As stock prices and the 30-Year bond rate moves higher, stocks become less attractive fundamentally.
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The Italian bond rate reached a record of 7.48% last Wednesday, draining investor confidence and hastening Mr Berlusconi's departure.
As the 2006 law continues to phase in, the higher blended corporate bond rate is causing significant reductions in lump-sum pension values.
That change is being phased in from 2008 through 2012 and allows companies to utilize a blended corporate bond rate to calculate lump-sum pension values.
The bond rate tells us the truth about ourselves when we are the ones setting it through our production, consumption, savings and investment.
Knowing when your employer intends to integrate the corporate bond rate into your plan, and the impact this will have on your lump-sum value, is crucial for your retirement planning.
The slope of the yield curve can be measured in varying ways but is conventionally thought of as the long-term government bond rate minus the short-term government bond rate.
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For years, strategists and soothsayers have been predicting that low rates on bonds, generally benchmarked by a 10-year Treasury bond rate that has largely remained under 2%, would force investors into riskier assets.
And this is even more true of short-term instruments such as the overnight Fed Funds rate than it is of a longer term bond rate, because as a general rule, the shorter the duration, the lower the risk.
This seemingly greedy deal for Goldman essentially lends money to InPhonic at a fat 9% junk bond rate, and as a sweetener it will be able to increase its stake in INPC by 25%, to about 6.27 million shares or 17% of the company.
As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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So when an advisor offers a bond fund rate in the range of 3-7%, it can seem like a logical choice.
The rate on the savings bond is 0.44% higher than the rate of the 20 Year Treasury bond.
Some providers have launched various "inflation-rate bond" products into the market in recent times.
Still, floating-rate bond funds may be the best fixed-income deal available in an environment of rising short-term interest rates.
Including, if you should so with, synthetics which all involve a currency transaction which mimics the movement of any bond, interest rate, stock, commodity.
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Draghi has proposed actions such as further bond purchases, rate cuts, and a new Long-Term Refinancing Option, which allows the ECB to lend to eurozone banks at very low interest rates.
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When thinking about the cost of this kind of arrangement, many people would focus on the interest rate on the bond the government is issuing (just as they focus now on the interest rate on the promissory notes).
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The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a fixed rate, which applies for the life of the bond, and the semiannual inflation rate.
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The fact of the matter is that municipal bond defaults are incredibly rate.
Even after a bump in recent weeks, the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury bond sports an interest rate of less than 2%.
The second reason for likely interest rate increases can be attributed to the correlation between the Federal Funds Rate and bond interest rates.
Second, Chilean firms and banks can tap international capital markets only if two bond-rating agencies rate their paper as high as Chile's own government bonds.
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Homeowners need to recognize that when they vote for a local bond deal or tax rate increase, the resulting financial debt burden may ultimately fall on their children.
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Private plans' use of a bond-based discount rate reflects that higher equity returns are not a free lunch--the firm will be required to cough up extra cash if the assets underperform.
The movement in major government bond yields - the implied interest rate that countries pay to borrow money - was small - an indication that bond investors saw limited risks at the moment.
When rate hikes slam bond prices across the board, plenty of Treasurys have been handy to cover short positions.
Debt has an obvious cost: the interest rate on a bond or loan.
Suttong, a battery maker, was recently forced to raise money at 450 basis points over the prevailing rate in the bond market.
All things being equal, an investor would rather not hold a bond with a low coupon rate when new bonds are being issued at higher coupon rates.
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