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  • 1yield — {{11}}yield (n.) O.E. gield payment, sum of money (see YIELD (Cf. yield) (v.)); extended sense of production (as of crops) is first attested mid 15c. Earliest English sense survives in financial yield from investments. {{12}}yield (v.) O.E.… …

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  • 2yield curve strategies — Investments that position a portfolio to capitalize on expected changes in the shape of the Treasury yield curve. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …

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  • 3yield spread strategies — Investments that position a portfolio to capitalize on expected changes in yield spreads between sectors of the bond market. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …

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  • 4Yield — The percentage rate of return paid on a stock in the form of dividends, or the effective rate of interest paid on a bond or note. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * * ▪ I. yield yield 1 [jiːld] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] FINANCE the… …

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  • 5yield — A measure of the annual return on an investment. Chicago Board of Trade glossary 1) The production of a piece of land; e.g., his land yielded 100 bushels per acre. 2) The return provided by an investment; for example, if the return on an… …

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  • 6Yield curve — This article is about yield curves as used in finance. For the term s use in physics, see Yield curve (physics). Not to be confused with Yield curve spread – see Z spread. The US dollar yield curve as of February 9, 2005. The curve has a typical… …

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  • 7yield — yield1 [ji:ld] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(result)¦ 2¦(crops/profits)¦ 3¦(agree unwillingly)¦ 4¦(traffic)¦ 5¦(move/bend/break)¦ 6¦(give up fighting)¦ Phrasal verbs  yield to something  yield something<=>up ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin …

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  • 8yield — [[t]jɪ͟əld[/t]] ♦♦♦ yields, yielding, yielded 1) VERB If you yield to someone or something, you stop resisting them. [FORMAL] [V to n] Carmen yielded to general pressure and grudgingly took the child to a specialist... [V to n] I yielded to an… …

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  • 9yield — 1) The income from an investment expressed in various ways. The nominal yield of a fixed interest security is the interest it pays, expressed as a percentage of its par value. For example, a £100 stock quoted as paying 8% interest will yield £8… …

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  • 10yield — The income from an investment expressed in various ways. The nominal yield of a fixed interest security is the interest it pays, expressed as a percentage of its par value For example, a £100 stock quoted as paying 8% interest will yield £8 per… …

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