Cargile buys individual bonds for his clients and ladders portfolios for income, sticking to investment grade paper.
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CDOs a useful way to get the higher yields on semi-louche corporate bonds while respecting requirements to hold investment-grade paper.
Below-investment grade paper yields more than 8%, as do A-rated preferred stocks.
Minnesota's most-harvested wood, aspen, has long cells and strong fibres, ideal for high-grade paper of the sort used for magazines and copy machines.
Bank shares are under terrible pressure as Greece has been given a credit rating of CCC, which means no institution limited to investment grade paper can continue to hold it.
Since March 2009, those factors have both been big tailwinds for below-investment grade paper, helping drive both the JNK and HYG 50% higher in price over the past year and a half.
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Low investment-grade paper still gets my money because the yield disparity with 10-year Treasuries, at least 300 basis points, is still attractive if you believe Treasury yields stick near 3% for a year or two.
Even the non-investment grade municipal paper averaged a 4.2% default rate for the past four decades.
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Today's dividend yield is uncompetitive with municipal paper and low-grade corporates and is subject to cutbacks like GE's.
All of them got into trouble with their investment portfolios last year, particularly in commercial real estate, mortgage paper and low-grade corporate bonds.
The cost of safety in financial markets is apparent in the miserly yields afforded on the highest grade of paper out there, issued by the U.S. Treasury.
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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
Arran first made headlines in 2001 when, at five years old, he gained the highest grade possible in the foundation maths paper.
Zynga's take on "Battleship"--a classic, paper-based game that has been played by grade schoolers for decades--includes a handy "airstrike" button.
They can be made at room temperature, unlike a silicon chip, and paper is a lot less pricey than electronics-grade silicon.
In particular the assessor's emails focus on the raising of the grade C boundary on the lower tier English exam paper by 10 marks between January and June.
Companies with low investment grade rating are calling outstanding 7 percent preferreds and replacing them with paper yielding 5.5 percent.
The CEO of a midsize investment-grade utility recently recounted to mehow in times past such backups for his commercial paper were readily, rapidly oversubscribed.
The CEO of a midsize investment-grade utility recently recounted to me how in times past such backups for his commercial paper were readily, rapidly oversubscribed.
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