, there was not much of a high - yield financials universe and energy endured some significant downgrades to post some meaningful growth.

For more than a week, the US dollar has risen sharply as US government bond yields have surged — with the benchmark 10 - Year Treasury yield briefly...

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Adding more is a distinct possibility, because its yield currently sits at 3.2 % — more than the 3.0 % benchmark.

The rate itself may not be as high as you would like to have, but, as you can see, it's a very decent rate comparing to other banks, especially when the overall yields of savings accounts are so low, mostly in the lower 1 % range, thanks to the Fed's policy that has kept its benchmark lending rate close to zero for more than two years.

For instance, since the early 1980s, the yield on the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note has fallen from roughly 16 % to 2 % and the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index has climbed from less than eight times earnings to 25 times earnings.

The search for yield in a world where the benchmark 10 - year U.S. Treasury note offers less than 2 % is a tough task.

Bull markets rarely end when the earnings yield on stocks — now around 6 % — is higher than benchmark bond yields.

Underperformance of the HYLV index from carry and spreads in a spread - tightening environment is not surprising, given its lower yield profile and more defensive positioning of credit risk than the benchmark.

Value - rotation strategies (for example, ranking countries by dividend yield) have historically offered up higher returns than the broad benchmarks.

The negative correlation of -0.66 between these two variables indicates that when the broad high yield universe benefited from spread tightening, the HYLV index underperformed the benchmark from spread changes, and that spread widening would have less downward impact on the HYLV index than the benchmark.

They also can boost yields by holding more corporate bonds than government - bond - heavy benchmarks like the FTSE Canada TMX Universe Index.

Although benchmark EM credit spreads are compressing to 12 month lows, favorable global liquidity conditions suggest still a slow grind tighter with few options other than the high yielding single B credits like Argentina.

Profit of companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, the benchmark for American equity, is growing faster than shares, and represents a yield of 6.53 percent compared with 4.65 percent for 10 - year U.S. Treasury notes.

Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high - yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).

Finally, the smartphone runs Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box and seems to be capable of yielding around 270,680 points in the AnTuTu benchmarking tool, which is more than 100,000 points above the average score of the Razer Phone.

In addition, yields on real estate investments are substantially higher than yields on the benchmark government bonds.