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.
In recent months, many economists had suggested that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of 2013 if job growth accelerated.
But O'Sullivan said he thinks the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of this year if job growth continues to accelerate.
Debate among Fed policymakers at their previous meeting in March had led some economists to speculate that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases if job growth accelerated.
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.
This brings us back to Bond, a veteran of the civil rights movement who has pretty much run the group since the messy departure of Bruce Gordon as president and CEO this time last year.
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The German state of Lower Saxony issued its own sukuk bond back in 2004--the first European government to do so.
The company will let you put the bond back to it at par in 2004, which is good if rates rise.
After all, a mutual fund is always required to buy back your shares but no one is required to buy back your individual bond.
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Interest on those bonds are paid back to the bond holders through the unlimited taxing powers of the US government, which is what makes them AAA rated.
Then use that account to fund donations that you would otherwise have made in cash over the next several years, while using the cash to get back into the bond market.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's statement on Wednesday that the Fed might decide at one of its "next few meetings" to start pulling back on its bond purchases also contributed.
In fact the new film, more than just introducing a new lead man, represents a regeneration of the series, taking Bond back to the start of his career as an agent.
Portugal and Spain are also looking to the horizon to gauge how long and challenging it will be for both to tap back into the bond markets once this all blows over.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's statement on Wednesday that the Fed might decide at one of its "next few meetings" to start pulling back on its bond purchases, or quantitative easing, contributed to the sour mood.
Interest rates can come back up and hurt bond prices in at least 2 ways.
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.
It looks like the markets are back to focusing on bond spreads.
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.
The only way Greece was able to bring bond investors back to its sovereign debt late last year was in raising interest rates, with the near-guarantee that the International Monetary Fund was standing by to save investors and Greece from defaulting on its loans.
Just be sure to sip a glass while kicking back with an old James Bond flick.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to lower bond yields (raise bond prices) back in August.
Still, the foreign-law distinction is also at the heart of why this bond was paid back.
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Gary's brother Greg Powell has worked on numerous Bond films dating back to the Roger Moore era.
My reading of all this is that Mr Draghi wants to bring the bond purchasing programme back into the fold.
Initial funds to back the first social impact bond in the program came partly from one of the Sainsbury Family Trusts.
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Spanish 10-year bond yields are back below 6%, Italian yields below 5% and even Portuguese yields have dipped back below 8%.
Still, bond yields slid back over the 3% threshold to 2.95% as investors fled other asset classes grabbing for yield at any cost.
On the flip side, bond yields are back on the rise in Spain, and Germany saw lackluster demand at an auction of 10-year bunds.
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