For local currency bond holders, Brazil offers some of the best investment grade yield around.
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The specific cost to bond holders and the general cost to society would have been smaller.
Ironically, the party of fiscal righteousness believes dissing bond holders is the right thing to do.
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Or rather the severity of the situation had to be impressed on bond holders.
Today, yields aren't as deeply negative, but bond holders are still losing money compared to inflation.
Or create a massively large stability fund and combine that with some haircuts for euro bond holders.
These are all ideas floating around off the side of the desks of bond holders and Euro-thinkers.
Marking assets to market with bond holders taking a hair cut would relieve toxic assets from balance sheets.
Defaulting on those obligations, including coupon payments to bond holders, would cause severe hardship for the US economy.
That means if the Fed keeps its word, rates should rise and bond holders will take a hit.
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The bond holders were, in effect, shafted out of their previous legal rights.
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Rising currencies are good for bond holders, so long as the currency rises in strength from where it was purchased.
On the Greece front, there is a growing call for private bond holders to share the burden of a second bailout.
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It wouldn't be quite alright for their shareholders and some of their bond holders and their employees, but it wouldn't be systemic.
Such larger depositors and bond holders would of course be bailed in: they would now own the equity of those Cypriot banks.
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Those with more than that were not so covered: nor were the shareholders in the banks, the bond holders or anyone else.
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Over two restructurings, about 93% of bond holders took a massive haircut on their holdings, accepting about 30 cents on the dollar.
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Italy and Spain are especially subject to social unrest which, if unleashed, would spook bond holders and reignite fear of the Eurozone splintering.
Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Illinois with securities fraud for misleading municipal bond holders about the scope of its pension obligations.
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One of the key questions now is, are the bond holders, the lenders, the money people, are they willing to make sacrifices, as well?
Barclays Capital analysts said first in line would be bond holders.
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The US has never defaulted on its interest payments to bond holders, except once in the 1970s due to a technical error in delivering the bonds.
Bond spreads are always higher on riskier debt because bond holders are being compensated through yield for future losses that may be incurred in a debt default.
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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.
Moreover, he's thus far failed to embrace a bold reform agenda to save money, improve services, and restore confidence among the state's beleaguered taxpayers and bond holders.
In August last year, the Supreme Court upheld SEBI's 2011 order directing Sahara to repay its bond holders as it had flouted capital market rules while issuing the bonds.
CDSs were sold as a protection policy to bond holders just for this type of scenario, yet officials may not be fully confident in that CDS protection holding up.
"In terms of their ability to pay bond holders, the emerging markets actually look in better shape than the United States over the next 5-10 years, at least, " Zervos says.
Up until this point in the European debt crisis, bond holders have been held sacrosanct as no one has wanted to even consider the far-reaching consequences of a sovereign default.
In 2011, when a struggling Greece was allowed to let some of its private bond holders take a loss -- a "haircut" -- Cypriot banks lost money and needed refinancing.
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