yield
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The yield on the policy-sensitive two-year Treasury rose 0.045 percentage point to 4.520%.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
The 10-year Treasury yield fell 0.115 points in the two sessions following the election, settling Thursday at 4.836%.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 5, 2026
However study lead, Professor Duncan Pirrie from the University of South Wales, said the latest investigation has left them "far better equipped to focus on the areas most likely to yield an answer."
From BBC β Nov. 5, 2026
The yield on the 30-year bond declined 0.030 percentage point to 5.250%.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 5, 2026
But when she threw her arms around him and coaxed him, “Father, dearest, let me be like Diana,” he would yield and she would be off to the deep woods, blissful in her freedom.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Chinese government bond yields are also on the decline, something that could rekindle concerns among policymakers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
This week in the Fix My Portfolio column, Beth Pinsker looked at attractive new yields for the Treasury’s I-bonds and explained how you can set up your own inflation-protected income stream.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
Ten-year yields got to 5.3%, now they are around a half point lower.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
We discussed interest rates, bond yields and how rising yields can affect bond-fund values as investors move money in search of better returns.
From MarketWatch β Nov. 6, 2026
A jungle yields no abundance to feed the multitudes, and supports no leisure class.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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The companies discovered that in healthcare, one-stop-shopping was more expensive to execute and yielded lower profits than they expected.
From Los Angeles Times β Nov. 6, 2026
You hardly have to dig deep into history for a time when the 10-year yielded less than 4%.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
The Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969, and the Orgueil meteorite in France, 1864, have previously yielded a rich variety of organic molecules, including nucleobases.
From Science Daily β Nov. 3, 2026
It could have led to a collapse but, instead, they took the game to the Spanish champions during an engrossing first half, which could - and perhaps should - have yielded a leveller.
From BBC β Nov. 3, 2026
Delay yielded only his intelligence that Death, death, we might as well skip across the moon as walk through town without a challenge.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Two-year notes were yielding nearly 5% in late September.
From The Wall Street Journal β Nov. 6, 2026
Rome Health still has a high turnover rate—28% as of last year—but the hospital said lowering that number is yielding results.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 20, 2026
A 10-year Treasury yielding more than 5% starts looking awfully attractive to retirees, pension funds, insurers, foreign institutions and anyone else searching for dependable income.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 16, 2026
The satire from director Alejandro González Iñárritu about an impending climate change apocalypse has divided critics, yielding very mixed reviews.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 2, 2026
The North American site that currently enjoys the strongest credentials as a possible pre-Clovis site is Meadowcroft rock shelter, in Pennsylvania, yielding reported human-associated radiocarbon dates of about 16,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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