I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
succumb/yield to temptation formal (= give in to temptation )
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Lorna succumbed to temptation and ordered the apple pie.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
benefit
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For a high inflation country, the ability occasionally to devalue its currency is important and its exercise can yield benefits .
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In short, here is a service which yields substantial benefits but for which the market would allocate no resources.
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Fourth, the elimination of exchange rate uncertainty is likely to yield benefits in terms of higher growth rates of intra-union trade and investment.
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But businesses in the United States are discovering that a homegrown version of work-based learning can yield benefits .
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In spite of this tendency towards complexity, some authorities have suggested that a simpler approach may yield benefits .
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In the short run, artful centrism clearly yields political benefits .
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Small changes in behaviour can yield huge benefits .
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Spreading the philosophy of quality improvement among our suppliers will also yield enormous benefits .
crop
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We can model how crop yields might vary with temperature.
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He pored over geography books in the Richmond library, searching for information on climate, soil conditions, and crop yields .
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Given the benefits of less fertiliser, liming and ploughing costs and better crop yields it is little wonder.
government
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In the face of some trenchantly expressed disapproval from the Conservative benches, the Government refused to yield .
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These securities, backed by the U.S. government , recently yielded 1.6 percent more than 30-year bonds.
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The government would not yield to pressure, she promised.
information
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In the laboratory only reactants and products can generally be obtained, yielding little information about the nature of a reaction pathway.
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However, a study of work-inhibited students' standardized achievement tests yielded dramatic information .
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So spectroscopy can yield information on plasma temperatures.
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These photographs refuse to yield information .
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Some discreet enquiries there yielded the information that fitzAlan was about to take Tracy, leaving his new wife at home.
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Your enquiries should, again, yield positive information about the existence or otherwise of mains drains.
insight
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Work with other organisms should yield some insight into the likely outcome.
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Such an examination can yield further insights into how gender informs self-constituting and meaning-producing activity 7.
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The focus on performance and work yielded additional insights about specific behavior and skill changes.
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Even where a general model is not available, however, study of special cases can still yield useful insights .
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Some skepticism from Summerlee not withstanding, the station has already yielded useful insights .
pressure
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This is not a reason why district ethics committees should yield to pressure to abdicate their responsibilities to local citizens.
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At some point, he yielded to the pressure .
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It should not casually diminish these hard-won gains by yielding to the pressures and temptations of the day.
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She yields to his pressure and obscures her political statements by bursting into tears.
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The government would not yield to pressure , she promised.
price
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Higher house prices mean lower rental yields because rent becomes a smaller proportion of the purchase price.
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Stocks also benefited from a rebound in Treasury bond prices that drove yields lower.
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Bonds with greater duration experience greater price movements as yields fluctuate.
profit
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Privilege parking places yield little profit , while special perks can precipitate horrendous losses.
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Sales less cost of sales yields a gross profit of $ 350.
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Certainly the struggle for overseas investment opportunities provoked tensions; and small colonial wars could yield large profits .
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The answer is that firms will want to use the most efficient technique because it yields the greatest profit .
rate
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Further questions which yielded a success rate of less than 50 percent for the middle third of the pupils are now considered.
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The latter question will yield a higher participation rate than the former, since it picks up infrequent participation.
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From the literature it is not clear whether prolongation of therapy beyond four months yield a higher response rate .
result
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Hoomey could bloody well suffer, if it yielded results .
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Unfortunately, this comedy of errors rarely yields funny results .
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The investigation, he concluded without surprise, yielded negative results .
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In contemporary matters, Shoumatoff yields better results .
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It is also far more likely than a reactive search to yield positive results .
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Obviously, the eyes are colored by some simple rule that yields the results you have seen.
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Studies of homoeopathic remedies in relation to prostaglandin metabolism may therefore yield interesting and fruitful results .
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This method does not always yield a unique result .
return
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A car is highly illiquid, but yields a high return to the owner.
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Mailed questionnaires are inexpensive but yield a low return in terms of mail-back from respondents.
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Sport can possess the characteristic of a capital good, one that yields a return as part of a market production process.
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Y may be sold short and the proceeds invested in X yielding a riskless return for no investment.
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Noise/horror strikes me as a limited form of self-destruction, that can only yield diminishing returns .
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Partly for that reason, too many projects yield poor returns .
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The government and housing divisions were said to have yielded the lowest returns and action is promised to boost their performance.
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Casting wider for other presidential candidates does not yield a healthy return .
temptation
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A solution presents itself: the book will not yield to the hectic temptations , the seductions of the fevered imagination.
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Nor does it yield to the temptation to manipulate performance and financial data in a way that obscures hard truths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A search of Mann's home yielded a pair of bloody gloves.
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Each of these fields could yield billions of barrels of oil.
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Government securities have traditionally yielded less than stocks.
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The military has promised to yield power after legislators draw up a new constitution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bonds due 2026 yield 5. 65 %.
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But so urgent was getting the planer working that this time Taylor yielded.
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Different standards of significance will naturally yield different theories - sets of laws relating significant descriptions.
