yield
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For example, premiums on riskier corporate bonds — the extra yield investors demand versus safer government debt — were around the lowest on record this week.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
Bonds operate like seesaws: When the interest rate, or yield, falls, the price rises.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
The yield on the 30-year bond slipped 0.023 percentage point to 5.243%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell 0.032 percentage point to 4.761%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
At this point, our questioning of the picture’s surface comes to an end, for the portrait fails to yield up further clues.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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Nvidia pays big for Hugging Face, bond yields continue to rise, and Kalshi and the NBA give two big cheaters the boot.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Then, bond yields are on the rise and the hosts discuss why global concern is rising with them.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
The comments prompted a reversal in yields on long-dated Treasurys and other developed-market sovereign bonds from multiyear highs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Watling’s commentary was published before the S&P 500’s 1.1% rally on Thursday as bond yields pulled back, but his observations remain pertinent as the market is yet to break meaningfully above its mid-August high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026
That Indian farmers had greater skill and bounty, and more successful yields, than most Europeans who worked the same land.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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Incidentally, the city that launched Frankel is home to her least favorite Caesar, an olive-strewn offering that yielded her lowest-ever rating of 5.4.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
However, to date, Mexico’s stepped-up efforts have yielded few results.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
“Pakistan’s Army Chief concluded a one-day visit to Iran, with local media suggesting the trip yielded valuable results,” ANZ Research analysts say in a research report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
For instance, in 2016, 63.4% of S&P 500 stocks yielded more than U.S. 10-year notes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Presently he got one to suit; after a little play back and forward the bolt yielded, and, with a rusty clang, shot back.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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As I peppered him with questions about the pink car and the Brinks armored truck, he remained cagey while slowly yielding information.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
A higher interest-rate environment typically weighs on non-interest yielding assets such as gold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The booming, 10-inch speaker device is intended to connect with drivers who, in the view of law enforcement, are yielding less frequently to emergency sirens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Both of these are yielding around 6.5%, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
After being corrected and printed, the one thousand five hundred pages reduced themselves to six hundred, yielding a voluminous treatise on the ninety- nine names of God and formulas for attaining nirvana through respiratory exercise.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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