yield
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Savings accounts, short-term Treasury bills and money-market funds paid little yield when interest rates were near zero.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Royal Caribbean is seeing better yield trends for higher-end customers, and likely wants more access to this customer, but this is hard to achieve in cruise given supply constraints,” the analysts said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The yield on the 30-year bond rose 0.099 percentage point to 5.401%, making its biggest one-day leap since May to reach its highest level since 2004.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tokyo's gains came as the benchmark 10-year JGB yield rose to 3.055 percent, hitting a 30 year high, after US bond yields jumped.
From Barron's
For geometers, Cavalieri’s statement was troublesome indeed; adding infinite zero-area lines could not yield a two-dimensional triangle, nor could infinite zero-volume planes add up to a three-dimensional structure.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Ten-year yields continued to rise in erratic trade Thursday, adding another 2.2 basis points to 5.138%—on track to settle above their previous highest close in July 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Additionally, the fact that yields have now been high for several years, tracing back to 2022, means that brokers already aren’t relying as much on cash lying around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
In recent days, Krinsky has warned clients about what he sees as a growing triple threat: weak stock-market breadth, rising credit spreads and rising nominal Treasury yields.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
Tokyo's gains came as the benchmark 10-year JGB yield rose to 3.055 percent, hitting a 30 year high, after US bond yields jumped.
From Barron's
As I’ve already discussed, food production tends to lead to increased population densities because it yields more edible calories per acre than does hunting-gathering.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Both campaigns yielded European qualifiers which ended in dramatic, last-gasp Conference League play-off exits.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
One of the first things I do every morning is check my Oura Ring to see what sleep score the night yielded for me.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
As of July, the Turkish investigation, which is ongoing, had yielded more than 130 arrests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
This stock screen yielded a list of 12 stocks that are near 52-week lows and favored by analysts who expect double-digit price rebounds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The excavation of the Mary Rose yielded one of the largest and most amazing arrays of artifacts ever recovered.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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The breakthrough revived the program and led the industry to produce and improve on Compound E, renamed cortisone, yielding medicines such as Merck’s own Decadron.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She insisted stats justified the call, but the partnership never gelled, yielding only half a point.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
In Thursday trading U.S. 10-year bonds were yielding 4.83% and Nasdaq futures were indicating a lower open.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Trying to process a three-dimensional scene in this way has proven to be massively inefficient, yielding models that are too slow to direct a robot in most situations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Yet he whom it describes scarcely impressed one with the idea of a gentle, a yielding, an impressible, or even of a placid nature.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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