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yield

[yeeld] / jild /






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It replaces the previous 8%-11% total shareholder return target, which included dividend yield, and implies a stronger earnings outlook.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The yield on the two-year Treasury rose 0.025 percentage point to 4.759%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Last week, the yield on CoreWeave’s unsecured debt reached 15%, putting the bonds into distressed territory.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

So those bonds still trade at a higher yield.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Again and again, she made the garble of letters yield the true message.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

Ten-year Treasury yields traded below 5.120%, while 30-year yields hovered around 5.455%, as government bonds again benefited from a flight to safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Plus, how to take advantage of high bond yields right now while keeping a diversified portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Treasury yields climbed as investors sized-up the Fed’s approach ahead of its policy setting meeting at the end of the month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

This adds more stress and vulnerability to agriculture yields.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Sown wheat yields a crop within a few months; a planted almond grows into a nut-bearing tree in three or four years; but a planted acorn may not become productive for a decade or more.

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

Its core equation yielded projections that were better than those of most demographers throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

"Man, imagine 10, 15, 20 years to come, what we going to have," Duwai said after a fishing trip one night yielded only tiny, juvenile fish.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

But an online search for advice about the things needed when starting treatment yielded very little.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

The savings they yielded were likely greater than the entire cost up to that point of the Institute of Peace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Throughout 1915, the Allies launched a succession of attacks that cost thousands of lives and yielded little or no gain.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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 ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Brewers’ bullpen has pitched 9 2/3 innings in the series, yielding just two hits — both off Abner Uribe — and three walks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Rapid nanoparticle growth enabled survival to sizes that efficiently deposit throughout the human respiratory system, yielding inhalation dose rates comparable to or exceeding those from primary combustion sources such as traffic emissions.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

The breakthrough revived the program and led the industry to produce and improve on Compound E, renamed cortisone, yielding medicines such as Merck’s own Decadron.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

As Lawrence machines went, this one was a fiasco, not even yielding substantial or unique knowledge to advance the science of accelerator design.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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