"Crop yields in some areas dropped as much as 50%, " according to the agency.
Government bond yields in Italy and Spain quickly spiked and pressure mounted against Spanish banks.
The borrower has raised 27 percent thanks to trusting investors looking for higher yields in this market.
Within the next decade, bond yields in highly indebeted developed countries will return to their long-term averages.
Private owners are willing to accept those lower yields in hopes that the property values will rise.
As doubts about whether countries would get to the altar faded, so yields in government-bond markets converged.
The pursuit of higher yields in the fixed income world poses an entirely different risk than stocks.
That is partly why bond yields in Europe, despite continued high levels of unemployment, have risen sharply.
The result was treasury bond prices were inflated and yields declined, creating the lowest treasury yields in history.
Mr. Bernanke's comments caused bond yields in the U.S. and Japan to spike.
Fund managers like Zervos in the US and Japanese Toshin funds love those yields in local currency debt.
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Gero cited extra interest in gold since the yields in another traditional safe haven, U.S. Treasury securities, are low.
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This has been crystallised in what has happened to Italian and Spanish bond yields in the past 10 days.
It also aims to help them increase their yields in order to become self-sufficient and grow beyond subsistence level.
Cash yields in recent years have been insufficient to meet the income needs of all but the most affluent investors.
So yields in Japan will go to 2.5 % and then 3.5%, then probably 5% over the next three years.
Ten-year bond yields in the country climbed to 5.99% and 6.58%, respectively, as spreads over corresponding German bunds widened further.
Initial wafer runs on 32-nanometer process node suggest a quick ramp to high yields in 2010 and minimal additional development outlays.
Government bond yields in Europe and Japan are lower, so these will have a suppressing effect on our 10-year Treasury note.
Dividend yields in Europe were higher than the yields available on government bonds, a phenomenon not seen since the late 1950s.
There was a fairly well-subscribed Italian debt auction Monday, but bond yields in Portugal rose to Euro era highs of around 16% Monday.
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For herbicide-tolerant soybeans, yields in the Prairie states were about 25% higher, yet in the Eastern states they were down by about 8%.
Rising bond yields in Portugal Wednesday and some weak economic data from the European Union also have heightened the EU sovereign debt crisis jitters.
Still, many investors are looking for predictable yields in their portfolios, especially as more and more investors move out of bonds and into equities.
Bond yields in Europe, while still nowhere near crisis-era peaks, flared up Monday in response to the latest headlines from Italy and Spain.
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Bond yields in turn have fluctuated over 24 months as investors have struggled to understand the risks involved with municipal debt in a changing encironment.
Envision's Ms. Cohen is advising individual investors to take advantage of the yields in tax-free munis, focusing on issuers that are managing their budgets well.
The European Union financial and sovereign debt crisis was ratcheted up yet another notch Thursday when bond yields in Spain pushed above the critical 7% level.
Crop yields in recent dry years were less affected by drought than crops of the dust-bowl droughts of the 1930s, when there was less carbon dioxide.
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Looking closer, soveriegn yields in countries like China, Singapore, Indonesia and Korea are averaging 6.3% over the last three months and 8.6% over the last year.
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