How to Use inversely in a Sentence

inversely

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  • Yields and bond prices move inversely – as yields rise, bond prices fall.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Bond yields move inversely to prices.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 24 June 2026
  • Bond prices and yields move inversely.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 15 May 2026
  • Yields move inversely to prices.
    Sean Conlon,fred Imbert, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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, so when prices rise, yields fall, and vice versa.
    Michelle Fox, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The yield on the bond (which moves inversely to prices), rose to just over 10%.
    Stephen Gandel, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Yields went down for 40 years, so bond prices (which move inversely to yields) went up.
    Brett Owens, Forbes, 3 June 2021
  • Bond yields move inversely to prices of both bonds and the precious metal.
    WSJ, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Since bond yields move inversely to prices, a rise in yields signals falling bond prices.
    CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And the higher the prices, the lower the yields, which move inversely.
    Erik Sherman, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Yields and prices move inversely, with yields rising as investors sell bonds.
    Jared Malsin, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Bond prices plummeted, which meant yields (which move inversely to prices) shot up.
    Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Aug. 2021
  • Bond yields — which move inversely to stock prices — sank and metals prices jumped as investors sought safe havens.
    NBC News, 24 Feb. 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
  • The draft lottery teams will then be ranked inversely according to their records.
    Roy Parry, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Yields and prices move inversely to one another.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2025
  • During the course of the conflict, gold has traded inversely to both oil prices and the greenback.
    Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • The speed of the production ramp is inversely proportionate to how many new parts and steps there are.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • On secondary markets, prices and yields move inversely to one another.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • The 10-year Treasury yield often moves inversely with stock prices.
    Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 7 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Since the beginning of the war, equities and oil have largely traded inversely.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Throughout the Iran war, metals prices have remained largely volatile and tended to trade inversely with oil prices, which largely spiked during the conflict.
    Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026

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