However, selecting a fund is more than choosing the one with the highest yield.
The yield on the 10-year note rose to 2.102%, its highest yield in more than three months, from 2.030% Monday.
Say no if you're inclined to plunk your entire bond allocation into long-term funds because they have the highest yield.
But for those who want to overweight Latin America and like the highest yield piece of real estate on the map, the pickings are slim.
The PowerShares DB G10 Currency Harvest Fund ( DBV) which takes long positions in the three G10 currencies with the highest yield and short positions in those with the lowest yield.
For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.
These properties offer investors the highest yield, but are also heavily dependent upon Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement that are under budgetary pressure and could be cut as Congress deals with the deficit.
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It selects the 50 companies that have passed the previous criteria--and have the highest dividend yield.
In its most popular form, an investor buys the 10 Dow stocks with the highest dividend yield, holds them for a year, and then starts the process over again.
Their emerging markets dividend fund tracks a proprietary index that starts with a universe of 1, 200 emerging market equities and chooses from those who have the highest dividend yield.
Through its unyielding insistence on the highest quality to yield the best value for its members, Costco has indeed earned the trust of its members.
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The PowerShares DB Oil ETF attempts to minimize the negative effects of contango by buying the contract month with the highest effective roll yield when necessary.
So we would expect Treasuries have the lowest interest rates (or the highest prices, the yield being the inverse of the price), munis higher and corporate bonds the highest.
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The health care sector has the highest overall average dividend yield performance as the sector boasts a current yield of 4.59 percent and year-to-date total return performance of 17.4 percent.
That said, of the three Dividend Aristocrats rated attractive, Walgreens 3.2% current yield is the highest.
If you fear rising interest rates and prefer to keep your bond maturities short, the ratio of muni to Treasury yield is actually highest at the short end (140%-261% for one- to five- year triple-AAA paper).
This yield is at the highest level since QE3 was announced on Sept 13, 2012 and since QE4 was announced on Dec 12, 2012.
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The return on high-yield bonds according to the Merrill Lynch High Yield Bond Index is the highest it has ever been, at 7%, up 2.9% year-to-date.
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In Germany, the strongest economy in Europe, which reported strengthening retail sales this month, the 2-year note yield has risen to its highest level since August 2009.
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And a 5% yield would instantly make Apple the highest yielding of the 25 largest U.S. technology companies.
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In a sign of further volatility, the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield hit 1.0%, the highest in nearly a year.
Its bonds yield around 12%, among Asia's highest, giving it room to cut rates without deterring investors.
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The 10-year futures contract expiring September rose to its highest price yet to trade at 126-13 lowering the yield to 2.75%.
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The Italian ten-year bond yield went above 6.5%, its highest since January.
The ten year GDP-weighted average euro priced government bond yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
The dividend yield just above 3.6% is near its highest level since 2006.
The lower rate is still one of the highest in the world and attracts billions from foreign investors looking for yield.
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The outflow from high-yield bonds during the week of August 3rd was the highest since the brief stockmarket plunge of last October, says Mr Fridson.
This can be seen just by looking at government bond yields: the ten year GDP-weighted average euro yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
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The yield on high-yield bonds has risen to 9.33%, the highest level since 2002 and a sign of growing default risk, even though defaults remain near a historic low.
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