In " Flight To Safety " you rate Pakistan as a high-risk area.
Moreover, the four banks failed to benefit from the flight to safety that accompanied the financial crisis.
The flight to safety took U.S. 10 year Treasury yields below 1.5% for the first time in history.
German bond prices are rising and yields are shrinking as the flight to safety continues, but check out Brazil.
The news also prompted some flight to safety buying of the U.S. dollar.
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The bond crowd finds the current yield on Treasuries ridiculously low from the crowding-in effect, the sudden flight to safety.
With sovereign debt issues in Europe continuing to create widespread concern among investors, gold is benefiting from the resultant flight to safety.
The large U.S. banks are not the only corporations having an easy time issuing new bonds, benefiting from the flight to safety.
Beyond the Main Street investor that needs cash short term, Webman thinks they constitute a flight to liabilities, not a flight to safety.
Good for the 10 year Treasury, where the flight to safety pushed yields down to 3.23% from a recent peak of 3.53%.
The emerging trend towards bitcoin as a flight to safety seems to be accelerating despite the recent regulatory guidance from FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network).
These concerns that the U.S. central bank is planning to taper its bond-buying program sent stocks in Asia and Europe lower, while a flight to safety ensued.
They are as secure as T-bills, are likely to hold their value in a panic, and might even go up if there is a widespread flight to safety.
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Of course the markets were devastated in 2008 with a 38% decline in stocks, but the flight to safety produced 17% total returns for the 7-10 Year Treasury index.
Many of you are aware of nervous U.S. investors and how their flight to safety during the past two years has driven them increasingly toward bonds and away from stocks.
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In " Flight To Safety ", you wrote about an airline company located in England that helps to evacuate employees and executives from the hot spots of the world when needed.
But they are also shorting the Brazilian currency, the real, because they expect the dollar to gain as the Brazilian economy slows and the flight to safety trend continues into next year.
That had investment gurus like Bill Gross, a fund manager at PIMCO, saying he should have bought government bonds in anticipation of the flight to safety once QE2 ended on June 30.
Germany's borrowing costs fell to fresh record lows at an auction Wednesday as the prospect of new elections in Greece and the cash-strapped country's possible exit from the euro zone sparked an investor flight to safety.
Many see gold as a good place to stash cash because it will benefit from further global weakness as a flight to safety, but also stands to benefit from inflationary pressure should markets regain their footing.
And because prices of U.S. Treasurys tend to rise on flight-to-safety buying during periods of turmoil, holding some portion of a portfolio in government bonds does provide important diversification.
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Aside from the occasional flight-to-safety rallies driven by periodic credit fears in the near term, we concur.
Any further escalation in Hamas-Israeli violence could drive oil prices higher and see fresh flight-to-safety buying of gold.
Any further escalation in that situation could drive oil prices higher and see fresh flight-to-safety buying of gold.
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This suggests fresh flight-to-safety buying by investors (including into gold), which will pull way demand for risk assets like stocks.
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Flight-to-safety buying of U.S. Treasuries, German bunds, gold and the U.S. dollar all quickly came back into vogue late Monday.
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If an American recession caused a flight of capital to safety, these countries would see a sharp outflow of money.
Renewed flight-to-safety buying can be expected as the crisis worsens, he said.
Sure, there is the eternal flight-to-safety reason for always owning bonds.
As the day wore on, flight-to-safety moves also supported the greenback.
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