The high-yielding stocks slumped as investors increasingly optimistic on the U.S. economic recovery dumped U.S. Treasurys.
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Extremely low interest rates are enticing many investors to seek income in high-yielding stocks.
The pound was treated for many years as a high-yielding version of the euro.
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Falling interest rates have helped to create new markets in high-yielding debt, such as junk bonds.
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In the investments that are better equipped to withstand a black swan event, such as high-yielding dividend stocks.
Worst of all, farmers in earlier generations had a big incentive to get their hands on high-yielding seeds.
The carry traders, of course, immediately sell the borrowed yen to acquire high-yielding assets of the other currencies.
Treasury yields are at historically low levels and many investors are seeking high-yielding instruments with secure revenue streams.
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Westamerica Bancorporation, a Californian lender, was lambasted for backing away from high-yielding property loans and allowing its portfolio to shrink.
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Moreover, managers say that they saw a pickup in separate-account money from pension funds and other institutional investors looking for high-yielding alternatives.
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But what happens to high-yielding stocks when taxation of dividend income rises next year potentially from 15% in 2012 to 43.4% in 2013?
Hence most investors flocked to the next best thing: fixed-income instruments such as investment grade bonds, U.S. Treasuries and even high-yielding junk bonds.
This seems unlikely: firms that hope to survive have no choice but to hold on to their Treasuries, their most high-yielding assets at present.
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Of course, investing in high-yielding stocks can be a double-edged sword.
High-yielding debt in risky, speculative-grade companies has gained 38% this year.
To finance the hole, Ukraine has been issuing domestic high-yielding bonds.
If the stock market is weak heading into the jobs report, stocks could form a panic low, as many high-yielding stocks are now reaching attractive levels.
Chongqing Holley, a sister company of Kunming's, has set up a research laboratory in Hunan to help it identify high-yielding plants and establish a seed bank.
The Fed is also concerned with other high-yielding debt, like mortgage backed REITs, as they fear individual and institutional investors will take on too many high-risk assets.
Dividend investors might thus want to sell shares of some high-yielding companies that aren't boosting their payments and add some with moderate yields and steady payment growth.
"In India, the monsoon is another negative factor" in addition to high interest rates, which encourages investors to keep cash in relatively high-yielding savings accounts, Mr. Shaoul said.
Foreign hedge funds and the like have been unwinding huge positions in the yen carry trade, where they borrowed cheap yen in order to invest in high-yielding currencies.
Stock buybacks are an end of lifecycle investment, and should trigger great fear in investors because they demonstrate management has lost the ability to identify high-yielding growth opportunities.
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Among the high-yielding financial stocks that UBS favors are companies like French banks Societe Generale and BNP Paribas, insurers Allianz and Zurich Financial and global banking giant HSBC.
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