yield
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With the yield on 2-year Treasury notes hitting its highest level in over a year, clients will be sorely tempted to move cash out of bank accounts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
The 10-year Bund yield fell 3.5 basis points to 3.134%, according to LSEG.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Even with the slight dip on Friday, the yield ended the week at 4.68%, the highest weekly closing yield since January 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
He praised the Secret Service officers and law enforcement personnel who responded that night, calling the attack “an assault on our democracy itself” and declaring that “we do not yield to political violence.”
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
For geometers, Cavalieri’s statement was troublesome indeed; adding infinite zero-area lines could not yield a two-dimensional triangle, nor could infinite zero-volume planes add up to a three-dimensional structure.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Treasury yields are heavily influenced by investors’ expectations for short-term rates set by the Fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Queen Victoria was on the throne when Rothamsted Research's founders, Sir John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, began studying a field near Harpenden to find out how fertilisers and manure affected hay yields.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Oil prices eased pressure on bond yields ahead of the Fed’s interest rate decision next week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Treasury yields followed oil prices higher in the past week.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 26, 2026
It took extensive drilling to find what was there, and the yields were not enormous.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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It yielded nothing, which was what it deserved.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But his search yielded only crushed masonry; no bones, and no sign of his son, or the others killed with him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Overall, though, the 78th Emmy Awards nominations yielded a typical slate of choices.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
In Belgium, the site of Goyet yielded the remains of four Neanderthal females and two immature individuals.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
But it wasn’t my research into old movies, comics, or videogames that had yielded my first real clue.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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Following Fedorov's accusations, Syrsky, who led Kyiv's defence in the crucial first months of the 2022 invasion, called for a focus on "the war and on an effective strategy that is currently yielding concrete results".
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
The end of the Trojan War is one of several climaxes, yielding one of the most brilliant action scenes of the filmmaker’s celebrated career.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Dodgers starting pitcher Eric Lauer turned in a quality start, yielding three runs in six innings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Nations that once bludgeoned each other found common purpose, yielding years of economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The crew survived on a steady diet of tortoise meat, with every island yielding a seemingly unique variety of tortoise.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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