The difference between the return on government-issued securities and that on ordinary shares.
Example sentencesExamples
- December 28 - Bloomberg: ‘The average yield gap between Peru's dollar-denominated foreign bonds and U.S. Treasuries fell to a record low today as the country's economic expansion lured investors to its securities.’
- Tuesday's yield gap was the widest in seven years.
- The increasing demand may be a sign that investors are expecting economic conditions to improve and the yield gap between low and middle-dated investment grade bonds and gilts to narrow.
- Whatever happened to the reverse yield gap?
- The net result of this is that the yield gap has narrowed slightly between Great Britain and the North.