They seem willing to buy long-term instruments without much compensation for the extra uncertainty the far future holds.
And third, the rescue funds should buy long-dated bonds in the primary market to bring down borrowing costs.
Sensible intervention cannot even buy long-term relief: the plan cannot stop house prices falling and the bloated financial sector shrinking.
In support of Abenomics, the Bank of Japan this past Wednesday affirmed its own policies to buy long-term debt and securities.
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The research paper from economists Jeff Brown and Amy Finkelstein describes many reasons why so few people buy long-term care coverage.
Money flows into one arm of the government the Treasury and then the Fed uses it to buy long-term securities.
Valuations are so low right now that companies can buy at bargain basement prices--but that doesn't mean they can necessarily buy long-term value.
It doesn't make sense to buy long-term bonds at high prices now if the market is likely to reverse soon, some market participants say.
These steps include the decision by the Japanese central bank to double the country's money supply and buy long-term government bonds to try to keep interest rates low.
Under the circumstances, it's a bad bet to buy long-dated bonds.
We adopted a few in our family to address questions like whether my mom should buy long-term health insurance and where to hold our family reunion.
They may not want to buy long-dated bonds, which are more prone to capital losses as rates rise, at the exact time that issuers are offering higher yields.
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They can buy long-term government securities, and they can keep buying them and providing high-powered money until the high powered money starts getting the economy in an expansion.
More helpfully, the state has intervened to buy long-term electricity contracts to sell on to the less creditworthy utilities, although that still looks something of a stopgap measure.
Investors who grasp for that last percentage point of yield and buy long-term bonds are making a gigantic bet that rates will fall even further or at least hold even.
Banks have little incentive to make money the old-fashioned way (by lending) if they can lazily tap the Federal Reserve for free money and then buy long-term U.S. Treasurys yielding 3.5%.
Under the new approach, the Fed would print new money to buy long-term mortgage or Treasury bonds but effectively tie up the money by borrowing it back for short periods at low rates.
The CIA reported this month that the threat of missile attack is higher than ever, as more and more terrorists or rogue states have the ability to build or buy long-range ballistic missiles.
And since insurance companies and pension funds buy long-dated bonds to match their long-dated liabilities, everyone has been scrambling to acquire what appears to be a fast-vanishing asset hence the soaring prices and plunging yields.
Individuals can make choices like how to buy long-term medications (there are good, lower-cost options) and how much health insurance they need (a lot of people are over-insured for routine health costs, especially in the Medicare supplement market).
Under Operation Twist, already under way when the Federal Reserve said it would embark upon purchases of mortgage-backed securities last month, the central bank uses proceeds from the sale of short-term Treasury securities to buy long-term ones in its bid to push down long-term rates.
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They found that it made sense to buy long bonds in almost all interest-rate scenarios but one: when rates are low (so the risk that they will revert to the mean, thus undercutting the value of the bond, is high) and the yield curve a line drawn through the interest rates on government securities with different maturities is flat (so there is little extra reward for taking that risk).
Both Apple and Google are rated Focus List Buy and Long-Term Buy in Dow Theory Forecasts.
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Simply know the levels at which you want to buy to go long or buy to cover a short on weakness.
Boasting 30 straight years of dividend growth, Exxon Mobil is a Dow Theory Forecasts Buy and a Long-Term Buy.
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DirecTV is a Dow Theory Forecasts Focus List Buy and a Long-Term Buy.
Amex is a Dow Theory Forecasts Focus List Buy and a Long-Term Buy.
Trading at 10 times estimated 2013 earnings, 30% below the median for its peer group, UnitedHealth Group is a Dow Theory Forecasts Focus List Buy and a Long-Term Buy.
If SBC wanted to buy a long-distance business or start its own, it could.
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