However, in-cell touch is expected to take off in 2012 as yield rates improve.
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So while the core technology promises long-term benefits, yield rates could be a problem in the shorter terms, Alexander says.
In the months before the new iPad was announced, yield rates for Apple's Retina display were a huge question mark.
Now that yield rates are improving, Apple has managed to catch up to its original expectations and has shipped more than eight million units.
"There's a learning curve for any new products, so our yield rates are increasing, " said Mr. Lin, although he declined to comment on any Apple products.
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The people familiar with the situation said that LCD makers are finding the manufacturing process challenging and time-consuming as they scramble to achieve high yield rates.
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However, we understand that yield rates at TSM have thus far been unacceptably low for commercial viability, and that the deadline for inclusion into the next iPhone has passed.
Pegatron began making iPad Minis last year, but some people familiar with the situation said low yield rates meant volume was lower than originally planned and Foxconn ended up taking on the bulk of the production.
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There has been no timetable yet for the volume production of iPhone 5 as Apple is currently still working with related suppliers including those involved in cover glass, glass cutting, lamination and touch sensors to improve yield rates, the sources commented.
Gallardo told the investors that she would purchase condominiums and that these properties would quickly yield high rates of return: a 100 percent in only 30 days.
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When economic activity improves, the U.S. Treasury yield and mortgage rates would rise.
But the Federal Reserve had already started raising short-term interest rates, flattening the yield curve, the difference between short and long rates. (Since banks borrow short and lend long, their margins are higher when the curve is steep.) When this began eating into lenders' profits, they reacted by pushing subprime rates back up.
At the same time that safe assets fall in yield, the interest rates on riskier bonds will rise sharply.
How higher tax rates can yield lower collections is a good question.
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.
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Recent cuts in short-term interest rates should help banks, by steepening the yield curve (the difference between long and short rates) and thus boosting the spread they can earn.
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Right now, we have a normal yield curve, with interest rates rising with length of maturity.
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The process of steering public finances toward a sustainable path long term interest rates (the yield on gilts) would have been delayed .
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They are typically short-term investments that banks market as a high-yield alternative to bank deposit rates, which are kept low by the government.
And rising rates means higher yield in a zero-yield universe.
And instead or rising, interest rates and the yield on bonds began to decline, and Treasury bonds launched into an impressive six-month rally in which 30-year treasury bonds gained 20%.
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Tenet Healthcare and Denbury Resources this week became the latest high-yield issuers to capture coupon rates that were below the 5% threshold, and in doing so they logged some new records.
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Clearly companies like Comcast and GE, are mindful of that reality in an environment where investors look to the equity market for yield due to the paltry rates on many fixed-income instruments like U.S. Treasuries.
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The difference between short- and long-term rates, otherwise known as the yield curve, is close to historic highs, even though long-term rates have fallen remorselessly over recent years.
Free cash flow growth rates combined with shareholder yield measures will dominate equity returns going forward.
Normally, tightening FRB policy emphasis pushes up interest rates all along the yield curve, bearish for equities.
Bond prices also rose on the prospect of lower rates, with the yield on the ten-year Treasury dipping to 4.99% from 5.04%.
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