yield
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Two-year Treasury yields—which tend to rise and fall with expectations for short-term rates set by the Fed—climbed for the second straight session to 3.830% on Thursday.
The confluence of these three developments — oil above $100 a barrel, a 2-year yield above the fed funds rate, and a bear-steepening dynamic in the bond market — is making some investors nervous.
From MarketWatch
The Memphis, Tenn., company’s Express segment was boosted by higher domestic and international package yields and U.S. volume, as well as cost cutting from FedEx’s turnaround plan.
Private-credit lenders offer higher yields to investors to compensate for the heightened risks.
From MarketWatch
For decades, chicken thighs rated so low in the national pecking order that U.S. poultry producers unloaded much of their dark-meat yield to hungry markets abroad in Russia, Mexico, and across Asia.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
