Word: yielding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jamie Greenwald, 30, managing director of global equity derivatives for Merrill Lynch. He reports, with satisfaction, that the Japan index "provides upside in the market in Japan in a domestic instrument, U.S. dollar-based, no currency risk, no downside risk: worst case you've got about a . . . ((pause)) . . . 2.34% yield. That was very applicable to pension funds, to insurance companies, to mutual funds...
...shebang spread to New York City, where banks and brokerage firms hired roomfuls of geniuses and paid them handsome salaries to develop new lines of imaginary products. The geniuses stared up at the ceilings and came down with derivatives, some of which they called ELKS (equity-linked securities), YEELDS (yield-enhanced equity-linked securities) and CHIPS (common-linked higher-income participation securities), as well as LYONS, TIGRS and CMOs. A decade ago, if you wanted to work on Wall Street, you went to business school; but now you can study genetics and end up at Merrill Lynch, where instead...
...possible that your mortgage has been chopped in half -- with the principal portion sold off and bundled up into a P/O, which stands for "principal only," and the I/O, "interest only," going another way. Bond funds use I/O derivatives to add yield to their portfolios and make aggressive bets on the direction of interest rates...
...Place Where the Sea Remembers begins with a wonderful evocation of the sea, as Remedios, a healer-woman, meditates on its shores, contemplating its ability to hold memories of lives past. To make the sea yield up its stories, she touches its saltiness to her tongue, and lets it speak through her in an extended flashback that makes up the novel...
Despite the failure so far to yield the originally projected amount, organizers called the effort an "overwhelming" success...