Given the current yield curve, it's an extremely challenging environment for that segment right now. I would be in favor of them selling it at the right time, but the segment probably doesn't have an optimal valuation right now.

Nick Pirsos

Over the past 12 month we have made a series of strategic decisions that have affected short term revenue, but will yield and are already yielding a more profitable portfolio.

Lou Gerstner

If the yield curve inverts, that is bad because banks will not lend money at rates lower than their borrowing costs. It's as simple as that and the economy will slow down naturally.

Michael Cheah

We have reduced our inventory capacity approximately 20%, and thus we have to continue to focus on increasing our yield per minute. We are building a new 30-second marketplace, which continues to move forward, albeit more slowly than we would hope. We are also hoping for a more robust radio and advertising environment that has not materialized yet.

Mark Mays

Full, open deliberations can yield a better result for all of North Carolina, ... State taxpayers deserve full accountability of how the state spends their money.

Roy Cooper

Many growers in Illinois think they do not have a problem, when they are actually suffering some significant yield losses. If they are only getting 50 or 60 bushels per acre, they almost certainly should have some major concerns. With today's high-yielding resistant varieties, farmers should be getting 70 to 85 bushels per acre.

Terry Niblack

A rate increase at the March meeting is a done deal. We expect the yield on the 10-year to reach 4.75 percent.

Gary Pollack

In our case, we like a longer season variety. The index showed that with a starter, we'd likely get a yield boost in just one year out of eight. We figured we'd have a better chance of getting higher yields by focusing on getting our entire crop planted earlier.

Blake Heller

They're going to be borrowing more money at the shorter part of the yield curve. Is that going to push short-term rates higher? It's pretty fair to say that's going to happen.

Bill Hornbarger

He possessed an uncommon passion for our craft and was always eager to share his storehouse of knowledge with colleagues. He inspired us as he refused to yield to the effects of his disease and continued his tireless work ethic until recent weeks. He leaves us with many fond memories of his unforgettable character. And for that, I know, we are all grateful to have been touched by his life.

Skip Perez

We're not likely to get the bond yield moving through that 4.75 percent level until we get past all this turmoil that is now in the market.

Wayne Angell

I don't think it's a big deal at all, unless you're invested in high yield.

Jim Lowell

High-yield bonds are looking pretty attractive.

Margaret Patel

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

The world has been priced for bad news economically which just isn't coming through. The low yield environment might not be right.

Harry Harrison

So, utilizing yield potential to dictate nitrogen recommendations may not be the most effective method, especially when nitrogen costs are high. Historically, we've treated excess nitrogen as cheap crop insurance. While it was then, that's not the case anymore.

Robert Mullen

Considering the strong demand among people in the market, 10-year yield won't stay above 1.6 percent for a long time. Even if it reaches it, it won't probably hold for a long time.

Akihiko Inoue

With current gene therapy, it's possible to switch genes on and off, but you don't really know if you are affecting other parts and processes of the cell as well. You may be able to get a plant cell to produce a certain desired product, but the yield may drop significantly.

Victor Lin

This rigorous, data-based, economic approach to developing N rate guidelines provides an excellent platform for the future as technological advances come along, including new, higher yielding hybrids.

Gyles Randall

The entire movement in yield has been accounted for by a change in inflation expectations.

David Goldman

Grudge no expense, yield to no opposition and forget fatigue till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love overcomes.

Maria W. Chapman

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days.

Jane Grey

The market remains buoyant on prospects of further hikes from the Fed. It's a yield story.

Kamal Sharma

If you want to be in the stock market, go for a yield vehicle. Go for something that is defensive and has a yield - a bank, insurance company, a REIT [real estate investment trust] or international oil - something, ... that might actually make you money.

Charles Clough

These organizations have demonstrated their ability to deliver high-quality services to residents of Lancaster County, Fort Lawn and Great Falls. We are confident that these grants will yield significant benefits.

Jim Morton

I've planted in 30-in. rows, 7-in rows, and even experimented with solid seeding and disking the crop in. After all that, I came to the conclusion that I needed to be in 15-in. rows to hit maximum yield potential.

Aaron Smith

Stoddard, while passing a slower moving truck to the left, failed to yield the right of way to an oncoming tractor trailer rig hauling dirt.

Rocky Gonzalez

We asked how long they had been planting resistant soybean varieties, and we found that 85 to 92 percent of producers currently plant SCN-resistant beans. Producers are losing yield, but they're not attributing the loss to SCN because they are growing resistant beans and don't think they have a problem.

Bob Heinz

The U.S. economy is doing okay and you have global growth doing fairly well. That's encouraging yields higher. A 5 percent yield in 10-year Treasuries represents fair value.

Grant Hassell

A 10-year yield near 5 percent offers value. Yields have risen quite quickly over the past few weeks.

