How to Use inversely in a Sentence

inversely

adverb
  • 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 yields move inversely to prices, and a basis point is equal to 0.01%.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Yields and bond prices move inversely – as yields rise, bond prices fall.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields move inversely to prices.
    — Sean Conlon,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 17 Mar. 2025
  • One basis point is equal to 0.01%, and yields move inversely to prices.
    — Brian Evans,sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Yields and prices moved inversely to each other, and one basis point equals 0.01%.
    — Sean Conlon,karen Gilchrist, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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 10-year Treasury yield often moves inversely with stock prices.
    — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Survival was also inversely correlated with the degree to which the tumor was connected to the rest of the brain.
    — Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Protests against ownership are generally inversely correlated with the form of the team.
    — Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic, 16 Feb. 2025

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