Mr. Crocker pointed to yields that were more than double those of 10-year Treasuries, now yielding about 4.5percentt, and to the efforts of the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy by lowering interest rates, making credit more available to corporations.
Bond prices move inversely to yields.
Investors, however, were divided on what might happen to yields even if the credit rating were downgraded.
According to yields on 10-year TIPS, expectations for annual inflation over that timeframe haven't risen to 2.7% during the whole of the recovery.
By purchasing government bonds, the Fed is exerting upward pressure on the prices of those bonds, and downward pressure on yields, or interest rates, since bond prices move inversely to yields.
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Aside from benefit to yields from having 15% of fleet recovering yield at a double digit rate in the fourth quarter, more important is the idea that if Costa can recover to that degree, then Carnival should also be able to recover from Carnival brand's image issues from a far less serious issue.
Proponents of this view point to the spread between the borrowing costs of sovereign governments and firms, as well as the unusual level of earnings yields on shares relative to yields on bonds.I have a different view: the entities capable of issuing safe assets (governments with their own currencies) have been failing to do so in sufficient size to meet investor demand.
Even if slightly negative yields are palatable, however, it seems inconceivable that investors would accept an annual loss of 5%, say.Since prices move in the opposite direction to yields, it is thus difficult to imagine investors buying bonds at current yields making much of a capital gain.
This has led to yields exceeding 9%.
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