In a sign of yet more concern, Spain's bond yield ended Monday's session higher than it was before the weekend's events, with the yield on Spain's 10-year note -- effectively the country's borrowing costs -- posting its biggest one-day jump in a year.
When interest rates are low, as now, high-yield's superior returns tend to win the argument.
Hours before Mr Berlusconi's address, the yield on Italy's benchmark ten-year treasury bonds hit 6.25%, before slipping back fractionally.
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%.
They trade at an average of 8.9 times the past year's earnings with a dividend yield of 3.6%, versus 13.8 times earnings and a 2.3% yield for the U.S., according to MSCI.
If you'd like a current yield that's shenanigan free, turn to publicly traded REITs like Mack-Cali Realty.
The 10-year note's yield fell to 3.4%, the lowest level of the year.
The 10-year note was yielding 3.58%, up from 3.46% Monday, and the two-year's yield was at 1.76%, up from 1.47%.
The benchmark 10-year note's yield, which moves inversely to its price, posted the biggest three-day increase in nearly three months to 1.651%.
While Waste Management's yield is high, analyst Scott Levine at J.
Here's how it works: When a farmer's yield falls below 90% of his five-year average, Koch pays the farmer for his lost revenue.
The yield on the two-year Treasury note rose to 0.91%, from 0.90% Tuesday, while the three-month bill's yield slipped to 0.01% from 0.02% Tuesday.
Just days before the decision date, the Fed cut short-term rates, increasing both the attractiveness of Tyco's yield and the prospect of an economic rebound.
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The fund's yield of 9%, which is net of expenses and the dilution caused by uninvested cash, implies that Keenan's junk is yielding more than 10%.
Depending on how busy it is, a dollar will buy New York customers between 20 minutes and 4 hours of surf time, the price determined by software modeled after the airline's yield-management system.
In the No. 1 corn and soy state of Iowa on Friday, scouts estimated the state's yield at 146 bpa, down 16 percent from the average of 174.7 bpa in the same areas of the state last year.
For example, the Amazon pupunha-a is a fruit that can yield twice as much starch as Iowa corn, and the Amazonian babassu palm gives the world's highest yield of vegetable oil.
Today's dividend yield is uncompetitive with municipal paper and low-grade corporates and is subject to cutbacks like GE's.
With long-term earnings and revenue growth both above 19%, attractive valuations (the stock's PEG ratio is 0.47), high returns on equity, and a decent dividend yield, it's easy to see why Reese's guru strategies find the stock a good one for 2010 and beyond.
By laying bare the basic mechanisms of thought, the institute's work could eventually yield clues to conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and autism and mental disorders like depression.
In the market for U.S government bonds, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note edged up to 1.78 percent from 1.76 percent in late Monday trading.
The yield on Spain's bonds started to climb, tracked closely by the return on Italian debt.
The yield on HSBC's Premier Savings online account has fallen to 0.3% from 0.8% last summer.
But at least its foreign debt pays about three-and-a-half percentage points more in yield than Romania's.
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Anyone trying to set aside money for retirement is not going to get yield in U.S. Treasurys.
One tool for putting valuations into perspective is the market's earnings yield.
The yield on America's ten-year Treasury bond rose quickly by eight basis points (a basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point).
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