Finally, the percentage spread between actual profits and normalized profits is not in a spike comparable with 2006.
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Hedge funds thought they'd been smart by locking in a three-to-four-percentage-point spread by selling protection on those tranches and buying it on less risky ones.
The Fed's heavy buying last year drove yields on mortgage bonds to within 0.65 percentage point of comparable Treasury bonds, much lower than the traditional spread of 1.15 percentage points.
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Unless the Fed has changed its mind about one percentage point being the desired spread in normal times, the discount rate will be raised again relative to the Federal Funds rate.
The spread between the percentage of companies that have raised guidance for 2012 versus the percentage that have lowered guidance has turned negative for the first earnings season since the end of the financial crisis, according to Bespoke Investment Group.
On that front, junk is still some 4.5 percentage points above Uncle Sam's paper a rich premium and well above the crazily tight spread of 2.4 percentage points seen just before the financial crisis.
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We focus on the percentage of issues in the index currently quoted at distressed levels. (We define distressed as a spread over Treasuries of 10 percentage points or more.) Distressed companies historically have defaulted at a rate of nearly 25% per year, while the rate for non-distressed companies is only 1%.
FridsonVision, a research firm, publishes a default-rate predictor based on the percentage of bonds trading with a spread of at least 1, 000 basis points.
The spread ranged from 12 percentage points a year between the least and most actively traded microcaps to 2.8 points between the least and most popular megacaps.
He's pursuing returns he thinks will exceed U.S. markets by at least 15 percentage points but also hoping to spread the message that the free flow of private equity and venture capital to bright entrepreneurial firms in Africa can be a superior alternative to the traditional development funds funneled through the likes of the World Bank.
In fact the spread of junk over treasuries is now close to 4.9 percentage points, far less than the long-term average spread of 6 points.
The premium over the equivalent German debt also reached a record spread of 3.74 percentage points.
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In the 1990s, this spread was generally around two percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is 18.4 percentage points.
The spread between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, widened to -14 percentage points.
The 10-year Treasury note keys off this 3% yield with a spread of as much as two percentage points.
The last time we saw a wider spread was on July 8, 2010, when the spread was -36.1 percentage points (bullish sentiment was 20.9% and bearish sentiment was 57.1%.) This occurred just as the market was setting a bottom during the summer months.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is at 14.6 percentage points.
The Greek-German spread went from around 9.50 percentage points to a low of 4.42 within a week.
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When Mr Monti took office as head of a technocratic government in November 2011, the spread had stood at 5.74 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, narrowed to -2.6 percentage points.
Item No. 2 is the bid-ask spread, expressed as a per-year percentage expense.
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The spread between German bond yields fell from roughly 15 percentage points to a little over 11 percentage points.
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Still, with tenyear Treasurys yielding less than 3%, the spread between MLPs and Treasurys is 3.4 percentage points, or 340 basis points, above the 15-year average of 310 basis points.
Other measures also suggest sentiment is running hot, including the spread between bullish and bearish sentiment (37.6 percentage points) and the standard deviation (bullish sentiment is more than one standard deviation above the historical mean).
The new increase of 2.5 percentage points on Mr. Martin's line will effectively double the spread over the prime rate to 5%, yielding an 8.25% interest rate.
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The spread on the securities has risen to around 2.2 percentage points over government bonds, even wider than it was during March's turmoil (after adjusting for today's lower volatility).
The yield on Portuguese 10-year notes jumped to a new crisis high of 6.33%, with the spread over German 10-year notes rising by 3.5 percentage points.
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