This calculator shows the current yield of a bond. Yields are provided before and after taxes. Current yield equals the bond coupon rate divided by the bond's current price.
This bond yield calculator can help you figure out the current bond yield as well as the bond yield to maturity. The calculator requires several inputs including the current bond price, par value, coupon rate and years until maturity.
Dividends4Life submits: A yield curve is the relationship between yield and maturity. In a "normal" yield curve yields rise as maturity lengthens. When yields drop as the term lengthens, it is referred to as an inverted yield curve. A Yield On Cost (current dividend/basis) curve, like a yield curve,...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 30, 1997--Managed High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE: PHT) is a closed-end management investment company seeking high current income through investments primarily in high yield, high risk debt securities. All bond sectors experienced positive returns in the quarter; however, the high yield sector outperformed others...
Jul 30, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) The US yield curve is now steeper than it has been at any time in the last 10 years. Historical trends show that a steep yield curve usually indicates that an economic upturn is...
This paper argues that the appropriate discount rate to use to report defined benefit pension plan liabilities in the financial statements is a yield derived from an estimate of a double A corporate yield curve. It introduces a new class of credit spread models finding that they obtain more robust...
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: High yield bond spreads based on Merrill Lynch indices narrowed for the 13th straight trading day on Monday. This marks the longest streak of declines since April 2003, and the second longest streak since the series began in 1997. At a...
Few banks have planned adequately for the flattening yield curve. Historically, the vast majority of banks have relied on three things: death, taxes, and a rising yield curve. The rising yield curve made it easy and attractive to borrow short and lend long. If most of the loans stayed current,...
Dividend Inc. submits: Altria Group MO, formerly known as Philip Morris, is the largest domestic produce of tobacco and tobacco related products. MO is currently trading within 5% of its 52-week low and has increased its dividend 42 consecutive years in a row according...
The Bond Yield Calculator for Excel or OpenOffice Calc enables the automatic generation of scheduled bond payments and the calculation of resulting yield to maturity. The model is equipped to handle 'odd' first time periods and is ideal to speed up bond payment and yield calculations. ...
Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 31, 2002--DREYFUS HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND (NYSE: DHF) - The following information for DHF is as of September 30, 2002 except where otherwise noted, and is subject to change at any time: -0- *T DHF market price $3.95 DHF...
The 4th Quarter of 2002 was one of the strongest performing periods since 1991 for the Lehman Brothers US Corporate High Yield Bond Index High Yield as high yield spreads tightened over 175 basis points generating a total return of 6.7%. With yields at 11.5%, off an October month-end high...
Improvements in yield and electrical performance are obtained. NASA's, jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California Arrays of HgCdTe infrared photodetectors have been developed to satisfy stringent performance requirements for use in NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer. The design of these detectors improves relative to prior such arrays manufacturing yield, current-versus-voltage characteristics, and...
Business Editors NEW YORK, New York--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 13, 2003--DREYFUS HIGH YIELD STRATEGIES FUND (NYSE:DHF) -- The following information for DHF is as of December 31, 2002 except where otherwise noted, and is subject to change at any time: -0- *T DHF market price ...
NEW YORK -- Jefferies & Company, Inc., the principal operating subsidiary of Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE:JEF), today announced the addition of Brett M. Levy as a Senior Research Analyst, Managing Director, and Co-Director of High Yield Research. Mr. Levy will cover the metals sector as well as co-manage the firm's...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 26, 1996--Managed High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE:PHT). is a closed-end management investment company seeking high current income through investments primarily in U.S. and foreign debt securities.Current Investment Strategy-- On March 31, 1996, one of the fund's largest sectors was communications (9.3% of net assets) -- which reflects...
NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--March 22, 1996--Managed High Yield Fund Inc. (NYSE: PHT), is a closed-end management investment company seeking high current income through investments primarily in U.S. and foreign debt securities:Current Investment Strategyo On Feb. 29, 1996, one of Fund's largest sectors wascommunications (10.3% of net assets) - which reflects ouroptimism...
NEW YORK -- Managed High Yield Plus Fund Inc. (NYSE: HYF), a closed-end management investment company, today announced that the Fund's Board of Directors has declared a dividend from net investment income of $0.0475 per share, which more closely reflects the current earnings rate of the Fund. The dividend declared...
Poor Corn Yield Cited in Ethanol Fight President Bush served as the most vocal spokesman for ethanol in his jaunts to the Midwest last week, bolstering the prospects of the current legislative proposal in Congress to triple ethanol use in gasoline in the next decade. ...
