The shortage of municipal bonds had pushed the yields on long-term bonds earlier this week to their lowest yield ratio as a percentage of Treasuries since May 1995.
12.
Investors also fled tax-exempt bond funds, pushing the yield ratio to taxable securities higher amid concern that the value of existing securities could fall if reform made them less attractive.
13.
The feedstock-to-yield ratio for sugarbeet is 56 : 9 . Therefore, it takes 6.22 kg of sugar beet to produce 1 kg of ethanol ( approximately 1.27 l at room temperature ).
14.
But they may have information only on the nose cones and the weight-to-yield ratios of four of the seven weapons, two of which are no longer in the American arsenal, the intelligence analysts say.
15.
The idea that the latter activity could come from a transfer reaction and thus not be from element 105 was said to be diminished by the fact that the yield ratio for this reaction was lower than that of the 242mf Am-producing transfer reaction.
16.
Purvis, who had already introduced the macadamia nut from Australia, recognized the potential benefits to finding a species of tree that would thrive in the land above the sugarcane, and the bark of the cinchona he imported from Ceylon had a promising yield ratio between bark and quinine.
17.
"A record $ 46 billion in municipal coupon and redemption proceeds are schedule to roll in this month, " said Michael S . Appelbaum, senior vice president of investments at Paine Webber Inc . He said investors seeking reinvestment strategies should note the attractive municipal to Treasury yield ratios prevailing in today's fixed income markets.
18.
This thermal effect implies that measurements of current and voltage that are taken over sufficiently short periods of time will yield ratios of V / I that fluctuate from the value of R implied by the time average or ensemble average of the measured current; Ohm's law remains correct for the average current, in the case of ordinary resistive materials.
19.
The prospect that Labour could win at the next general election, which has to be held no later than May 1997, may distort the yield ratio because Labour's policies are likely to have greater impact on companies than bonds . q " Macro-policies are likely to be largely the same under Labour, but micro-policies could change, " said David Walton, an economist at Goldman Sachs.
