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
• And the higher the prices, the lower the yields, which move inversely.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Yields went down for 40 years, so bond prices (which move inversely to yields) went up.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 3 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bond yields move inversely to prices of both bonds and the precious metal.
  — WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bond yields — which move inversely to stock prices — sank and metals prices jumped as investors sought safe havens.
  — NBC News, 24 Feb. 2022
• Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, eased slightly.
  — Will Horner, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2022
• The draft lottery teams will then be ranked inversely according to their records.
  — Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• These yields, which move inversely to bond prices, are some of the most important rates in global finance.
  — WSJ, 15 Aug. 2023
• The price of securities tends to rise or fall inversely with the price of interest.
  — Adam Rowe, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
• Yields and prices move inversely, with yields rising as investors sell bonds.
  — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• Here's a complete list of the longest (and, inversely, shortest) playoff droughts.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• 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
• This is because the value of a preferred stock is inversely tied to interest rates.
  — Kaitlyn Koterbski, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2022
• Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, first fell as markets digested the ECB’s guidance.
  — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
• 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
• High grade government bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have steadily dropped.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2020
• Bond yields move inversely to prices, and higher yields tend to weigh on the appeal of the noninterest bearing metal.
  — WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024