Hiroyuki Yamada

The Arafat-Clinton summit is critical because it will show whether we are moving towards a summit which might yield an agreement or whether we are moving towards deadlock, which will lead to confrontation.

Chemi Shalev

We haven't seen a noticeable drop out of Asia, Asia accounts are probably going out a little further on the yield curve.

John Radwanski

If interest rates aren't going any higher for a little while, then that will probably help make the Link REIT yield slightly more attractive.

Justin Pascoe

We expect Live2Air to actually enhance yield by attracting new guests.

Virgin Blue

We're seeing a bubble bursting in the bond market. It was way overdone; there was really no justification for bonds being at [such a low] yield.

Jim Bianco

We've probably cut our yield in half already. It just doesn't look real appealing right now.

Mark Ploger

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

Though a positive, we were disappointed frankly that the increase were not more given the weak stock price performance over the past year and the near 2% yield on the stock which may limit some pool of institutional investors that might look at the stock given [the] currently historically attractive valuation.

Scott Flower

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve centre of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

Howard Thurman

If it comes up soft, I don't think I'd run her. Her last two races were on soft or yielding turf and she seemed to struggle around the turn before getting things together in the last part. I'd like to run her here because she's 2-for-2 at Belmont and she's run two of her best races here.

Jimmy Toner

Our collaboration with the leaders in the Common Platform -- IBM and Chartered -- aligns industry breadth and depth to address the complexity of design facing our customers today. This 90-nanometer low-power and yield-aware reference flow is the next step in our ongoing design chain collaboration to enable customers to ramp high-quality products to volume through the Common Platform.

Jan Willis

I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Beryl Markham

While market participants are focusing on the recession signal associated with an inverted yield curve, consumers are feeling more confident about the economy heading into 2006.

Michelle Girard

Asset liability matching demand from pension funds will support the longer end and assuming the ECB hikes rates aggressively, we might see a flat yield curve by April.

Kornelius Purps

The weather was as passive as we're going to see it here, ever. The golf course would yield if you played well. Jay Haas played beautifully and had an incredible round.

Raymond Floyd

We selected RSI ID Technologies because of the high-yield rate on their tags, customized intelligent antenna design, strict quality control standards and the capability to expand its technology to meet our increasing tag levels. For us, performance and price were the key factors in selecting a RFID label supplier.

Gary Clement

The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.

Joseph Goebbels

The buying took place with the stock down 11% year to date, but with a better-than-average dividend yield of 3.9%, which isn't a bad dividend to get if you're waiting for the stock to go up.

John Kozey

Say the RBNZ cuts interest rates three times, which most agree would be aggressive, you still have New Zealand interest rates above 6 percent. In an environment of yield, that will still offer the New Zealand dollar support.

Adrian Foster

The impact of day-to-day changes in the yield spread remain significant for the Australian dollar. Some people are building in the case for a rate cut in Australia by year-end so that's clearly an issue for the Australian dollar.

John Rothfield

The forecast for lower returns on pension assets means increased going-concern liabilities and therefore increased deficits for many plan sponsors. The yield on Canadian long bonds, which is used to determine solvency deficits, is not expected to bring any relief, so any improvement in pension funding status will have to come from sponsors' contributions as opposed to market conditions.

Ian Markham

The U.S. economy is still robust and inflation, though modest, is certainly something the Fed needs to be cautious about going forward. If the data remains strong, we could see easily see 4.75 percent on the 10-year yield by the next Fed meeting.

Peter Scobie

It is intuitive that higher corn yields will result in greater nitrogen demand from the soil, but does that translate into higher nitrogen demand? Investigation of nitrogen rate studies conducted over several years reveals that there is not a strong relationship between maximum yield potential and the amount of nitrogen needed to achieve maximum yield.

Robert Mullen

The secure and reliable operation of the .com registry and the DNS are too important to the international and Internet community to be placed at risk by delaying the approval of the proposed .com registry agreement or yielding to the threats of a few who may be willing to place their interests ahead of those of the larger Internet community.

Stratton Sclavos

The Fed is going to raise rates tomorrow, so it makes sense for the two-year yield to rise to 4.75 percent or higher.

Alex Li

When a deal is this large the yield tends to be muted.

Dan Mccarthy

Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Sir Winston Churchill

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Colin Lundgren

Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein

We doubt the market pays 27 times estimated 2006 earnings and 24.5 times estimated 2007 earnings for a dividend yield that remains low.

Melanie Flouquet

This is unlikely to be a significant negative for the dollar. They're unlikely to start moving heavily out of dollars as U.S. assets still yield more than in Europe or other countries.

Tony Norfield

Investors are buying back into telecoms, which have upside potential after being the worst sector performer last year in Europe, and offer a nice dividend yield.

Guenter Senftleben

The U.S. Treasury market will outperform their European counterparts. The yield spread is making Treasuries more attractive.

