It makes sense for the investment-grade bond index to do better once its worst credit has dropped out.
That way, as Michael Woodford, a Princeton economist, puts it, the Fed can get the bond market to do its work for it.
At least at Fidelity and Schwab, the two biggest supermarkets, NTF bond funds do seem to cost more.
Issuers will continue to do bond-for-loan takeouts markets permitting.
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He quit a year later--ahead of Drexel's collapse triggered by prosecution of its junk-bond operation--to do boutique-finance deals that eventually led him to Houston billionaire Robert McNair's Cogen Technologies (which sold most of its plants to Enron just before that giant's collapse).
By February, it became obvious that the 16-nation euro zone would have to do something to address the Greek bond meltdown.
Newhouse, the successful bidder for "Orange Marilyn, " won't have as much fun, but the purchase isn't likely to put him in bankruptcy court -- as "Irises" helped do to Alan Bond.
She expects interest rates to rise significantly over the next 12 months and also warns municipal bond buyers to be extremely selective and do their homework when venturing into munis.
And each time the Fed came to the rescue with another round of QE type bond-buying stimulus, but we do have to wonder what the Fed can do about it this time.
Ironically, the party of fiscal righteousness believes dissing bond holders is the right thing to do.
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That had most to do with Nextel bond covenants from years ago.
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"I felt like everything I wanted to do with a Bond movie, I put into this film, " he was quoted as saying last year.
Much of this is a direct result of Mario Draghi's promise on the 26 July to "do whatever it takes" to support the sovereign bond markets.
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Other than parking cash for a few years in short-term bond index funds to beat money markets, lazier investors might do better with actively managed broad-spectrum bond funds.
The most successful brands seek to bond with their customers and social media makes it easier than ever to do so.
How about taking some time out of our busy schedules to bond with our colleagues, get to know them a little better, do something fun together and enjoy life?
Specialized continuous information content, where you're probably going to have one provider, providing bond prices for the Turkish market, say, are going to do really well, because for a long time, they're going to be able to keep people out.
The European Central Bank unleashed its open-ended bond buying program after Mario Draghi promised to do all he can to save the monetary union, and Fed chief Ben Bernanke announced his version of open-ended bond purchases, dubbed QE3.
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And it's been a real struggle because as they raise more capital, there's more deterioration in the marketplace, there are more potential losses, they have to raise more capital, and the banks themselves don't really want to give the bond insurers a bailout, or they don't want to coalesce to do that, which is basically saying look, I'm out of patience here.
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Yet that has nothing to do with today, and Bond knows it.
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If the intent of QE3 is to lower the yield on the 30-Year U.S. Treasury bond, the Fed has some catching up to do.
Perhaps the big goal line stand had to do with the dollar or bond yields rising here in the U.S. (signaling that there was no panicked flight to quality occurring).
There are many other yields to compare them to, but for purposes of isolating factors having to do with growth, the most useful is to compare equity yields with bond yields, especially government bonds.
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And today's announcement by Spain that there was no growth at all in its economy won't do anything to pull its bond yields significantly further away from that 7% danger zone, where a possible Italian bailout could be followed by a Spanish rescue.
Callability means the issuer can force you to surrender the bond early, and it will do so if interest rates decline a lot after the bond is issued.
If the ECB gives the impression that it will do the minimum to abate the bond-market panic, it would increase the pressure on Italy's politicians to support a reform-minded cabinet and to push through the right policies quickly.
The ground floor holds a theatre, lecture hall and kitchens where the arts of Italian cooking are taught to aspiring professional chefs, well-to-do food-lovers from around the world, and teams of managers encouraged to bond over chopping blocks and mixing bowls.
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What you can do, however, is add bond ratings to the factors you consider in selecting stocks.
Clearly and obviously not something that Samsung is about to do: so why insist on a bond at all?
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