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On Thursday, the bank said it would increase its purchases of Japanese government bonds and extended the average maturity of the bonds it purchases from three years to seven years.
BBC: Haruhiko Kuroda
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And, the only way to borrow long-term in a rising rate environment is to offer risk-averse investors higher coupons on bonds with extended maturities.
FORBES: Move Over Treasuries, Muni Bonds Are The New Bellwether
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Home lenders, thinking they would always be able to sell the loans they made to Wall Street firms for bundling together into mortgage bonds, extended credit to just about anybody.
NEWYORKER: What Good Is Wall Street?
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Fund managers worried about the end of an extended bull market in bonds might look to Asia, where a sudden selloff in a certain class of risky bonds has left many investors with large losses.
WSJ: What's News
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The uncertainties have even extended to U.S. Treasury bonds, which investors have piled into as a perceived safe haven over the last two years.
FORBES: Market Meets New Wall of Worry Or More Likely Just Brief Profit-Taking On Way To Higher Highs
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Yet Treasury bonds are still significantly over-extended above the prices that prevailed most of the time before, during, and after the 2008 financial crisis, except for two previous brief spike-ups, in 2008, and 2010 (and those ended with substantial plunges back to normal).
FORBES: Who Will Buy All Those Treasury Bonds When The Fed Stops?
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The recent run to Treasury bonds, a safe haven in times of recession, was extended, and the yield on the 10-year note fell to 3.56% from Thursday's close of 3.62%.
FORBES: Fed Reaches Into Its Toolbox