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He yielded as before, and very soon the two wicked women arrived, with their plot carefully worked out.
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Teaching well takes time and often yields little tangible reward.
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To the persistent seeker the Bible yields more and more of its riches.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
annual
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A zero's equivalent annual yield will typically range from about 7.5 per cent to 9 per cent.
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Your annual yield would increase from what I estimate to be a current $ 3, 871 to $ 8, 545.
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The sign-flags showed the average annual yields .
average
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They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
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On five-year jumbos, the average yield fell to 5. 22 % from 5. 26 %, according to BanxQuote.
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Tobacco industry Government policy also favours a progressive lowering of average yields of tar in all cigarettes.
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On five-year jumbos, the average yield fell to 5. 26 % from 5. 30 %, BanxQuote said.
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The average seven-day simple yield dropped to 5. 15 % from 5. 16 %.
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The average yield dropped to 7. 4 % from 8. 7 % at the beginning of the year.
current
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The overall return is then given by which exceeds the current yield by 4.93 percent.
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Suppose investors believe that the one year holding period yield of bonds is above the current short-term yield.
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The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
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It would not comment on either its current yield or its backlog.
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It has a duration of 12 years and the current yield to maturity is 10 percent.
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The Eurotrack 100 yields about 3.1 percent, which exceeds the current yield of the trust's portfolio.
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From this we can determine current yields .
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If the current yield is 5 percent, the post-April yield could be 4.69 percent.
equivalent
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A zero's equivalent annual yield will typically range from about 7.5 per cent to 9 per cent.
gross
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The current gross yield is about 5.46 percent gross.
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The expected gross initial yield is 6.5%.
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Initial gross yield is estimated at 6.6%.
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At the initial offer price for the unit trust of 50p, the estimated gross yield is 6.25%.
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They range from 8.10 percent to 9.68 percent and the weighted average gross yield is over 8.5 percent.
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For example, Treasury 10.5% 1999 at present commands a price of £104 15/16 to give a gross redemption yield of 10.01%.
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The net redemption yield is lower than the gross redemption yield.
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Estimated gross yield at 100p is 4.5% a year.
high
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These high yields can be tempting but dangerous.
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Investors are snapping up asset-backed bonds because they offer a higher yield than Treasury securities without much more risk.
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So returns will be more stable on a share with a higher dividend yield , other things being equal.
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Several predicted that they will be reap higher yields and profits while saving their soil.
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Endoscopy has the highest yield for any of the tests performed.
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Welfare commissioners, labor secretaries, commerce department staffers-all can shift resources into areas of higher productivity and yield .
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All of these reactions give high yields and are often quantitative.
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Soviero joined Fidelity in 1989 as a high yield analyst.
low
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Poorly managed and with low yields , it was propped up with a huge loan from the estate's trustees.
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The critical handicap under which she laboured, however, appears to have been the low yield of the land.
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But low hydrogen yields and poisoned catalysts soon had these systems grinding to a halt.
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Note that eurobonds are unlikely to attract tax exempt investors such as pension funds, given the lower yield associated with bearer status.
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Normally, however, ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights.
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As breed numbers are now critically low , reliable yield figures are unavailable, but its dairy potential could still be exploited.
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A lower dividend yield can be compensated for with higher capital gains and viceversa.
maximum
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Stocks are now believed to be below the level which would allow the predicted maximum yield of 175,000 tonnes per year.
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The optimum yield is not necessarily the theoretical yield or even the maximum possible yield.
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In general, the aim of fisheries advisers is to establish the maximum sustainable yield for each prey species.
■ NOUN
bond
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Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark.
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The markets are sending the opposite message to the Fed. Bond yields are above the federal funds rate of 8.25%.
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A fall in bond yields , which move inversely to bond prices, make stocks a more attractive investment compared with bonds.
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Bonds soared, as the 10-year government bond yield fell 9 basis points to 8. 24.
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Banks fell as benchmark 30-year Treasury bond yields climbed to 6. 17 percent from 6. 04 percent Monday.
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Financial stocks dropped on concern that Treasury bonds yields are headed up, squeezing banks profit margins.
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Benchmark 30-year bond yields dipped to 6. 15 percent from 6. 19 percent yesterday.
crop
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With cross-breeding, they improve crop yields and increase resistance to pests and disease.
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The forecast is not entirely gloomy. Crop yields will improve dramatically as vegetation thrives on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.
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Pesticide use was reduced by 65 percent in the first year whilst crop yields increased.
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Plantations plantations had an excellent year with increased crop yields and improved prices for its produce.
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Tax was levied on the land regardless of crop yield , and an average family could hardly break even.
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Milk yields , crop yields and food conversion rates were all similar to those of the better farms in Britain.
curve
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But the yield curve is abnormally steep.
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Each category of debt will have its own yield curve relationships.
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The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
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Exhibit 9. 1 shows the so-called normal yield curve , where long-term rates are higher than short-term rates.
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That steep yield curve has turned into political temptation.
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A positive yield curve represents the normal condition of the capital markets.
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But a flat yield curve implies that the yields to maturity of all bonds should be identical.
