The reason most wise investors hold portfolios of munis of average duration 3-5 years.
The average duration of unemployment rose to 36.9 weeks, up from 35.3 weeks in January.
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The average duration on treasury debt runs around 5 years and this is too low.
The average duration of job post for the Marussia F1 Team averages only 42 days.
Since 1946, bear markets had an average duration of 16 months with an average cumulative loss of 32%.
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Yet the unemployment rate hovers near eight percent and the average duration of unemployment is at record high levels.
This is 39% longer than the 11-month average duration reported by the NBER.
The average duration in the index is 26 years, which means it is super sensitive to interest rate changes.
That would typically be a bond fund with an average duration of more than four years or a stock fund.
Osterweis Strategic Income has more credit risk but lower interest-rate risk (due to shorter average duration) than some intermediate-term bond funds.
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Since World War II, 65 years ago, the average duration of recessions has been 10 months, with the longest being 16 months.
The average duration for living in a single-family home is six years and for a rental apartment, two and a half years.
At the same time Vanguard's New York Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund, with an average duration of 6.8 years, offered a yield to maturity of 3.8%.
Of those who were living together when the study began, the average duration of their unions at that point was more than eight years.
Their average duration as judged by the employment-population ratio has been 41.7 months, which is 268% longer than the 11.3-month average reported by the NBER.
But the average duration of unemployment is a little more than a year for this group of workers vs. 36.1 weeks for those under 55.
This in turn means that the average duration of mortgages lengthens.
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As insurers have squeezed hospitals, the average duration of hospital stays has indeed fallen but that has been more than offset by a rise in prices (see chart 2).
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Nearly half of the country's unemployed workers have been off the job for 27 weeks or more, and the average duration of unemployment has risen to over 35 weeks (see chart).
Indeed, according to a new analysis by the AARP of Department of Labor Statistics, average duration of unemployment for older laid-off job seekers rose to 44.9 weeks in October.
It will buy Japanese government bonds with maturities of up to 40 years, seeking to push the average duration of Bank of Japan (BoJ) bond holdings to seven years, from the current three years.
Meanwhile, the number of people unemployed for six months or longer went up by 89, 000 people this month, to 4.8 million, and the average duration of unemployment also rose, to 36.9 weeks from 35.3 weeks.
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Another sign of slackness in the labor market is that the average duration of unemployment continued to creep higher from 33.9 weeks in November to 34.2 weeks and the number of people unemployed for 27 weeks or longer edged up 1.8% to 6.44 million souls.
Of the non-retail funding, less than 20% has a shorter term than the average three-year duration of a mortgage on our balance sheet.
Mr. Barrickman said his fund has been doing well because of bigger exposure to interest rate risks, as measured by his portfolio's average 6.2-year duration a key measure of how bonds' prices fluctuate in relation to a given yield change.
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Product cycles are almost as limited in duration as the tenure of the average large-company CEO (a few years at most), after which all the investment and technology is written off.
Participants underestimated the number of calls they had made by an average of about 20%, and overestimated call duration by 40%.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has experienced around 20 bear markets, averaging a duration of one and a half years from top to bottom, says James Stack, president of InvesTech Research, a US-based market tracking firm.
Average hours worked are creeping back towards their historical averages, while the duration of unemployment has fallen sharply.
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