Bernanke says that all the Fed's quantitative easing is doing is, "lowering interest rates", but in fact, yields on the 10-year bond are now 2.97%, a new four-month high.

伯南克说美联储的所有的定量宽松是“降低利率”，但实际上10年期债券的收益率是2.97%，达到4个月的新高。

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At least 40 companies have said they would postpone or cancel bond offerings rather than risk being forced to pay high interest rates to sell the bonds - or being unable to sell them at all.

至少有40家企业表示，他们将推迟或取消债券发行，因为销售债券会有被迫支付高额利率的风险，或者根本就销不出去。

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The currency is up around 35% over the last two years, partially due to high interest rates in Brazil attracting foreign bond investors.

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As default risk is the primary driver of high-yield corporate bond prices, as opposed to interest rate direction, when the economy expands, the risk of high-yield corporate bonds defaulting is reduced and this is reflected in lower volatility.

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The fund is a crucial part of the ECB's plan, announced last week, to buy bonds to help European countries when market forces push bond interest rates too high.

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