Sentence examples for attractive spreads from inspiring English sources

We have been buying lots of Baa-rated companies like Ford, General Motors and Sprint, which are trading at very attractive spreads to Treasury bonds.

The attractive spreads, including a very blue and deep sea-scape makes a pleasing and simple introduction to a huge range of animals and the habitats they live in.

MAKING matters worse, the Federal Reserve's efforts to head off inflation with increases in short-term interest rates have forced junk bonds to move in lock step to maintain an attractive spread.

BOH exhibits this strong funding structure, which also enables it to lend to lower risk entities, and yet still earn an attractive spread.

That suggests we could have one round of attractive ties spread from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday, with another round of run of the mill fixtures scheduled for a Challenge Cup weekend later in the summer.

This is what makes them attractive: you can spread out your payments and pay no interest.

The Quarterly, which was the size of a small phone book, typically sandwiched pictures of merchandise between celebrity interviews and even book and music reviews in the back and, in the front, several Bruce Weber photo spreads of attractive young people -- ripped, hunky guys and long-limbed blondes, mostly -- who seem to have lost most, or even all, of their own Abercrombie apparel.

Regulations requiring banks to close their proprietary-trading desks, which were very active in this area, make trades less crowded and spreads more attractive relative to their risk, says J. Tomilson Hill of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, a fund of hedge funds.Not all merger-arbitrage funds will be winners.

It's because the Federal Reserve has kept interest rates so low that they can borrow a lot or get a lot of money from the feds and invest it at reasonably attractive rates, so the spreads are really quite dramatic for them.

In turn, companies now find the cost of finance in the junk-bond market attractive once again; the spread (excess interest rate) over government bonds has fallen sharply.

These patterns or biases appear very early in human development and may constrain "human cognition such that creationist ideas are attractive and easier to spread, whereas evolutionary ideas are less contagious" (Evans 2008).