Buckyballs, as they became known colloquially, are football-shaped molecules made of 60 carbon atoms linked by single and double bonds.
Typical double-B Cat bonds have rates five points above Libor, compared to three to four for corporate bonds.
It owns 18% of all government bonds, almost double the level of two years ago.
Prosecutors argued in court Friday that Bonds led a double life and noted that he had mistresses during his marriage.
Insurance companies and pension funds are looking to double their investment in emerging market bonds from about 4% of their portfolios to 8%.
After the first policy-setting meeting under Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, the central bank said it will more than double its holdings of Japanese government bonds by 2014.
Over the next five years or so, the volume of European corporate bonds is expected to double, and that of equities to triple as governments cut public-pension provisions, and investors seek higher returns.
Interest rates of 11.75% in Brazil make for an attractive carry-trade for Japanese banks, who can borrow money at near-zero interest rates and invest in Brazilian government bonds or bank deposits paying double digit yields.
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The central bank, under its new governor Haruhiko Kuroda, has vowed to double the monetary base through purchases of government bonds to meet a 2 percent inflation target within the next two years.
Finally, when you are able to double your money, tax free, in municipal bonds in eight or nine years, why should you reach for rabbit breeding, diamonds and risky startup stocks?
Rates are very low right now, but there is an interesting facet to EE bonds: the Treasury guarantees the bond will double in value if held to maturity, which is 20 years.
Local currency government bonds have traded recently below 10%, where double digit yield is much more common.
Investor 2 preserved his capital in cash over the period while Investor 3 experienced a double-digit return as money fled the stock market into Treasury bonds.
Her financial adviser then will shift some of her savings out of an annuity and into high-yielding bonds and real-estate investment trusts, aiming to double the return on that money to 10% a year.
These steps include the decision by the Japanese central bank to double the country's money supply and buy long-term government bonds to try to keep interest rates low.
Brazil bonds, constantly upgraded and with a credit outlook positive, yield double digits.
But later it disclosed that its exposure was more than double that amount, in part because of its dispute with the insurers over the surety bonds.
It is possible that the price of bonds of the better telecoms firms, such as Telewest and Nextel, could double in the next two years even though they pay yields well in excess of 20%, a gain usually associated only with the best years of venture capital, not boring old bonds.
Individual investors may not get as excited about e-bonds as they have about shares because, unlike some share prices, bond prices rarely double in 12 months.
Returns depend on how junky the bonds and how long until they mature, but yields are generally running well into the double-digits, while 10-year Treasuries offer a paltry return of 3.77% and safer short-term bills are running well below 1.0%.
The plan to invest some of the Social Security trust fund on Wall Street purports to address this: real assets would henceforth back the promise and, you might think, there is a double benefit because returns on Wall Street are higher than returns on the fund's existing portfolio of bonds.
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