The 10-year Italian yield fell 0.09 percentage point to 5.50%, while the 10-year Spanish yield dropped 0.11 percentage point to 5.83%.
The 20-year bond yield has moved 0.39 percentage point and the 30-year yield has moved 0.48 percentage point since the beginning of February.
Italy's 10-year government bond yield soared 0.52 percentage point to 4.88%, while the corresponding yield on Spain's bond also jumped, rising 0.24 percentage point to 5.34%.
The yield on 10-year Italian government bonds rose 0.15 percentage point to 5.07%, while Spain's 10-year yield climbed 0.1 percentage point to 5.46%.
They now yield about four percentage points or so over Treasuries.
Back in 2002, emerging-market bonds offered a yield a full ten percentage points higher than American Treasury bonds.
At issue, it was priced to yield 3.3 percentage points above U.S. Treasuries, when South Korean issues were trading around 2.4 percentage points above.
Tour Eiffel has a 5.7% earnings yield, a full percentage point greater than the French ten-year, whereas U.S. REITs average just a half-point over the ten-year T note.
European high-yield bonds pay 10 percentage points more than government issues, even though default rates are currently very low: in the year to September, only 1.9% of issues defaulted.
Even if you do not count the large quantity of bonds issued by telecoms companies that are now bust or nearly so, the average junk issue trades at a yield of some ten percentage points above Treasury bonds.
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Microsoft sold 10-year debt with a yield of 0.70 percentage point more than 10-year Treasurys.
All he wanted is a few more percentage points of yield on his income portfolio.
However, on Monday, Italy's 10-year bond yield jumped 0.3 percentage points to 4.8%.
But as of now, the Italian ten year yield is around half a percentage point higher than it was a month ago.
Shaving a few more tenths of a percentage point would yield several million in savings and could have a positive impact on the bottom line.
Its 7.25s of February 2011 are trading at 78 cents on the dollar, for an 11.3% yield to maturity, 6 percentage points better than Treasurys.
Investors who grasp for that last percentage point of yield and buy long-term bonds are making a gigantic bet that rates will fall even further or at least hold even.
The 10-year Japanese yield was down 0.04 percentage point at 0.845% in late Tokyo trading.
But at least its foreign debt pays about three-and-a-half percentage points more in yield than Romania's.
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That's almost seven percentage points above the yield on ten-year Treasurys.
Investment-grade corporate bonds, which carry only a sliver of default risk, now yield an average 1.8 percentage points more than Treasurys, up from 1.3 points in early 2000.
If over the next year the yield on long Treasurys climbs four percentage points from where it is now, your total return on such paper will be -40%.
The nominal yield on a bond is simply the percentage of interest to be paid on the bond periodically.
The range for the companies Stewart likes is 4.5 to 7.5 percentage points over the expected Treasury yield.
The Spanish yield is is about a third of a percentage point higher.
Cyprus was hardest hit, with its seven-year bond yield jumping by more than 1.5 percentage points to just over 10%.
There has even been a surprisingly large number of bonds issued with interest rates of ten percentage points or more above the yield on Treasury bills usually an indicator that a company is in grave difficulties and might default.
The 10-year Treasury note keys off this 3% yield with a spread of as much as two percentage points.
He says he doesn't chase the highest rates, but will consider moving his money to another bank if the yield falls 0.1 to 0.2 percentage point.
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