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yield

[yeeld] / jild /






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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

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

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

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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