If you hold these shares in a taxable account, continue to hold and buy more if the price reaches the 14% yield level.
Our 10-year Treasuries just pushed past the 3 percent yield level.
"There are few other opportunities for that level of yield in a quarterly dividend where the underlying assets are secured, and the duration is three months, " says Neuberger Berman fund manager, Joseph Lynch.
Of note, the two-year Treasury note yield dipped to its lowest level since May 2004.
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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According to BAC's unique historical dividend signature, the stock has been shown to be undervalued any time the dividend yield hits or exceeds this level.
Mr Draghi said flatly that the ECB had "never" discussed capping the cost of borrowing - the sovereign bond yield - at a certain level, in Italy and anywhere else.
In either case, with that level of volatility, yield chasers are forewarned what reaching for a 4.8% payout today could entail if the economic picture darkens.
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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Taking this distortion to yet another level, compared to high yield bonds, blue-chip, high quality stocks look incredibly cheap!
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When Sumner Redstone sold a big block of his Viacom holdings, the preferred stock dropped overnight to a 12.5% yield before recovering to the 10% level.
Gold (NYSE:GLD) dipped below its 8-day moving average for a day last week but quickly climbed back above it, and Silver (NYSE:SLV) also remains above its 8-day MA. The precious metals are in a tight upper level consolidation and will likely yield a trade if they break above or below key resistance or support.
In any case, if Treasury rates rise substantially from their present level, history strongly suggests that high yield bonds will be comparatively well cushioned.
But when the central bank overrules all of that and forces rates above or below their natural level, the link between effort and yield is severed.
German government bonds, judged to be the safest in the euro area, jumped in early trading, with the yield on 10-year Bunds hitting its lowest level of the year, at 1.37%, though it later rose to 1.4%.
The 10-year note's yield fell to 3.4%, the lowest level of the year.
The 10-year yield earlier touched 1.703%, the lowest level since Oct. 16.
PRD-19 should also make clear that the U.S. will be required to conduct a small number of underground tests with most falling at or below the 10-kiloton level but with the right to conduct higher yield tests should the need arise.
The dividend yield just above 3.6% is near its highest level since 2006.
In light of these cross-currents, Treasury yields plunged further, with the yield on the ten-year Treasury dropping to its lowest level since late 2008.
Additional liquidity helped Spain auction its government bonds on Thursday, and the yield on two-year Italian bonds fell to its lowest level since October 2010.
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%.
While this can make for a high dividend yield, it also introduces some volatility and uncertainty into the level of payments from year to year huge dividend payouts are common when a REIT turns large profits, versus smaller payouts or even periods of no dividends in times of losses.
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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.
Ahead of the gathering, the yield on Spain's 10-year bonds surpassed the 7% level that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to accept bailouts.
The implicit interest rate on 10-year loans to Italy (the yield on 10-year bonds) rose again above the 7% level which is regarded as punitively unaffordable.
The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note jumped from its lowest level of the year, as traders moved money out of the safety of government bonds.
The yield on mutual funds that invest in Treasuries is less than half its level of a decade ago, according to Lipper, another research outfit (see chart).
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