Sentence examples for benchmark yield from inspiring English sources

Italy's benchmark yield was just below 5percentt.

As investors continued to seek havens, United States bond prices soared for a fifth consecutive trading session, pushing the 10-year benchmark yield to a new low of 1.72 percent.

In addition, tobacco bonds still carry comparatively high yields: the Alaska offering included a 28-year28-year5.5percent bond that was priced to yield 5.62percentt, or 0.57 percentage points more than the benchmark yield of top-rated municipal bonds, according to Bear , Stearns

For instance, the 30-year 6.375 percent term bonds in South Carolina's $934 million deal were priced to yield 1.35 percentage points more than the benchmark yield of top-rated municipal bonds of 6.48 percent; in the middle of August, the same bond traded at a yield of only 5.75percentt, 0.74 percentage pointsmore than the benchmark, according to Bear , Stearns

The benchmark yield curve is another issue.

In Treasuries, the 10-year benchmark yield rose slightly to 3.23% after the Fed statement Thursday, just a few basis points below last month's highs.

On Thursday, Italy's 10-year benchmark yields broke above the 6 percent level for the first time since August.

Benchmark yields jumped 14.4 basis points (about one-seventh of a percentage point) to 6.01 percent in Italy and 17.7 basis points to 5.49 percent in Spain.

In the bond market, the price of Treasury bonds gained yesterday, pushing benchmark yields close to three-month lows as doubts about corporate profits sent stocks sliding and drove investors to the safety of government securities.

On October 16th the spread between Italian and German benchmark yields, a measure of investor confidence, passed 172 basis points, a rise of more than 40 points from its low on September 5th.

Running the same benchmark yielded an average 82fps.