Akira Takei

With the flattening yield curve affecting loan income, BB&T has taken prudent steps to raise their fee-based income in several divisions, most notably in insurance and investment banking.

Mike Raab

It was the guy's fault. He had a stop sign and he failed to yield. Never saw them coming.

Bob Henderson

They do not want to see any government regulations or control because it limits the profitability. The free market is not doing anything to yield more affordable housing.

Jack Mccabe

Some traders are locking in profits from their bets on a reduction in the yield difference. They may be thinking that the market has already priced in the likely level of Bank of Japan rate increases this year.

Norihisa Takao

These and other potential health effects yield a classic risk-risk trade-off.

Joshua Cohen

It has no ability to develop new knowledge through hypothesis testing, modification of the original theory based on experimental results and renewed testing through more refined experiments that yield still more refinements and insights.

Hunter Rawlings

Operating with a flat yield-curve environment is tough on every bank, but Wells is positioned well compared to its peers.

Fred Cannon

They're reporting significant loss but we've seen a very good recovery in demand from the business traveller and that's high yield.

Peter Hilton

Most investors will view the Link REIT as largely a yield play, with some potential upside through rental increases.

Justin Pascoe

A hawkish tone is already priced into the markets, both in the yield curve and on the currency. It was the big event risk of the week and he did live up to market expectations.

Jack Spitz

1507 maize can help farmers protect their seed investment by minimizing the risk of insect damage, while maximizing the yield performance of Pioneer's superior seed products.

Dean Oestreich

The market is not only based on yield, but also on growth. The market is anticipating that profit growth is going to improve.

Chris Reilly

We suggest you decline an invitation to a civil commitment ceremony. So many Christians are yielding on this part.

Melissa Fryrear

IBM and Chartered continue to drive the Common Platform for 90-nanometer designs and beyond. We worked closely with Cadence to enable a low-power, yield-aware design methodology to reduce design and manufacturing risk. This next phase in the design chain collaboration with Cadence expands our open ecosystem based on collaborative innovation.

Steve Longoria

Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

Sarah Moore Grimké

Experience in other countries shows ... that governments can undertake efforts that can yield substantial reduction in enterprise fairly quickly.

Robert Holleyman

We have initiated a number of counter-offers in the spirit of good faith negotiations. Lifetime will not yield on the forced carriage of Lifetime Movie Network on expanded basic as well as the forced addition of Lifetime Real Women to digital basic.

Jeffrey Mills

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

Barbara Hepworth

They're going to lose some of these customers. If they can solve their problems by September, the problem will be limited. If it goes past September, they'll have trouble winning back the higher yielding customers.

Ray Neidl

Just switching to low-fat foods is not likely to yield much health benefit in most women. Rather than trying to eat 'low-fat,' women should focus on reducing saturated fats and trans fats.

Marcia Stefanick

This is not a high-yielding fund relative to its category. The median yield of the utility funds we cover is 2.4 percent, while this one yields 1.7 percent.

David Kathman

Some things we can yield on, and some we can't. We have to build everywhere, and we have to maintain equity.

Pat Herron

BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

Ambrose Bierce

If yield continues to rise and stays at a higher level, bonds may become relatively attractive for some investors, which will hurt liquidity.

Young Chang

The guide to action will help us avoid recreating the wheel. We look forward to learning from the experiences of other states what works and which policies yield the biggest bang for the buck.

Sara Ward

There are areas of weakness. It seems growth is difficult for banks, which I would attribute to a flat yield curve and higher funding costs.

Mark Batty

The yield curve is reflecting too pessimistic an outlook on the economy. The market will just have to be convinced otherwise.

Ted Wieseman

XM Canada's choice of award-winning radios at retailers has resulted in our winning a greater portion of the Canadian satellite radio market, and when combined with increasing factory installations by our automotive partners, I am confident that these two streams will yield strong year-end results.

Stephen Tapp

I wouldn't be so naive to say that sometimes the yield doesn't come into play. I don't know [that] that's a bad thing. If you can't increase your yield, the prices become exorbitant, and people are priced right out of the market.

Steve Booth

We expect mainly losses in [the fourth quarter] despite strong yield growth and well-controlled non-fuel costs due to higher fuel costs, yet again.

David Strine

The upside should be sustainable due to its attractive yield.

Kenny Tang

I'm willing to hold off completely on any kind of plan to clone a human, but I'm not willing to hold off on research that could yield enormous therapeutic benefit.

Jerome Kassirer

Will the gentleman yield?

Sheila Jackson Lee

In a low-yield environment, there was a lot of interest in high-yield markets such as the Icelandic. But with yields on the rise in Europe and the U.S., we want to see a lot more quality before we feel comfortable investing, as high yields alone are no longer enough.

Lars Christensen

The conservative movement has a healthy skepticism of governmental power, but at times, unfortunately, that healthy skepticism needs to yield.

