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current yield

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noun

  1. the ratio of the annual interest or dividend to the actual market price of a bond or stock.


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The current yield levels suggest to several market participants that the selloff has potentially gone too far.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The current yield is a bond’s coupon rate divided by its price.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

It pays an annual dividend of 80 cents per share, for a current yield of 0.2%.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Many bond strategists expect Ueda to tweak or abandon the current yield controlling framework, which would push up the benchmark 10-year government yield.

From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2023

The current yield of gold is computed at the rate of seventeen and a half millions sterling per annum.

From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

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