However, on May 30, 2012, the company paid a special dividend of 71.3 cents per ADS. As a result, the effective dividend yield of Grupo Aeroportuario is currently around 6.44%, which is significantly above its 5-year average dividend yield of 3.6%.
On September 9th, Hankook Tyre, a tyre maker with an investment-grade rating, issued 45 billion won-worth of three-year bonds at some 40 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) above the average three-year bond yield in the secondary market.
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 average 10-year Treasury bond yield as forecasted by 55 economists and regularly published in the Wall Street Journal has been much too high for several years.
These large cap stocks have dividend yields greater than the average yield on 10-year corporate paper, and 5-year credit default swap spreads tighter than that of 5-year U.S. debt.
The ten year GDP-weighted average euro priced government bond yield is now at 5.29%, the highest since 2002.
On the daily chart for the 10-year note yield, the 50-day moving average sits above the 200-day.
However, the average cap rate spread over the 10 year treasury yield has been 360 bps during that period, which compares to 430 bps today.
On average they think the yield on 10-year Treasury notes, a benchmark bond, will rise from 3.8% today to 4% to 4.5% by the end of the year.
Demand has helped push the average yield on a Triple-A 10-year muni to a current 1.9% from 3.5% in January 2011, according to Thomson Reuters Municipal Market Data.
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Here's how it works: When a farmer's yield falls below 90% of his five-year average, Koch pays the farmer for his lost revenue.
The average energy MLP yield is 2.9 points higher than 10-year Treasurys, and are now at the high end of the historical spread.
They trade at an average of 8.9 times the past year's earnings with a dividend yield of 3.6%, versus 13.8 times earnings and a 2.3% yield for the U.S., according to MSCI.
Once bad loans are accounted for, their yields average about 7%, more than double the yield on a 30-year Treasury bond.
The average yield of the U.S. long-term (20-30 year) government bond was 3.46% in September 1929 and declined steadily to 2.01% in December 1940.
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Tech shares have an average yield of 1.39%, with expected growth of 4.07% this year, and 15.39% next year.
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.
These best-in-breed stocks have average earnings yields of 8 percent, which is equivalent to over four times the 10-year Treasury yield, yet people are fleeing stocks for bonds, which have the lowest short-term interest rates since the 1940s.
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