Another area muni bond fund investors should look for are how much in Florida, Arizona, California and Nevada community development bonds their fund owns.

FORBES: Buffett Frets Over Municipals, So Should You

Franki Brandt-Pethtel, the Director of Operations for Bond Jewelers in the Tampa Bay Area, thinks maintaining a proper dress code shows respect for your employer, clients and yourself.

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Revenues from bond sales and trading operations, an area in which Lehman built its name, equalled company records, he said.

BBC: Markets slide hits Lehman profits

Bond investors have become choosier about sovereign credit risk, so some euro-area borrowers have had to stump up higher coupons for their recent bond issues.

ECONOMIST: The gains outweigh the losses

Regulators in Brussels are moving ahead with draft proposals to build a euro bond issuance warehouse from which euro-area governments can tap capital markets by issuing what would be bonds deemed safer by investors.

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Spain had successfully dislodged itself from the group of peripheral euro-area countries with the most punishing bond yields.

ECONOMIST: The euro crisis

Spain's borrowing costs have been rising as investors in the bond market fear it could become the next euro area nation to fall victim to the debt crisis.

CNN: Spain faces bank concerns after downgrade

She was the first person in the entire area to venture our way, to create a bond with people like us, who had come back to Bugues after so many years of abandonment.

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Bond markets are signalling a worrying rise in inflation expectations in the euro area as well as in America.

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We think many traditional euro area banks see the LTRO as a repo and partial covered bond replacement, but with limited scope for loan growth, with the backdrop of deleveraging the amount used for increasing balance sheets likely to be limited.

FORBES: ECB's Liquidity Injection Doesn't Justify This Rally, Could Derail It

Yet despite its faster growth, America's real bond yields are lower than Japan's and about the same as in the euro area.

ECONOMIST: World economy

Europe's first 'Tobin tax', named after economist James Tobin who mooted a global tax on currency trades in the 1970s, levies 0.1 per cent on stock and bond trades and 0.01 per cent on derivatives transactions involving one financial institution with its headquarters in the tax area, or trading on behalf of a client based in the tax area.

CNN: US banks warn over planned EU 'Tobin tax'