As a callow bond-trader, fresh out of college, he participated in one of the greatest of them all, in Japan in 1986, when the yield on the ten-year benchmark Japanese government bond fell to 2.5%, the discount rate at the time.

ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

MacInnis, who was a student at the community college, was being held without bond at the Montgomery County Jail.

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If rates start rising and you have a high duration bond fund, the more likely you are to suffer losses in that bond fund, or age-based 529 college savings account.

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If bonds decline in value, age-based allocations will decline too, especially in bond heavy allocations for children that are closer to college.

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Using computer simulations, David Clary of University College, London, has examined how water molecules bond together.

ECONOMIST: Molecular bonding

College-savings professionals recommend money-market and short-term-bond funds.

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That bond persevered until John Paul's death in 2005, by which time Ratzinger was dean of the College of Cardinals -- the high-level group that advises the pope and, when called upon, picks a new pontiff.

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