1.   Government revenues fell as the slump reduced taxation yields, while public spending rose as unemployment benefit payments rocketed.

2.   An interest rate cut would likely hurt the Australian dollar as it would reduce the yield on deposits denominated in the currency, making them less attractive to investors.

3.   An interest rate cut will be bad for the Australian dollar as it will reduce the yield on deposits denominated in the currency.

4.   Because chip making is so precise, any variation is anathema, potentially reducing yields.

5.   A plant disease that can dramatically reduce sugar cane yields has been detected in the sugar cane fields of South Florida.

6.   A frost, which would damage coffee trees and reduce yields of future Brazilian crops, could send prices even higher.

7.   A municipal banker could be accused of yield burning if the bank overcharges for a Treasury security to reduce the yield to meet Treasury regulations on municipal refinancings.

8.   A scarcity of securities pushes their price higher, which reduces the yield.

9.   But as the English wine magazine Decanter has reported, most growers believe they would go broke reducing their yields.

10.   But until the weather plays out over the next month, no one knows for sure how badly yields will be reduced.