However, with the stampede of retail money into yield products, experts are worried about a bubble forming.
All yield more than double the average money market fund yield.
Why would anyone lend their money at no yield to the government if there is no apparent crisis?
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.
You will have that money and be able to reinvest it at higher yield levels when that money comes due, given this idea that rates are going to be rising.
All five of these companies now yield more than the 0.5% average yield of money market funds.
Yet Mr Prescott's new policy is unlikely to yield enough money for infrastructure projects of that scale.
This eases the cash flow of a strapped business, and the time value of money makes such investment yield a higher (after-tax) rate of return.
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The money is coming from yield-starved Japanese investors, pension funds, and retail investors pulling their cash out of muni funds and pouring it into bank-loan mutual funds.
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Easier access to the Russian local bond market is expected to result in a gradual increase of foreign investor inflows this year thanks to yield hungry money managers.
In 2012, investors have been pouring money into high-yield funds.
Then they give part of that money to poorer families to yield their desired student body mixes.
This is also the point in time where there is no longer an opportunity to make money from rolling down the yield curve.
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Moreover, the average net yield on taxable money market funds has declined to less than 1% now from a peak of more than 6% in 2001.
The IRS only audits about 1 percent of tax returns each year, so the agency tries to pick returns that are most likely to yield additional tax money.
Much of this money creation is going into stock prices, since at near-zero interest rates bonds yield little and bank savings or money-market accounts almost nothing at all.
At one time, you could confidently place any money you might need within one year in a high-yield savings account and be relatively confident that your money could buy at least as much a year in the future than it could buy the day you deposited your funds.
Its reading on the seven-day yield for taxable-money-market funds was 0.03% for the 18th consecutive week.
That is where the real money is: platforms tend to yield lots of jobs in spin-offs and ancillary enterprises.
He says he doesn't chase the highest rates, but will consider moving his money to another bank if the yield falls 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point.
All these crises are alike in that the bankers play the yield curve and push money out to doubtful borrowers in order to get maximum advantage of the spread between the cost of borrowing short term and lending long term.
To make money for themselves they reach for yield by lending to more speculative borrowers whom they can charge more interest to, and they too often lend to high interest paying governments whose junkie bonds they buy for a fat yield as well as their implicit security.
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The high yield bond market gets my money with its 500 basis points spread over 10-year Treasuries.
The investment will have to yield at least as much money as I could get by investing in another business with the same risk level.
The yield for seven-day tax-free and municipal money-market funds slipped to 1% in the latest week from 2%, while the yield for 30-day funds held steady at 0.02%.
If inflation rises, the low yield could cause you to lose money on an inflation-adjusted basis.
High-yield does not mean necessarily putting money with a rinky-dink company stuck in Backwater, America.
Anyone trying to set aside money for retirement is not going to get yield in U.S. Treasurys.
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