Meeting minutes from the bank's last policy meeting indicated some members were willing to start rolling back its bond-buying program as early as June, though the decision makers didn't near agreement on the matter.
The selloff intensified during the afternoon, when minutes from the central bank's last policy meeting indicated some members were willing to start rolling back bond-buying as early as June, though the decision makers didn't near agreement on the matter.
On Tuesday, investors saw the global markets dip on European debt concerns and Wednesday was no better as rumors circulated that China could scale back its Euro-denominated bond holdings.
The monthly chart of the 30-year T-Bond goes back to 1995, when the yield peaked at 8.07%.
Stock investors have been trying to anticipate when the central bank will pull back on its unprecedented bond-buying program.
Japanese bonds broadly finished the day down however, as investors took a step back before a 10-year bond auction on Tuesday and a 30-year auction on Thursday.
However, bond funds carry annual expenses, upfront or back-end commission charges and, if interest rates rise, bond fund holders can lose principal.
The German state of Lower Saxony issued its own sukuk bond back in 2004--the first European government to do so.
As a result, the regulators hoped, sovereign-bond prices would come back somewhat and banks wouldn't face pressure to sell.
Once there, students bond during days of back-to-back classes and nights spent in marathon party-and-team-planning sessions in their tiny Strasbourg apartments.
Spanish 10-year bond yields are back below 6%, Italian yields below 5% and even Portuguese yields have dipped back below 8%.
Market players relay that investors are scaling back their bets on the high-yield bond market ahead of earnings season and alongside a fifth consecutive session of declines in the equity markets.
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One of the earliest exotic assets was the catastrophe bond, the provision of back-up capital to insurance companies dealing with earthquakes or hurricanes.
The left-hander managed two breaks of 70 and one of 80 to lead 5-1 before Bond, finalist here back in 1995, reduced the gap in style with a 125 total clearance.
In keeping with the theory that Mr. Market will do the exact opposite of what the majority expects, I read a recent study that in going back to 1977, there have been 14 bond-market rallies of 10% or more that lasted at least four months.
"I shall be back, " he says, a threat one-part Bond, one-part Schwarzenegger.
The back-and-forth in Congress over tax cuts for Americans in 2011 did not help settle investors Thursday, as bond yields simultaneously posted increases.
But, maddeningly, the institution that needs to do most the European Central Bank is hanging back even as the pressure on countries like Spain, whose sovereign-bond yields rose to euro-era highs this week, intensifies.
Debt has dropped to 3.5 times operating income from 7.2 times back in 1996, enough to support the firm's Bbb junk-bond rating.
Rather, they combine them with bond indexes or funds, or peel back on the large-caps inherent in SPY, and add a concentration of small- or mid-cap focused investments.
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You can even make this game work when you are buying back the very same bond, advises Robert Gordon , president of Twenty-First Securities in Manhattan and an expert on tax strategies for wealthy investors.
And Belgium, France and - to a tiny extent - Luxembourg are also providing guarantees that lenders of up to 90bn euros to Dexia over the coming ten years would get their money back (they are guaranteeing up to 90bn euros of inter-bank and bond funding for up to a decade).
Last Friday the borrowing costs for a 10-year government bond in Italy spiked at 8% before dropping back.
The winds of change swept Lyondell back to the credit markets this week though, with one of the largest junk-bond deals this year.
Still, the foreign-law distinction is also at the heart of why this bond was paid back.
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Edwards' chief bond strategist, predicts the Federal Reserve will raise short-term rates back up to 4%--or even 4.5%--over the next 18 months.
If inflation and interest rates start to rise, the volatility of bond prices will go up and the firm will start dialing back its fixed-income exposure.
The purpose of bond insurance is to enable municipalities with lower credit ratings to piggy-back on the higher rating of the insurer, lowering their borrowing costs.
And we started waiving back at them, and suddenly, there was that kind of artistic bond that is just - it's a miracle.
Even the Japanese yen is weaker against the dollar overall since the Fed's move, despite having clawed back all its losses after the Bank of Japan's move to add to its bond-buying programme last week.
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