"It aims for stock-like returns but bond-like volatility, " says CBOE vice president Matt Moran.
So the ECB can buy time, important time, but bond-buying alone will not fix the crisis.
The Cold War may be over but Bond girls never go out of style.
Today, yields aren't as deeply negative, but bond holders are still losing money compared to inflation.
But bond yields also in part represent the market's forecast for the future level of short-term rates.
But Bond Street's artistic director Joanna Sherman says the two companies quickly discovered an auspicious harmony of style.
There was a fairly well-subscribed Italian debt auction Monday, but bond yields in Portugal rose to Euro era highs of around 16% Monday.
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But bond investors bought with even more lusty recklessness than before.
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But bond trading provides only a small part of total profits.
Yes, bond investors have had an easy ride since 1981, but the bond mutual fund party is over.
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This holds not only for the bond investor, but for the bond issuer as well.
But some bond experts are starting to question how long the good times can last.
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But the bond markets' woes also illustrate something else: the increasing conflict between shareholders and bondholders.
They are laughably attempting to make it for the next 30-years on nothing but miniscule bond income.
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But the bond market can also work against it, as it has done over the past month.
Insurance companies with big variable-annuity books may drop their annual guaranteed rates, but their bond portfolios will appreciate.
But making bond trading transparent is easier said than done, as recent events in Canada have made clear.
Insurance companies with big variable annuity books may drop their annual guaranteed rates, but their bond portfolios will appreciate.
For example, Butler County was Iowa's third-worst-hit county in 2008, but no bond dollars were spent within its borders.
But the bond market and loans between companies filled some of the gap.
But these bond issues simply replace one form of liability with another.
But when bond yields fell sharply in 2000, many were left exposed.
But the bond-syndication arms of those same banks need hedge funds to buy the debt they issue on behalf of their corporate clients.
It is mawkish and it attempts to resurrect an appeal in a type of Britishness that the 1960s laid to rest but which Bond has been giving moth-to-mouth ever since, never more so than here.
Forcing bond insurers to hold exposure to credit derivatives while ceding good liabilities like municipal bond insurance would swamp their already over-leveraged capital bases, but save municipal bond investors, taxpayers and local governments from further losses, Spitzer said.
This is not a problem if you hold a bond to maturity (unless you recently bought a newly issued long-term bond), but it will adversely impact bond fund prices.
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The other reasons why people invest in bonds, which is diversification, to dampen volatility, sure, you get that, when you invest in individual bonds or a bond fund, but the thing about the individual bond that the bond fund lacks is that ability to be predictable.
But from a bond market analyst's perspective, fears of a broader contagion are overblown.
The delay has kept its economy afloat but has made bond investors more nervous.
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