current yield

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noun

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

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Also called current return .

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How to use current yield in a sentence

Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
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One of its top officials is the current minister of the interior in Baghad.
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She ultimately ditched JSwipe after about a week and found her current, non-Jewish, boyfriend on OkCupid.
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Judging from current figures, there would be a substantial demand for this option, too.
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Under the current president and his predecessor, Jett notes, the ambassadorship of Belize has gone to college roommates.
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Then the enemy's howitzers and field guns had it all their own way, forcing attack to yield a lot of ground.
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But he marred it all by a temper so ungovernable that in Paris there was current a byword, "Explosive as Garnache."
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That—and no existing institution and no current issue—is the primary concern of the present age.
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It has been found, within the current year, impossible to read even a newspaper!
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You fancied, perhaps, I would stand haggling with you all night, and yield at last to your obstinacy.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu