Now Wall Street is laying the table a third time for yield-starved investors.
During the same time frame high-yield bonds slumped 26% and bank loans fell 24%, while 5-year Treasuries gained 16%, according to our research (municipal bonds, another high-quality fixed income asset class, returned 9% over the same time span, as measured by the BarCap 5-year Municipal Bond Index).
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The yield on the two-year note fell to an all-time low while the 10-year note yield found its way back to April 2009 levels.
But the tragedy is not that dishonest borrowers and brokers signed off on liar-loans, greedy bankers packaged time bombs, yield hungry speculators bet on AAA-rated trash or that pandering politicians let taxpayers guarantee mortgages in the first place.
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At that time the implied three-month yield stood at 2.05% and represents a retrospective step to January when the futures contract last traded at that price.
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When gold was at its real all-time high in 1980, the ten-year Treasury-bond yield was 10.8%.
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The all time low yield for the 30-Year bond is 2.349% set on May 26, 2012 and the recent high yield is 3.118% set on September 17, 2012.
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The yield on the 30-Year bond declined to 2.955% from 3.091% last week, but the all time low yield for the 30-Year bond is 2.349% set on May 26, 2012.
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The all time low yield for the 30-Year bond is 2.349% set on May 26, 2012 and the recent high yield was 3.118% set on September 17 after QE3 was announced.
Also, the dividend yield on Continental European companies is at an all-time high with 47% of the market capitalization of Europe offering a dividend yield above the respective government bond yield, Credit Suisse says.
Better yet, a three-minute quick charge from a dead battery will yield up to an hour of run-time in a pinch.
The people familiar with the situation said that LCD makers are finding the manufacturing process challenging and time-consuming as they scramble to achieve high yield rates.
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But on May 15th the short-term yield curve turned positive for the first time in 16 months, usually an indicator that the market thinks enough easing has taken place.
That's a shame for investors, because around 90% of the market's long-term return can be linked directly to dividends--the basic yield and then the growth over time of that coupon.
For example, at the end of 2010, money market rates were at 0.23 percent, which at the time fell between the 0.20 percent yield on six-month and 0.30 percent yield on one-year Treasuries.
Over the same time, the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield jumped more than 150 basis points to nearly 8%, and in turn caused many bond investors to suffer losses of 20% or more in their portfolios.
Going by its dividend-yield, Wall Street has looked pricey for some time, offering a meagre income of just 2%.
"Clients expect yield at a shorter time frame, and sometimes double-digit returns, " said Jeffrey Tang, a director at consultants Towers Watson.
As it turns out, high yield corporate bond yields have nearly reached all-time lows, meaning that the prices of such bonds are nearing all-time highs.
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 moratorium was one of a series of unilateral disarmament actions taken at that time, which included the 1993-94 legislation prohibiting design of low-yield nuclear weapons and the 1995-96 agreement on a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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That means it exceeded the yield on the ten-year Treasury note for the first time since 1958.
On Tuesday, Germany - the biggest economy in Europe - saw its bond yield drop below the inflation rate for first time since reunification.
Depending on how busy it is, a dollar will buy New York customers between 20 minutes and 4 hours of surf time, the price determined by software modeled after the airline's yield-management system.
Never mind that the Bloomberg REIT index yields a mere 4%, a discount of 0.6 percentage points to the ten-year Treasury note--and a most expressive contrast to the REIT's 8.1% yield in March 2000, which at the time was a two-point premium to the ten-year note.
The yield on dividend-paying equities is at or near all-time highs, relative to Treasuries, and I think represents a pretty good value right now in the marketplace.
At that time the Dow was barely over 1, 000, the yield on a 10-year U.S. Treasury note was around 15%, and the U.S. was just arriving at its Reagan-era peak.
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Investors fleeing from risk drove the dollar up and pushed the yield on one-month Treasury bills into negative territory for the first time in ten months.
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