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Another goal of lowering the yield on long-term bonds was to stimulate demand for equities.
Many investors are unable to examine the extent to which a bond fund’s high yield is due to risk-taking, and would thus benefit from a rating of the fund’s holdings.
While details are not yet fully known, the test suggests substantial progress on the part of North Korea’s scientists in increasing the yield of their weaponry.
If the US Congress deals with Obama’s proposal responsibly, and does not yield to those motivated by a partisan desire to embarrass him at every turn, it will enhance its own claim to recapture the constitutional power to authorize military conflict – a power that has been disregarded more often than not in the past half-century.
If targeted at the most promising technology options (say, solar and wind), such a strategy would yield early unit cost write-downs through innovation, learning, and economies of scale; give the private sector clear, credible, and attractive signals; and encourage energy efficiency.
In other words, long-term investments in stocks do yield more than investments in government securities, but the heightened volatility means that decades must pass before we can safely conclude that an average stock investment has indeed brought higher returns.
This pressure is compounded in resource-rich Latin American countries by the increase in commodity prices caused by a similar search for yield and by the fall in the dollar’s value.
Furthermore, given the controversy that its announcement of the OMT program has incited in Germany – not least with the Bundesbank – the ECB would certainly be discouraged from pursuing any Fed-like effort to push for lower interest rates along the yield curve.
Those islands that have been well explored archaeologically yield bones of species the Polynesians exterminated, while the islands now lack them.
The German solution to this conundrum – keeping wage growth below that of productivity, thereby reducing unit labor costs – took more than a decade to yield results.
The Northern Caucasus and its vicinity already is a tinderbox; acquiring more territory with disaffected Muslims would undoubtedly yield further security challenges.
Indeed, it has been calculated that the work being done to expand vaccine coverage in developing countries by my organization, the GAVI Alliance, should yield an 18% return on investment by 2020.
Faster growth and returns on public investment yield higher tax revenues, and a 5 to 6% return is more than enough to offset temporary increases in the national debt.
If they yield to it, the Chinese economy, they argue, may fall into the same deflationary trap that ensnared Japan after the yen’s appreciation in the 1980’s – under US pressure – inflated a catastrophic asset-price bubble.
In the United States, the 30-year Treasury bond yield reached a record low (since the Federal Reserve series began in 1972) of 2.25% on January 30.
The yield on the United Kingdom's 30-year government bond fell to 2.04% on the same day.
If trading today is not helping to move capital to its highest and best use, reallocating inefficiently employed financial talent could yield big benefits.
Banked cord blood and collected tissues can yield not only research materials, but information about future genetic conditions as well.
But, apart from strengthening civil society and the habits of freedom, these disciplines yield bottom-line benefits as well.
By forcing greater efficiency and collaboration, misfortune can yield benefit.
With annual inflation running at about 2%, the increase in the real interest rate has pushed the nominal yield on ten-year bonds to 3%.
Looking ahead, the combination of the rising debt ratio, higher short-term interest rates, and further increases in inflation will push the nominal yield on ten-year bonds above 4%.
If the continent could rebalance its energy portfolio, moving away from hydrocarbons slowly, those subsidies could be reallocated in ways that would yield both environmental and economic benefits.
The over-lending was so widespread that at one point it drove down the yield differential between Greek and German bonds to just six basis points – a ridiculously low level for two countries that differ so fundamentally in terms of economic management and financial conditions.
These policies, by design, lowered the return on sovereign bonds, forcing investors to seek yield in markets for higher-risk assets like equities, lower-rated bonds, and foreign securities.
More precisely, the forward earnings yield – that is, the inverse of the P/E ratio – is equal to the risk-free rate plus the equity premium, minus the growth rate of earnings.
Further reforms could yield additional benefits, but much of the handicap imposed on African farmers by post-colonial governments has now been removed.
As the obstacles created by previous government policies and past population growth are gradually removed, adopting successful innovations will yield increasingly large payoffs and faster per-capita growth over time.
At the same time as Rato pushed reluctant European nations to yield some of their power in the Fund, he introduced reforms that clarified and strengthened the Fund’s role in managing exchange rates.
While these actions are vital, putting migration reform on the agenda is as important – a small increase in migration would yield a much greater boon to the global economy and developing countries than the combined benefits of aid and trade reform.
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