Simply put, people who buy U.S. Treasury instruments will get their money back.
Most importantly, investors still buy U.S. bonds and the U.S. dollar in a crisis.
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Another option: Have your bank or broker buy U.S. Treasury bills in a noncompetitive tender at the next auction.
Sure, compared with the alternative, which is to buy U.S. Treasury bills.
He considered overseas investments after falling short in a 2010 effort to buy U.S. rival General Growth Properties Inc.
It seems that Wall Street has convinced investors on Main Street to sell U.S. Treasuries and other fixed-income to buy U.S. equities.
He believes investors like China will continue to buy U.S. Treasury securities.
Their forecasts suggest that Revenue per Square Foot for Best Buy U.S. and Number of International Stores will trend higher than the Trefis forecast.
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The higher than expected increase in Revenue per Square Foot for Best Buy U.S. may come at the expense of competitors like Wal-Mart and RadioShack.
And, as the container industry bought less steel from abroad, overseas firms had fewer dollars to buy U.S. products or to invest in the U.S. economy.
To great fanfare, the Bank of Japan initiated a vigorous campaign to buy U.S. dollars, thereby stemming the rise of the yen and pulling up the greenback.
This time Haugerud's interest was whetted by a source in Australia who said a drought there was forcing the country to buy U.S. sorghum as a replacement for feed.
Foreign central banks buy U.S. public debt not because of its investment prospects (which are weak in the long-run) but because of its mechanical purposes in the banking system.
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So if this extra spending means that their current account surplus becomes smaller, then there's less available to buy U.S. Treasuries, and you'd expect U.S. interest rates to go up a bit.
The fire at the facility in Jilin province came as American regulators and consumers begin to scrutinize a bid by Chinese food company Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. to buy U.S. pork producer Smithfield Foods Inc.
On Tuesday the U.S. central bank annouced that it would buy U.S. commercial paper through a special funding facility designed to provide liquidity to term-funding markets and backstop U.S. issuers of commercial paper, TradeTheNews.com reported.
Companies outside the United States like to list on Wall Street for two main reasons: access to the large pool of American capital and the creation of a dollar-based stock that can be used to buy U.S. businesses.
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The banks buy U.S. Treasuries.
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The big concern in the U.S. is not which country has the largest navy or nuclear arsenal, but whether China, Japan, and the oil exporting nations, will continue to buy U.S. bonds, and hold U.S. dollars in their central bank reserves, happy to be the largest foreign holders of U.S. debt.
They are the countries of the world whose central banks buy U.S. dollars collected by their export businesses, by printing their own money with which to do it, and with those dollars turn around and buy U.S. government securities, not because they necessarily consider them good investments, but primarily because the U.S. government securities market is currently the only U.S. dollar repository big enough to take the bid.
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For example, an investor typically decides to buy a U.S. stock fund before they decide the type of U.S. stock fund.
The world does not have so much money to buy more U.S. Treasuries, Deputy Governor of the People s Bank of China Zhu Min said in December.
The strong yen made Japanese goods more expensive to buy in U.S. dollars, forcing many U.S. importers to raise prices or abandon importing from Japan altogether.
Another recent buy was U.S. Corregated 10% bonds due 2013.
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The best way to trade on that hunch, says Ronald Mark, a currency trader for the Price Group in Chicago, is to buy the U.S. Dollar Index traded on the New York Board of Trade.
Others use the currency to buy stock in U.S. publicly traded firms like Stark International.
Malone, the cable billionaire, to try to buy back the U.S. entertainment assets and give them another go.
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