But short-selling should not be assisted by regulation any more than buying long should be advantaged.
To facilitate this, they have been buying long term treasuries at an alarming rate.
The trades involved investments to hedge the risks of buying long-term Italian government bonds.
And Internet banks have discovered that customers have a stubbornly persistent preference for buying long-term savings products face-to-face.
This may or may not have much to do with the Fed buying long-term securities in the U.S. market under QE2.
Specifically, economists and traders will be looking to see if the Fed announces a new form of stimulus, such as buying long-term Treasury bonds.
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This is where the Fed switches from buying short-term Treasury securities to buying long-term ones in a bid to push down long-term yields without increasing its balance sheet.
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You know, for you to think about how are you using energy at home, how are you using energy in your businesses -- are you buying long-lasting lights?
Remember, they are buying long-term treasuries with coupons under 2.0%.
Yield on U.S. debt is just below 2% for the 10 year and likely to fall lower once the Fed starts buying long dated bonds to flatten out the curve.
Bert Halliday, first vice president and senior financial adviser at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) in New York, emphasizes the family dynamics of buying long-term care.
That would be the point of buying the long term care insurance product in the first place.
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Wall Street wants Washington to put this debt debate to bed before investors start feeling confident about spending and buying equities long term.
The Federal Reserve has already embarked upon two rounds of quantitative easing, which is buying of long-term Treasury securities in an effort to push down market-set interest rates.
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The buying of long-term issues was an indication that investors weren't so afraid of the future that they were willing to accept the ridiculously low rates on short-term Treasury issues.
The government has refuted a China Business Times report on Monday of a 30% gas price hike that triggered nationwide panic buying and long queues for fuel, says Southern Metropolis Daily.
Casey's buys its gas in the spot market, but sometimes it can't recover a price hike immediately at the pump, since some of the competition is buying on long-term contracts and can afford to respond more gradually.
On the other hand, any big dip is likely to provide a buying opportunity for long-term investors.
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Of course, we will continue to monitor Sprint going forward, but we would advocate buying as the long awaited turnaround appears to be well underway.
Its sales reps must contend with incredibly long buying cycles.
Steinmetz suggests buying and holding long-duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns, and rolling them out, staying out in the same part of the yield curve.
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Murphy notes that the stock has been cut in half over the past four months, and asserts that it now looks like a buying opportunity for long-term investors.
For as long as that buying spree continues, those who worry about the long-term will look out of touch.
Speculators in the legacy report boosted their net long position by buying up more gross longs than shorts, hiking their net-long position to 3, 518 contracts.
Also, the Fed was planning to stop buying medium- and long-term Treasurys in October, removing a large source of demand.
It may be costly but it will be worth the investment because you will end up buying less in the long run.
Quantitative easing is a bond-buying program to lower long-term interest rates.
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According to the meeting minutes, the members of the FOMC have taken a step closer to a third round of quantitative easing, or bond-buying purchases to lower long-term interest rates.
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The minutes of the Fed's last meeting in March suggested that some policymakers favored slowing and eventually ending its bond buying as long as the economy and the job market kept improving.
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