bond yield

In effect, pensions are a debt like any other, and should be discounted with a bond yield.

If the Asian central banks mop up the hot money and buy US treasuries with it, it depresses the US bond yield and boosts the US economy.

Since the American government is unlikely to default, the bond yield sets the risk-free rate against which other assets are measured.

That makes it seem logical to use a risk-free rate, like the Treasury bond yield, to discount the liabilities.

So it proved. The gaps between the ten-year bond yield of Germany and those of Greece, Portugal and Ireland jumped sharply this week.

The difference between the swap interest rate and the underlying benchmark government bond yield at any given maturity.

Peripheral euro zone government bond yield spreads against German benchmarks further widened on Friday, reflecting these concerns.

Companies only pay out a fraction of their earnings as dividends, so the earnings yield was then much higher than the government-bond yield.

It has held back currency appreciation and steepened the bond yield curve, supporting banks.

The current US 10-year bond yield is hovering in a 3. 5% to 4% range, but is likely to back up to over 5% when the economy finally recovers.

Comparing with the yield cure of the western developed countries, the level and shape of the T-bond yield of China is normal.

When equity prices fall their yield rises. The theory holds that if earnings yield is higher than bond yield then equities are cheap.

The growing worries over sovereign debt have been reflected in bond yield spreads.

After all, the Treasury-bond yield is the risk-free rate, off which other assets are priced.

The ten-year Treasury bond yield rose in a week from 3. 83% to 4. 15%.

low bond yield and weak equity market to pose challenges for investment yield ahead.

Portugal is still on the chopping block as its bonds remain at euro-era highs, the 10-year government bond yield is above 7. 5 per cent.

a lower bond yield means a lower discount rate and thus a higher present value for shares.

Ultimately, low Fed funds rate will anchor the longer term bond yield.

Therefore, bond price drop on rising yield, as bond price is inversely related to bond yield.

Yet investors seem sanguine: Greece's ten-year bond yield is comfortably below 5%.

The price of saving (the bond yield) has thus fallen.

Over the same period, the spread on the 10-year bond yield has risen by roughly 125 basis points.

Who get's to buy $5 billion in Goldman Sach's preferreds with a junk bond yield?

Italy's 10-year bond yield rose from less than 5 per cent to more than 7 per cent during 2011.

Risk aversion has sent the 10-year Treasury bond yield below 3%.

Next year, interest rates will be rising, and so will bond yield and equity returns.

That is why the government-bond yield is the appropriate measure for discounting public liabilities, as Messrs Rauh and Novy-Marx assert.

By September 2011 its ten-year bond yield had slipped below 1%.

In America the ten-year Treasury-bond yield fell even as Congress flirted with default.

There are two kinds of methods for deduction of zero coupon bond yield curve: direct method and indirect method.

The dividend yield for the DAX is 4. 4%, more than twice the government-bond yield.

The two-year government bond yield advanced 3 basis points to 4. 31 percent.

The 30-year Treasury-bond yield has risen sharply from a low of 3. 5% in August.

Mr. Goncalves cites the 10-year bond yield, for example, which has stopped falling despite accumulating evidence that the Fed will act.

The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield is down 10 basis points to 1. 20 per cent.

The 10-year bond yield hit 3. 45 per cent, a six-month high, while the dollar hit a five-month low.

The benchmark 10-year bond yield was flat at 1. 430 percent, well above a 28-month low of 1. 310 percent hit last week.

For example, you don'twant to compare a 2% stock yield to a 6% bond yield and conclude the stock isunderperforming.

Last week the benchmark 10-year bond yield dipped below 1 per cent for the third time in the past 12 months.

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European stocks offer a 2011 dividend yield of 3. 8% versus a bond yield of 3. 4%, Morgan Stanley notes;