And bonds continued higher despite all common sense.
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Buyers stepped in eventually of course, but it was primarily high net worth individuals and hedge funds who had years of experience with the asset class and believed that the bonds continued to be rock-solid.
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Bonds have continued to provide attractive returns, as rates fell across the maturity and credit spectrums.
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Last year around this time, I embarked on what was an extraordinary trip to India, in which we continued to strengthen the bonds, both commercial, on the security side, and strategic between the world's two largest democracies.
Investors have continued to pour money into bonds and bond funds at an unusual pace, as has been the situation all year.
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Meanwhile, investors have continued to pump money into bonds alongside stocks.
Emerging market funds and global equity funds also posted weekly inflow records as investors continued the rotation out of bonds and cash and towards equities, a trend that started in earnest in December.
But as junk bond financed companies continued to come under attack RJR bonds fell to big discounts.
Daimler-Benz introduced convertible bonds in 1996 and has continued to develop variable compensation packages.
Bonds backing Edison Mission have continued to fall in value this week following disappointing results of the annual PJM capacity auction.
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While he has been urging investors to ramp up their equity allocation to capture some of the potential upside, he has lately been telling clients to not neglect bonds, which he argues have continued to flash cautious signals.
Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said Thursday he would watch the progress of Bonds' case closely as Mitchell's probe continued.
Over the next couple of years, the Bank of Japan increased its annual buying of government bonds to 14.4 trillion yen, but deflation continued.
The gold price subsequently fell sharply and in its place came a bull market in government bonds that has, with a few sharp interruptions, continued to this day.
Expectations seem to be leaning towards continued low interest rate policies, with the likelihood of the Fed buying more longer dated bonds to keep the yield curve flatlined.
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How could men and women paid fortunes for their judgment have continued, as late as 2008, to package, repackage, and sell billions of dollars in bonds backed by subprime mortgages?
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