Europeans bought about 9% of a China Development Bank dim-sum bond and 8% of one sold by Beijing Enterprises Group, Dealogic said.
With the average diversified equity fund in America returning 24% last year and the average bond fund earning 8.86%, generous fees may seem a reasonable price for expert stock-and bond-picking.
To get a sense of what Brazil yields are like, the January 2015 local currency government bond yielded 12.8% in the March 17 Brazilian Treasury auction.
After breaking their euro-era highs last week, Portuguese benchmark 10-year bond yields surged to 8.18% by 1:39 PM in New York, taking their spread with German bunds to 487 basis points.
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Government bond prices also fell, with the yield on the benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond rising to 7.80% from 7.74% earlier, but later paring some losses to trade at 7.77%.
Government bond prices fell initially--with the yield on the benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond rising to 7.80% in a knee-jerk reaction from 7.74% earlier, before recovering to end at 7.74%.
When gold was at its real all-time high in 1980, the ten-year Treasury-bond yield was 10.8%.
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Last Friday the borrowing costs for a 10-year government bond in Italy spiked at 8% before dropping back.
Over the last year, the Lehman Brothers U.S. credit index, a widely followed barometer of corporate bond performance, is up 8.2%.
Over the last year, the Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ) U.S. credit index, a widely followed barometer of corporate bond performance, is up 8.2%.
Over the same time, the 30-year U.S. Treasury bond yield jumped more than 150 basis points to nearly 8%, and in turn caused many bond investors to suffer losses of 20% or more in their portfolios.
The country's credit rating was slashed to near-junk status on March 29th, while ten-year bond yields have risen above 8% as investors fear Portugal will have to turn to the European Union and the IMF for loans.
The yield on the benchmark 8.15% bond due in 2022 rose to 7.45%, a two-week high, following the governor's comments.
Since the issue date, two things have happened: The bond price has appreciated 4.8% in Singapore dollars, and U.S. dollars have declined 3.7% to 1.65 Singapore dollars.
At one point today the interest rate on a 10-year Spanish government bond had risen to 6.8% - the highest since the euro began.
But the average annual return of bond investors was just 1.8%.
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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.
The benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond ended at 104.40 rupees, compared with 103.70 rupees before the announcement of the data.
The benchmark 8.15% 2022 bond climbed to an intraday high of 101.88 rupees from 101.64 rupees before the data.
Investors are attracted to property by the gap between rental yields, around 3.5%, and long-term bond yields, now around 1.8%.
According to the methodology employed by certain Wall Street analysts, the high yield bond market is currently pricing in an 8% default rate.
On average they think the yield on 10-year Treasury notes, a benchmark bond, will rise from 3.8% today to 4% to 4.5% by the end of the year.
Bid-to-cover ratio was 1.5 compared to 1.8 last month for a similar bond.
Individual investors held 20% of their portfolios in bonds and bond funds in December, a 1.8 percentage-point decline from November.
Bond rater Moody's lost 3.8% on Thursday after Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett cut his stake in the firm, which got burned giving high ratings to junky mortgage bonds.
Sian believes Portugal will need 42 billion euros to cover its sovereign debt payments, 36.8 billion euros for its bank bond redemptions, and 10.5 billion euros to recapitalize its banks.
And while stocks have had negative total returns in more than a third of the years since 2000, the trailing one-year returns of major coporate bond indexes have slipped into negative territory only 8 percent of the time.
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For example, the Market Vectors Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond (EMLC) ETF is down 7.8% year-to-date.
Vanguard Long-Term Bond shares are currently trading down about 0.8% on the day.
Bond and bond fund allocations were essentially unchanged at 21.8%.
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