And the pair, like many Americans, have reached for yield in a junk bond fund.
And no one can buy that kind of yield in the U.S. market today.
Borrowing costs continue to plunge as investors hunt for yield in a low-rate environment.
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You can buy these bonds at a discount and get nearly 8% yield in dollar terms.
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Italy was also forced to pay a higher yield in a sale of two-year debt.
How much more might a future Israeli government yield in return for a comprehensive peace?
These will receive a handsome yield in return for underwriting the risk of cancellation.
To be clear, the dividend yield in question, from Alliance Resource Partners ( ARLP), is quite variable.
Anyone trying to set aside money for retirement is not going to get yield in U.S. Treasurys.
Conversely, during risk-on episodes, investors pull out of Treasuries and reach for yield in more risky type of investments.
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And its treasury bonds yield in excess of 10% after adjusting for inflation.
Cigarette stocks have become downright trendy of late as investors have taken to chasing yield in a low-interest-rate world.
The yield on the 10-year note rose to 2.102%, its highest yield in more than three months, from 2.030% Monday.
Town officials said they believe developing the island would cost more in service expenses that it would yield in tax revenues.
The bad reason is that it offers a sniff of yield in a world where returns are hard to come by.
An important buyer of Argentinian debt in recent times has been Hugo Chavez who demanded a very high yield in return.
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In my Greenblatt model, I calculate return on capital and earnings yield in the same ways that Greenblatt lays out in his book.
The trap waiting to be sprung on investors who get too aggressive chasing yield in the corporate sector is a hiccup in the economy.
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The National Farmers' Union said 2012 has been one of the hardest for farmers, with arable farmers reporting their poorest wheat yield in 30 years.
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on legislation later this month to diminish the amount of damages a patent lawsuit could yield in the future.
The right to family life is not absolute (unlike the right not to be tortured) but may yield in the public interest, including safety and economic well-being.
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In consequence pension funds and banks will no longer be able to give up some of their bond yield in return for insuring the capital against government default.
"For a time, capital markets seemed to have an appetite for almost any kind of risk, so long as it received sufficiently large yield in exchange, " they write.
And rising rates means higher yield in a zero-yield universe.
Financing is cheap on loans used to finance leverage buyouts: The average yield in the junk-bond market is at its lowest level since October 2007, falling to 8.7%.
Since longer-maturity bonds offers higher yield in the current market, this kind of debt is mostly purchased by mutual funds, which want to offer a high-yield product to investors.
However, if rates do indeed hold near record-low levels, investors in search of yield in the fixed-income market might benefit from taking a look at nontraditional credits as Holtz suggests.
You get a fatter yield in small cap Gold Resources (GORO), but the better idea may be to stick with a well-known name where the top three officers are not related.
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