Sentence examples for bolster yields from inspiring English sources

Some have bought distressed securities at premium prices to bolster yields.

But critics point out that subsistence farmers in developing countries often buy small amounts of improved varieties and breed them with local varieties to bolster yields.

Bond fund managers trying to bolster yield may also be snapping up mortgage-backed bonds with the highest possible yields, according to Robert F. Auwaerter, head of fixed-income portfolio management at the Vanguard Group.

The green revolution has slowed since the early 1990s, and it has become harder to bolster crop yields, as I have discussed in my book, "An Economist Gets Lunch".

Fund managers can bolster the yield on a portfolio by buying riskier bonds.

He said that careful investments in triple-A-rated mortgage-backed bonds, or similar bank loan funds, could be a good way to bolster the yield of fixed-income portfolios.

And big banks and mortgage originators — Countrywide, especially — kept at least some stated-income loans on their books in an effort to bolster their own yields.

For that reason, Mr. Geithner has urged European leaders to keep up efforts to bring down bond yields and bolster growth.

The Canada Council for the Arts has begun to more actively foster a translation program between Canada's two national languages, and bolstered funding has yielded, for instance, an English version of Jocelyne Saucier's "And the Birds Rained Down," a finalist for CBC Radio's Canada Reads contest (the Canadian equivalent of an Oprah stamp of approval).

Such a steepening of the yield curve should bolster bank earnings and improve returns for insurers and pension funds.

Investors should use this period to bolster their "core" portfolio with high-yield bonds and high-income equities while accumulating attractive assets on dips, in anticipation of a market rebound in the second half of the year.