No public money, no bonds were needed to build and to sustain the museum.
WSJ: How Dallas Does Philanthropy: Perot Museum of Nature and Science
The mere existence of the bond purchase offer has lowered the borrowing costs for Italy and Spain even though no bonds have been bought.
Under a system of purely local lending, a system with no securitisation, no packaging into bonds and no selling off to banks in far away places, we would still have seen banks toppling over like dominoes.
FORBES: Ezra Klein, The Financial Crash and Risk Dispersement
No James Bonds were injured during the making of this review.
FORBES: The Rolex Problem: A (Semi) Rational Look At The World's Most Recognized Watch
With no market for corporate bonds to speak of, there were no credit ratings.
U.S. treasuries are no longer liberty bonds, with the proceeds to go towards defeating the Nazis.
FORBES: As Obama Heads To Term Two, What Are Investors To Do?
As such we no longer view bonds as a vehicle for generating income, but rather lowering volatility.
These conjectures are usually attached to claims that traditional methods of allocating to stocks and bonds no longer work.
The recent round of quantitative easing will fail to keep bond prices high with yields low so we will continue to short the long term Treasury bond, seeing virtually no opportunity in bonds.
FORBES: Megamind:Who are the HEROES and the SUPER-VILLAINS of the Trade and Currency War?
European authorities need to avoid a further sovereign credit rating downgrade of Greece, which would put it in default, as this would make Greek bonds no longer good enough to be held as collateral by the European Central Bank.
FORBES: Voluntary Greek Debt Restructuring Still Constitutes Default, S&P Says
Add to the equation the high correlation in the stock market and high volatility, and suddenly the rule of thumb of investing 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in bonds no longer provides the returns they once did.
The sad thing is this: Today investors can earn 11% on Treasury bonds with absolutely no credit risk and 9% or more tax-free on municipal bonds.
Tobu, a major railway operator in the Tokyo area, doesn't need the funds until June, when existing bonds are due, but it wasted no time in issuing 10-year bonds because Japan's new economic policy, dubbed "Abenomics, " is likely to lead to higher interest rates later.
Stocks were cheap in 1999, they write, and they were no more risky than bonds.
That week, no investment-grade bonds were issued, for the first time (holidays aside) since 1981.
Thanks to all the bail-outs, there will be no shortage of government bonds to buy.
Part of the explanation is that most investors have no idea of the bonds' true worth.
But according to Michael Hampden-Turner, a Citibank strategist, around 90% of Greek bonds have no such clause attached.
ECONOMIST: How the credit-default market will judge a deal on Greece
In our book we report that the Giants had no interest in confronting Bonds about suspicions of steroid use.
Some investors say the buying petered out once yields fell below 5%, when the bonds might no longer be considered cheap.
U.S. interest rates spike no matter how many bonds Bernanke is buying.
She points out that in urban India, family bonds are no longer strong which is demonstrated by the proliferation of old age homes.
But there is no evidence that the bonds would have a higher risk of default as they got closer to the maturity date.
FORBES: Uncontrolled Risk Taking, Not Bad Accounting, Did MF Global In
The fact that early bonds had no fixed maturity date ensured that any change in interest rate was fully reflected in the capital value of the bond.
ECONOMIST: What did early 19th-century literary characters live on?
The market for unsecured bonds has been closed for weeks, leaving banks with no option but to sell covered bonds at usurious interest rates that will challenge their profitability.
The moment that Greece defaults, its bonds will no longer be eligible for use as ECB collateral, the Greek banking system will collapse, and this process will screech to a halt.
When your MBS or junk bonds are no longer accepted as collateral you have to dig deep into the vault and come up with something that is accepted, like gold or silver.
FORBES: Gold Inches Up As Goldbugs Seek Reasons For Historic Rout
Since almost no small businesses issue bonds or commercial paper, the real American job creators are effectively cut out of the foreign investment market while big business has access to cheap money.
FORBES: How Washington Starves Small Business Of Foreign Capital
应用推荐