Investors are moving into the safety of the dollar, causing yields on U.S. 10-year bond notes to fall to 2.28% last week.
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If a counterfeiter managed to get a hold of a valid ID number, Pfizer's Bond notes, they would still be unlikely to match it with the correct expiration date.
This is where Ian Fleming came to drink martinis and jot notes for his Bond novels.
Fitch notes that existing bond indentures include limited restrictions on asset sales, thus providing little if any protection to bondholders.
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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.
But in general, I think the play has been over, obviously in these notes and bonds, and bond funds for that matter.
As I discussed last spring, when the Spyder Trust ( SPY) was topping out in April 2012, the bond pros were buying bonds and selling notes.
This is the argument for replacing the promissory notes with a very long-term bond.
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However, agencies may recognize market adjustments on bills, notes, bonds, and zero coupon bond securities classified as available-for-sale.
Effective October 1, 2002, for intragovernmental investments with the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), BPD and trading partner agencies will use the interest method for amortization on market-based notes, bonds, and zero-coupon bond securities.
However, the response to the U.S. Treasury auction of new 5-year notes yesterday afternoon was miserable, and sent the bond and stock markets tumbling.
Treasury bond investors got a taste of this last week when the yield on 10-Year Treasury Notes rose more than a quarter of one percent and prices of those bonds fell precipitously.
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For fans of the films, Bond is a wholly different experience than he is for fans of Ian Fleming's novels, notes English professor and cultural critic Louis Menand.
When thinking about the cost of this kind of arrangement, many people would focus on the interest rate on the bond the government is issuing (just as they focus now on the interest rate on the promissory notes).
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The government reopened old bond issues, selling oddly dated paper with maturities between the more common five- and 10-year notes.
Kramer notes these assets are most likely bonds and the underlying entity has to pay interest to the bond holder.
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