Nigel Bond, head of facilities at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, said land near the Leicester Tigers' stadium had planning permission for a multi-storey car park.
Professor Ian Bond, head of the aerospace engineering department at the UK's University of Bristol, said his team had been developing a "bio-inspired" vascular system, based on the veins in the human body.
Experienced investors and bond traders should head to sites like ISI Emerging Markets or Bradynet.com, which give greater detail.
On a cheerier note, though, Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC, questions the conventional wisdom that bond yields must head back up.
For some of the larger banks in countries such as Germany, keeping out of the bond market is a matter of choice, said Keval Shah, head of the bond-syndication desk for financial companies at Citigroup Inc.
But if inflation rears its head, those bond prices will fall and those portfolios will lose cash and income.
Phil Condon, head of municipal bond portfolio management for DWS Investments, says he is selling regular munis to snap up more kicker bonds.
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"Several clients have moved to the sidelines until the tape bombs and path ahead in Europe is crystallized, " said Scott Graham, managing director and head of government bond trading at BMO Capital Markets in Chicago.
Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody's, explains that connection.
Lisa Goldstein, the head of health care bond ratings at Moody's, argues that better quality control can improve hospitals' financial performance.
The first-half is that the self-fulfilling panic in the bond markets which reared its ugly head again in July is unlikely to return.
"Expectations of bank support now are getting priced into the market, " said the head of European sovereign-bond trading at a global bank.
Every time I went for my watch in the safe (naturally having to first swing the large painting aside to reach it), the James Bond theme song started up in my head again.
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"This was a very big curve ball, " said Jay Wheatley, head of the tax-exempt bond syndicate desk at Citigroup.
After falling steadily for 30 years, bond yields are now heading north with a full head of steam.
The Federal Reserve announced Sunday that it would make discount-window borrowing available to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reminiscent of its decision in March to provide direct loans to brokerage houses that are primary Treasury bond dealers as the Bear Stearns crisis came to a head.
As a result, bond yields in these countries are artificially low now, says Shane Shepherd, head of fixed-income research at Research Affiliates, an investment firm in Newport Beach, Calif.
"These investors are not saying the bond has to pay off to make money, " said Tim Slaughter, head of fixed income at Auerbach Grayson, an agency brokerage in New York.
Maria Cannata, the head of the Italian Treasury's debt-management agency, is initiating a special bond for individual investors.
Mr. Balcerowicz sides with the head of Germany's Bundesbank, the sole dissenter on the ECB board to the bond-buying scheme.
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Now discussions of the directive are coming to a head, with the British under attack for obstructing the tax merely to protect the jobs of rich bond dealers in the City of London (see article).
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