Viet Dinh

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return.

Alex Lowe

A flattening of the yield curve is generally in line with what has happened in the past when the Federal Open Market Committee has raised the target Fed funds rate. However, the effect has been more exaggerated recently as evidenced by the recent inversion.

Michael Decker

It's a different story when the two-year is yielding 7 percent and the 10-year is at 6.5 percent -- those are restrictive for the economy.

Jim Caron

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Mark Akenside

We see buying opportunities. On a purely yield basis, we prefer Treasuries over European bonds. The spread will continue to widen.

Tadashi Tsukaguchi

The yield on the lead 20-year debt rose a bit as some investors cut long positions after making hefty purchases last week but overall sentiment appeared to be generally bullish.

Ryutaro Matsuyama

We're returning to the structure we had at the beginning of the first term. All that changes is that the management of the day-to-day policy process will be put under Joel. Karl will keep the high-yield strategic role that he's always had.

Nicolle Wallace

There was volume growth, but these results were driven by yield improvement and operating-margin improvement. We also saw productivity gain and more packages moved per employee.

Donald Broughton

You're going to see the tech sector grow in high yield. Anyone (tech company) whose market cap is under $20 billion could be an LBO candidate.

Conrad Smith

It's yielding 6 percent, trading at 10 times FFO [funds from operation, the standard measure of REIT cash flow], it's diversified and I think you'll see 5 percent to 10 percent annual growth in FFO.

Ken Heebner

She failed to yield to traffic.

Trish Hoffman

It's likely to be another difficult year for the rand. As the yield gap narrows, that will make it more difficult for South Africa to attract the investment it needs.

Carsten Fritsch

Is it always economical to shoot for maximum yield? Research has shown that it's not. It may take the same amount of nitrogen to reach 179 bushels per acre as it does to only reach 170 bushels per acre. It's impossible to determine at what point the nitrogen level is reached to where it is no longer a benefit to gain more yield without a nitrogen rate trial in every field.

Robert Mullen

The risk-reward ratio for longer maturity fixed income is just not attractive with the current yield curve. Cash yields are now up to more than 4% and longer-term treasury bonds yields remain below 5%.

Randy Lert

When things are not looking good you have to go for defensive elements like strong balance sheet, high dividend yield and domestic plays.

Nicholas Yeo

He had quite a bit of rust infection in his field, but he still made a reasonably good yield.

Billy Moore

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.

Elizabeth Ii

I do see the Bank of Canada looking to raise rates, and the converging yield curve between Canada and the United States will continue to underpin the Canadian dollar.

Jack Spitz

Avoid buying the highest-yielding stock in any one particular group, for that is often indication the market has beaten down the shares on fears of a dividend cut. It's better to buy something with more modest current yield and a good track record of increasing dividends.

Joseph Lisanti

Just 30 minutes after our principals got the results, they were already developing strategies to yield better scores. This is stuff that will be fun, exciting and encouraging.

Richard Bentley

Bonds at these yield levels offer very little value. Inflation is low but it's not that low to justify bond buying, especially given the U.S. economy is not slowing at a fast pace. Stocks offer a much better value.

Edgar Peters

At this level, global funds may start to move their bond holdings back to neutral, and the earnings yield ratios of the S&P 500 and MSCI World will move closer to the normal level, bonds no longer expensive or equities no longer cheap on a relative basis.

Eddie Wong

People were buying thinking they'd rent it out and make 15 or 20 percent appreciation, but now they're left with only the rental yield.

Ed Stansfield

A good bond fund, like a high yield fund, has less credit risk and less interest rate risks -- and a good manager will add value.

Eric Jacobson

The financials bottomed out in mid-October. Now everybody and their sister is saying they've got to buy them. There's a perception that the yield on the 10-year note is not going that much higher.

Elliot Spar

The reduction in the yield differential is a negative for the rand. With the rand being strong so recently, some people may be speculating about a cut in South African rates.

Elisabeth Gruie

[Government officials say assistance for victims is a priority, and that steps have been taking to streamline the payment process. And they also say the storm will yield new jobs and opportunity.] In the recovery will come restoration and rebuilding, ... After a national disaster, there is an expanded burst of new construction activity.

Elaine Chao

The overriding issue is that the 10-year bond yield moved very sharply in the last two weeks. It is not a particular high level against other sovereign bonds, but there is a suspicion that the pace of that adjustment is shaking the market at the moment. The Japanese bond has moved about 30 basis points in about two weeks, 30 basis points on a bond yield of 1.5% is a big move.

Edward Bonsor

CSX's report shows steady improvement on the cost side and it continues to benefit from the strong yield environment that all the rails are seeing. However, the vast majority of the upside in the quarter was driven by gains on sales and we don't expect estimates to rise as fast for CSX as some of the other rails.

Edward Wolfe