"Given that global and U.S. grain inventories remain very tight, grain prices will continue to reflect growing conditions and yield potential for both U.S. and global crop production, " Agrium said, citing a June report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which anticipates global grain and oilseed stockpiles to scrape 35-year lows through 2009.
But looking at some of the drivers of recent growth may yield clues on potential future growth.
Many bond fund holders only think about the yield not the potential for capital loss in bonds funds.
Like buying an apartment building before rents rise and the purchase price goes up, opportunity exists for income oriented investors who need current yield and appreciation potential.
Chasing current yield has the potential to hurt you in the long term, when the tide turns and rates rise or when you discover that your high-yielding investments carried way more risk than you recognized.
Alarm bells started to ring at the firm's headquarters when a Cadbury-financed study by the University of Sussex and the University of Accra found that the average production of a cocoa farmer had dropped to 40% of potential yield, and that the children of cocoa farmers did not want to work in the family business any more.
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No other channel has the potential to yield such a rich haul of information.
In other words, a flat yield curve has the potential to chase investors from equities into bonds.
Findlater hopes the renovations will boost the property's potential rental yield and, in three to five years, its resale price.
That yield spread is dwarfed by the potential gain (or loss) from exchange-rate shifts.
Every capitalist investment has the potential for a dual yield: a financial profit and an epistemological profit.
It has significant growth potential, an attractive yield, and is well positioned in a particularly hot sector.
Additional milestone payments and a potential future public offering could yield triple that take.
Smith believes it could rise in rice to yield 3.25%, also a potential 20% gain.
TesoroLogistics is well positioned on the growth curve with a very strong year over year profit increase forecasted, as well as a healthy yield and expected earnings-accretive contribution from potential drop-down opportunities.
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Further with a dividend yield of 3.5% and excellent growth potential, I believe that this stock will be a nice addition to any portfolio.
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This leading bank offers a great combination of yield (more than 4%) and reasonable appreciation potential.
Wall Street banks, many of them struggling amid a crimp in trading profits, have been jostling for a leading role in the deal, which could yield them tens of millions of dollars in banker fees, potential new business and bragging rights.
To be sure, investors cannot focus on yield alone, especially when undervalued stocks offer plenty of capital appreciation potential to go along with generous dividend income streams.
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Given this laundry list of potential catastrophes, one might reasonably ask whether a 6% yield is really sufficient.
In addition to further potential capital gains at its current price the stock is paying a nice dividend yield of 5.4%.
The yield, at 2.5%, is not spectacular, but gurus bought into OFC more for its potential as a takeover target.
That's a current yield on his discounted investment of 5.03%, without counting the 20 cents to 30 cents of potential gain.
As for Enerplus, it may never reach a 14% yield, simply because the trust is so deep in proven reserve life (about 10 years) and in undeveloped potential reserves, including oils sands, which carry a stock-market-type premium these days.
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