While the number of women seeking angel capital is low, the percentage that received angel investments (25%) is above the market yield rate and these data indicate that when women do seek angel capital they lead the market yield rate by 4%.
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Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou said last month that the yield rate of Apple's touch-screen devices hasn't been satisfactory and has hurt its profitability.
"Suppliers will ramp up production and try to improve the yield rate for the new iPad in the fourth quarter before its official launch in early 2012, " said a person at the supplier.
Here is a chart which shows the credit spread of high yield bonds vs. the default rate of high yield bonds since 1997.
As you know, George Osborne is scrapping the 50% top rate of tax, and replacing it with a 45% rate, because he was informed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that there was massive avoidance of the new top rate, such that the yield from the higher rate was trivial.
Because the earnings yield is a rate of return, it can be directly compared with other rates of return.
After all, if they thought that whatever expansion they were considering would only yield an internal rate of return of 5%, they would conclude that they should not engage in the expansion since it would cause them to lock in a guaranteed loss of 1% per year.
Meanwhile, interest rates remain negative, meaning the yield is below the rate of inflation.
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T-bills yield a negative real rate of return now and 10-year Treasuries yielding 4% don't light my fire.
In a world where Federal Reserve zero-interest-rate policy has made it impossible to earn any real yield the 10-year Treasury rate is well below 2% on standard-issue bonds, the income payout on high yield bonds (the polite term for junk) is proving too hard to resist.
Borrowing costs continue to plunge as investors hunt for yield in a low-rate environment.
Other options might be high-yield bonds, floating-rate debt, cash, commodities, or real-estate income producing properties.
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Force financial institutions to buy treasury bills that yield far less than the rate of inflation.
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High yield bonds and senior floating rate loans have performed quite well over the past four years.
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Rather, the yield is low because the rate on Treasuries is historically low.
On Tuesday, Germany - the biggest economy in Europe - saw its bond yield drop below the inflation rate for first time since reunification.
To do a quick and dirty analysis of the expected return for junk bonds, all you need to do is look at the yield and subtract the default rate ( read why here).
In the case of Italy, the yield or de facto interest rate on its five-year debt went through the punitive and unaffordable 7% threshold again early this morning and is now a high 6.9%.
Although the overall dividend rate and yield remained relatively high throughout this period, it is also important to recognize that Vornado Realty Trust did cut their dividend several times as Funds From Operations modestly weakened.
The point is that Italy's bond yield - the implicit interest rate it pays - is unlikely to fall decisively below the catastrophically unaffordable 7% unless and until the eurozone demonstrates that there is a bailout facility (of some sort) that has sufficient resources to lend to Italy if investors refuse to do so.
Whether the institution measures its return on that investment in a higher ranking, a lower acceptance rate, a greater yield, a bigger endowment, a higher average starting salary, a better grad-school admission rate, or a greater percentage of alumni who donate, the student body it attracts initially is integral to any and all results.
As default risk is the primary driver of high-yield corporate bond prices, as opposed to interest rate direction, when the economy expands, the risk of high-yield corporate bonds defaulting is reduced and this is reflected in lower volatility.
There are bonds whose yield depends on the federal funds rate staying within a specified band.
Yield factors in both the interest rate paid by the bond and the actual price of the bond.
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Investors will buy subordinated debt at a yield quite close to the riskless rate only if they are sure the bank is low-risk.
These alternatives to detention yield about a 93% appearance rate before the immigration courts and allow people to remain with their families and communities.
Just as in the past, high yield bonds trade at an interest rate spread over Treasury bonds, which are more liquid and less subject to default risk.
The current rate provides a yield of 2.5%.
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In fact, the interest rate - or yield - on Portuguese sovereign debt has risen relentlessly, especially in the last week, as the deal to cut the value of Greek debt owned by the private sector has moved closer to a reality.
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