Slovenia's 10-year bond yielded 5.847% on Tuesday, compared with 5.69% a day earlier.
Norfolk Southern swung for the fences with a 95-year bond yielding 5.95%.
Say the rate on the Spanish bond was 5% and Corzine was able to purchase at a 10% discount to par (100) or 90% of face value.
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Why he thought a discounted 3% bond was better value than a 5% bond sold at par is unclear.
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As of Thursday, a 5 year AAA corporate bond has an interest rate of 1.21% and a 5 year AAA muni bond has an interest rate of 0.93%.
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Minimal inflation, bond yields at 5.5% and normalized growth are the stuff bull markets are made of.
The percentage of portfolio dollars held in bonds and bond funds rose 5.1 percentage points from April.
The historical norm for US government bond yields is 5 or 6%.
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On January 1, 2000, the MMD AAA 30-year bond was yielding 5.97%.
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Its 30-year bond launch yielding 5.13% saw such strong demand that the deal was re-priced to yield 4bps lower at the final issue.
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The long bond has averaged 5.05% over the same dozen years and is currently yielding 4.66%, and the 3-month bill is currently yielding a whopping 0.11%.
In the third quarter, when the stock fund lost a sickening 13.8 percent, the bond fund gained 5.4 percent, so the portfolio as a whole lost only 4.2 percent.
When the Gap launched its 10-year bond with a 5.95% coupon on April 8, it was prices to yield about 238 basis points more than the 10-year treasury yield.
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If you bought a 10-year bond with a 5% coupon in 2003, your only option as it matures in 2013 may be to accept a much lower coupon rate.
' This might involving switching between both interest rates and currencies, trading a 10 year German bond for a 5 year Japanese one at a different interest rate, for example.
The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index gained 6.5% a year while individual bond buyers got stuck with a paltry 0.94% a year in gains.
The Spanish 10-year bond yield was quoted just above 6.5%, while Italian bond yields were quoted just below 6% on Wednesday.
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Italian bond yields are presently around 4.4% and Spanish bond yields are near 5.25%.
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Over the same period, the yield on the 30-year bond declined only from 5.74% to 5.55%.
The yield on the ten-year bond last closed below 5% on June 13.
However, the Spanish 10-year bond yield, at 5.33%, is still below the critical 6% level that is deemed a danger point.
The government's 10-year benchmark bond is yielding around 5.15%, compared with the peak of 7.68% hit last July, according to Tradeweb data.
Among hedge funds reporting losses, GLG Partners has said its convertible bond fund was down 5.2% in April--no report for May is available just yet.
After the auction, Spain's 10-year government bond yield rose above 5%.
Year-to-date, it's nearly flat, while the bond index is up 5.9%.
The Spanish 10-year bond yield was at 5.32% Wednesday, well below its November peak in the 6.7% range and the 7% threshold which has been unsustainable for other countries in peripheral Europe.
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Spain's 10-year bond yield rose above 5.6%.
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