Sentence examples for return of treasuries from inspiring English sources

If the economy picks up, and inflation pressures will make rates of return of treasuries less appealing than they seemed during the bear market.

Returns on Treasuries are so low that many investors are losing money after adjusting for inflation.

A pension or sovereign-wealth fund would earn a premium and in return deposit, say, $10 billion of treasuries in a lockbox.

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Subtract 2.1 percentage points from your 1.2% aftertax return and you have a real aftertax return of -0.9% on Treasurys.

"That would be a return of 18percentt a year versus Treasuries at 2percentt".

"At yields higher than those of Treasuries, muni-bond returns are looking downright stocklike, with just a fraction of the risk," Janet Paskin writes.

Note you can get a risk-free real return of 3.5% on inflation-indexed Treasurys.

But from October 1998 through June 2001, TIPS had a total return of 21.3percentt, versus 7.9percentt for traditional Treasuries.

That investment in overseas bonds was equal to nearly a tenth of China's entire economic output last year, even though Treasuries have a return of only 0.13 to 4.76 percent currently.

In 2008, for example, the average long-term government bond fund returned more than 27percentt, as frightened investors drove up the value of Treasuries.