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Exhibit 9. 2 shows a negative yield curve .
dividend
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If the dividend yield is 4 percent perannum, then the quarterly dividend payment is 1 percent.
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The Dow dividend yield is 1. 95 percent, a record low.
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But for the basic rate taxpayer, the problem of annual management charges eroding a diminished dividend yield remains.
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The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
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These summary measures are earnings per share, the price-earnings ratio and the dividend yield .
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This is not the same as the most commonly used measure of dividends: the dividend yield .
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The net dividend yield is defined as, using Table 6.2.
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You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
milk
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The emphasis is on beef but its milk yield remains adequate and it can still be considered a dual-purpose type.
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It can also cause a reduced milk yield , thus making the pups cry, creating yet more stress.
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The biggest factor in calf performance is the milk yield of the dam.
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Poor farmers value an animal not by growth rate or milk yield , but by its ability to survive and reproduce.
redemption
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The running yield is currently 8.24 per cent, with a redemption yield of 6.87 per cent.
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Perpetual Monthly Income Plus contains some equity, and the redemption yield is currently 9.24 per cent.
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But the redemption yield will be worth something only if there is enough money in the kitty to pay out on maturity.
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For example, Treasury 10.5% 1999 at present commands a price of £104 15/16 to give a gross redemption yield of 10.01%.
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In the case of Treasury 9¾ percent stock 2002 the redemption yield , at end-February 1992, was 9.27%.
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The net redemption yield is lower than the gross redemption yield.
■ VERB
calculate
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It is then often necessary to calculate the percentage yield .
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You calculate the dividend yield by dividing the annual dividend by the market price of a stock.
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So far, we have calculated the yield to maturity on the basis of semi-annual discounting of semiannual coupon payments.
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But eurobonds make annual payments, and the appropriate method of calculating the yield to maturity is to use annual discounting.
drive
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That prospect drove the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond down 18 points this week.
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Bonds climbed for a third day, driving the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond below 6 percent.
expect
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When a firm buys a new machine, it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost.
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The stockholders' expected rate of return has two components-an expected dividend yield and an expected capital gain.
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Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds? 2.
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Normally, however, ordinary shareholders expect lower yields than preference shareholders and loan stock holders because of their participation rights.
fall
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Crop yields would fall as a result of shorter growing periods, and reduced solar radiation due to heavier cloud cover.
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On Friday, the yield fell as low as 6. 16 percent before settling at 6. 29 percent.
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Consequently bond prices were rising and their yields were falling .
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The five-year yield fell 1 basis point to 6. 89 percent.
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Some long-dated stocks closed nearly four full points higher with yields falling to just over 9 p.c.
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Bond yields are also falling , in the expectation that deflation will persist well into the future.
increase
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Poor farmers can not afford expensive modern technologies that could increase their yields .
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They also intend to increase yields by providing tractors, pumps and other machinery with their project aid.
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Duration increases as coupon and yield decrease as shown in Fig. 5.14.
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That they will increase yields and therefore benefit farmers economically at a time of considerable financial uncertainty.
produce
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A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields.
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Desert land, meanwhile, produces smaller yields than the rich farmland lost to housing.
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Otherwise, the soil was rapidly exhausted and wheat produced no yield .
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A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is thus 100% efficient.
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At least the rain has produced reasonably good yields on our light, drought-prone, barley land.
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Chemical reactions which do not produce quantitative yields are sometimes called non-stoichiometric processes.
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The difference between short and long rates has produced a yield curve that has rarely been steeper.
push
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Falling bond prices pushed yields on 30-year Treasury bonds to 6. 19 % from 6. 04 % the day before.
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The benchmark 30-year bond fell about 7 / 8, pushing the yield up to 6. 17 percent.
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Treasuries continued rising in Tokyo, pushing the yield to its lowest since Jan. 9.
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Bond prices jump, pushing the yield on the 30-year Treasury below 6 % for the first time since late 1993.
raise
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Towards the end of the decade, with elections looming, land distribution decreased in favour of greater emphasis on raising agricultural yields .
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The tax should raise high and reliable yields . 5.
reduce
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Despite this, rampant pests and diseases reduce yields to half the world average.
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The higher demand would raise the market price of the asset and thereby reduce the yield .
rise
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The yield , assuming dividends rise to 14.4p, is 5.6 p.c.
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It had planned to sell the bonds today, underwriters said, but decided to wait because yields have risen recently.
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The yield has risen 12 basis points this week.
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The five-year yield rose 5 basis points to 6. 59 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 22% fall in this year's cotton yield
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If you invest the money now, the yield after only twelve months will be $3160.
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investments with high yields
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We have calculated the probable yield from this investment at around 17%.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After many hours the yield still may not be acceptable.
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Chemical reactions which do not produce quantitative yields are sometimes called non-stoichiometric processes.
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However, the situation may change if inflation rises; under those circumstances fixed yields become unattractive. 2.
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So returns will be more stable on a share with a higher dividend yield , other things being equal.
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The implied yield was 6. 15 percent a week ago.
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The running yield is currently 8.24 per cent, with a redemption yield of 6.87 per cent.