By showing agreement with the president when warranted, or when inexpensive, Romney neutralized issues that would yield little advantage to him.
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Does anyone really believe a 10-year Treasury should yield little more than 1.5% or a 30-year government bond just under 3%?
These growing payouts have a special appeal in the current environment, where the safest fixed income securities yield little and inflation seems probable in the future.
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.
Over that, they attach a half-inch layer of foam to give the structure some yield for little climbers.
While they yield a little less than a state general obligation bond, they are perceived as having less volatility.
Without hiring the right kinds of consultants and working with them in the right ways, the investment is likely to yield very little.
They yield very little interest for people on a fixed income.
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But despite their competitive streaks, there is one thing that the two men agree on: The gold rush to patent individual gene sequences will probably yield very little in the way of profits.
Some recent asset-backed securities have been priced to yield as little as 0.5%, but even that is enough of a premium to two-year Treasurys yielding 0.2% for company treasurers as they weigh acquisitions and other longer-term options for deploying cash.
These funds offer a little bit higher yield, and a little lower duration so they offer a little more protection in case interest rates were to rise.
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They were already taking on way too much risk for a little extra yield.
And although the other departments will be expected to scrimp, they spend too little to yield much.
So it gives you a little bit more yield without taking on too much risk.
Having too many goals and too little focus will yield far fewer results.
In the corporate-bond market, where upside is far less, downside almost as nasty and scepticism should be the order of the day, no yield is too low, it seems, even though little more than 12 months have passed since no yield was too high.
Mutual funds may not show a high dividend yield, and there may be little to glean from it.
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Note, however, that the High Yield Master II is also a little more than 100 bp narrower than its historical average versus Triple-B corporates.
But having optimal liquidity with little risk even with no yield is looking more and more like a bargain.
"I'd rather trade off a little bit of current dividend yield for sustainable dividend growth, " says Chuck Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor.
But if that happens, it would mean higher yield for investors willing to take on a little more risk in India.
Finally, realize that even in the current low interest rate environment, short-term, low-yield bonds offer the advantage of liquidity and little downside risk, allowing them to potentially play an important role in your portfolio.
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As little as ten minutes of play can yield enough data to predict performance, says Mr Halfteck.
Many state funds are allowed to assume an investment return of 8% a year, which is barmy when government bonds yield less than 2% and dividends only a little more.
The balance of the displaced will continue to earn zero dollars, rather than however little the value of their labor might yield, given their willingness to perform it for that price.
As with stocks, high-yield bonds benefit from a strengthening economy and a little bit of inflation, which make it much less likely that leveraged corporations will default on their bond issues.
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Currently, their dividend yields average a little under 4%, compared with the yield of 1.6% or so on Japanese government bonds.
His decision to ban all nuclear tests would preclude the U.S. from conducting even extremely low-yield tests (for example, those that produce as little of a blast as the equivalent of four pounds of high explosive) as part of the nuclear stockpile stewardship program.
That will give holders of those bonds a nice little capital gain to go along with the 9% yield they were already getting.
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