The yield is how much interest you earn if you hold the bond to maturity, which people often equate with expected return.

所谓收益率就是你持有的某种债券期满时可以获得的利息，人们经常将之等同于预期回报。

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Investors and regulators often look at bond yields to gauge their risk and expected return.

投资者和监管者通过债券收益率来评估其风险和预期回报。

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Rather than benefiting from company profits the way that stock holders do, bond holders receive a fixed rate of return - a percentage of the bond's original offering price.

债券持有者不像股票持有者从公司的盈利中分红获利，而是以债券发行价格的一定百分比的固定回报率来获利。

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If we have an annual return that we're looking at, we can find a completely riskless asset with an annual return-- it would be a government bond that matures in one year.

如果我们可以查看各项资产的年度收益，我们可以找到一个零风险,且达到预期年度收益的资产项目-,也许是一年期的政府债券。

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They are right up to a point: investors carry less currency risk if some of a bond's return is denominated in domestic currency.

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In consequence pension funds and banks will no longer be able to give up some of their bond yield in return for insuring the capital against government default.

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