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[yeeld] / jild /






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The 10-year Japanese government bond touched 2.901% on July 9, the highest yield since 1996.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Enormous quantities of them, year after year, without complaint and, critically, without much regard for the yield.

From MarketWatch 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

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

“I yield the combat. Horatio, this lady’s mind is a fair match for mine, and her beauty grows with the wisdom she speaks.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Hoisington Investment Management’s fourth-quarter 2025 letter to shareholders argued disinflation would carry through 2026 and that lower long-term yields looked increasingly likely.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

Eurozone government bond yields fell at open, tracking Treasury yields.

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

A couple of weeks ago, Hoisington concluded that equilibrium U.S. inflation is migrating up toward 3.5% to 4.5%, and that both inflation and long-term Treasury yields will trend higher.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

The cotton gin meant bigger cotton yields and the iron tools to harvest it, iron horseshoes for the horses tugging the wagons with iron rims and parts that took it to market.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

Koffi watched the fractured sky above her pale as night yielded to dawn.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

As the leader of an export-dependent economy, Carney is trying to walk a tightrope, yielding ground to secure tariff relief while attempting to retain enough leverage to protect Canadian sovereignty.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

But it is here, in these darker and less yielding works, that his imagination is most fully itself: less certain and considerably more interesting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Dodgers starting pitcher Eric Lauer turned in a quality start, yielding three runs in six innings.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

The ETF, now yielding 2.3% holds S&P 500 members with at least 25 consecutive years of dividend increases.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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