How to Use inversely in a Sentence
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The yield on the bond (which moves inversely to prices), rose to just over 10%.
—Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2020
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And the higher the prices, the lower the yields, which move inversely.
—Erik Sherman, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2019
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Bond yields move inversely to prices, so if the price of a bond goes up, the yield goes down.
—Anneken Tappe, CNN, 20 June 2019
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Bond prices move inversely to their yields, so when a bond’s price goes up, its yield falls.
—James F. Peltz, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
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Yields went down for 40 years, so bond prices (which move inversely to yields) went up.
—Brett Owens, Forbes, 3 June 2021
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The 10-year Treasury yield, which moves inversely to the bond price, rose to over 2.6 percent last week.
—Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 22 Jan. 2018
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There is an irony that the huge spike in subscribers over a decade has been inversely matched by less depth of choice.
—Angus Finney, Variety, 28 Feb. 2022
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Sensors fitted to the two intact trees and the stump showed that the stump’s flow of sap and water ran inversely to that of the trees.
—The Economist, 25 July 2019
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Bond yields move inversely to prices of both bonds and the precious metal.
—WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
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This, of course, is because many CEFs have been caught up in the selloff, and yields move inversely to prices.
—Michael Foster, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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That’s bad news for the FTSE 100, whose members get about three-quarters of their sales abroad and tend to move inversely to sterling.
—Aleksandra Gjorgievska, Bloomberg.com, 18 Dec. 2017
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Given that bonds and yields move inversely, this rise in yields means that bond prices have fallen.
—T. Rowe Price Contributor, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
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All that buying drives bond prices up, which keeps bond yields down (prices and yield move inversely to each other).
—Ivan Illán, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
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Bond yields — which move inversely to stock prices — sank and metals prices jumped as investors sought safe havens.
—NBC News, 24 Feb. 2022
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Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, eased slightly.
—Will Horner, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
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The draft lottery teams will then be ranked inversely according to their records.
—Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
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These yields, which move inversely to bond prices, are some of the most important rates in global finance.
—WSJ, 15 Aug. 2023
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The price of securities tends to rise or fall inversely with the price of interest.
—Adam Rowe, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
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Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
—Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
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Yields and prices move inversely, with yields rising as investors sell bonds.
—Jared Malsin, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
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Here's a complete list of the longest (and, inversely, shortest) playoff droughts.
—Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
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Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, reached their high in mid-June after the Fed raised the interest rates but then floated downstream.
—Yiwen Lu and Hamza Shaban, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2022
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This is because the value of a preferred stock is inversely tied to interest rates.
—Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
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Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, first fell as markets digested the ECB’s guidance.
—The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
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Stocks move inversely to bond yields at the moment, a sign that investors care far more about the outlook for interest rates than for profits.
—James MacKintosh, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
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High grade government bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have steadily dropped.
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2020
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Bond yields move inversely to prices, and higher yields tend to weigh on the appeal of the noninterest bearing metal.
—WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
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For much of the last half-century, the strength of the U.S. dollar was inversely related to the average price of commodities.
—Jason Bisnoff, Forbes, 28 June 2022
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This can make a big difference: In familiar three-dimensional space, the strength of the electric field produced by a charge is inversely related to the square of the distance from that charge.
—Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
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Gold tends to move inversely to Treasury yields, as higher yields undermine the appeal of the non-interest-bearing precious metal.
—WSJ, 8 Jan. 2024
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