As said above, yield to maturity (YTM) is the most commonly cited yield measurement.
It is worth noting that the average yield to maturity does not include fees and expenses.
Keenan bought the bonds at around 85 cents on the dollar, for a yield to maturity of 15%.
In bond-market lingo, the bond now has a "yield to maturity" of 2%.
Holdings Inc. 5.625% Due Feb. 1, 2020 (CUSIP: 552676AP3 ) at 111 for a 3.80% noncallable yield to maturity.
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Buy the CIT Group 7% due May 1, 2015 CUSIP: 125581FV5 at 100 for a 7% yield to maturity.
Continental Airlines (nyse: CAL - news - people ) paper that carries a 30% yield to maturity.
The Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund has a yield to maturity of 1.6%, scarcely enough to keep up with inflation.
Buy Fidelity National Financial 6.60% Due Mat 15, 2017 (CUSIP: 31620RAC9) at 113.29 for a 3.15 % noncallable yield to maturity.
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One, the yield to the worst call date is much better than yield to maturity of a non-callable bond (aka, bullet bond).
Currently, their yield to maturity or first call is nearer 2 percent.
The average yield to maturity from the HE00 index has compressed to 9.49%, from the wide of 11.97% at the end of November.
At the same time Vanguard's New York Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund, with an average duration of 6.8 years, offered a yield to maturity of 3.8%.
My cost of carry on high yield bonds runs at 70 basis points for a net yield to maturity for me near 6 percent.
Yield to maturity is the measurement most often used, but it is important to understand several other yield measurements that are used in certain situations.
Its 7.25s of February 2011 are trading at 78 cents on the dollar, for an 11.3% yield to maturity, 6 percentage points better than Treasurys.
Yield to maturity on emerging-market debt as measured by the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index is roughly 5.37%, compared with roughly 2% for the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond.
Examples: University of Texas munis, due August 2030, bought at 5.8% yield to maturity, and bonds issued by New York City Transitional Finance Authority, due November 2027, bought at 5.75% yield to maturity.
Unlike most municipal paper, these bonds were taxable and priced at par to yield 8% to maturity in 2006.
All else being equal, as a bond moves closer and closer to its maturity date, its yield moves closer and closer to zero.
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The yield to the 2014 call is 4.3% and 5.6% to maturity if you pay 109.45.
Most Treasurys cannot be called in early, meaning that if you hold one to maturity you will get the yield you bargained for.
The deferred September 2012 maturity rose lowering its implied yield to 0.80% and close to a contract high reached in November when its implied yield slipped to 0.73%.
The initial price thinking for the 2021 maturity was a 5% coupon to yield 3.20%.
The February 2021 maturity narrowed the yield gap over benchmark treasuries by three basis points to 86 pips.
The 5.5% Ginnie Mae (Government National Mortgage Association) with a final maturity in 2036 is priced at 99.6 cents on the dollar to yield 5.6%.
"Speaking in terms of JGB investments, investors who need yield will ultimately extend the maturity of JGBs they are buying, and those who don't want to do that or can't do that will buy other things like foreign bonds or credit, and in some cases equity, " said Kenji Sakaguchi, chief investment officer at Prudential Investment Management Japan Co.
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