There are several exemptions, including primary equity and bond issues, spot foreign-exchange deals and deals involving central clearing-houses.
Perhaps the difference between equity and bond performances under the two parties is down to their economic records?
Out of all the BRICs this month, Russia is the No. 1 destination for equity and bond inflows according to EPFR Global.
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Markets around the world--equity, bond, commodity--shook during the middle days of May.
This blog is not about the equity, bond, or property asset markets.
And they concluded that the outlook for equity and bond returns in the short term was about the same: between 2% and 4%.
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Disclosure of links to such countries as Iraq or Iran could hobble their ability to raise money in the U.S. equity and bond markets.
McMoran has been constantly strapped for cash in recent years requiring frequent trips to the equity and bond markets to keep this exploration program going.
But two incidents, in particular, impacted equity and bond markets.
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The only consistent data point we have observed over the five-year horizon is that a majority of active equity and bond managers in most categories lag comparable benchmark indices.
Because SMEs were effectively locked out of both the public equity and bond markets, most turned to the commercial banks, which were, by far, the largest providers of capital during that period.
The company sold a combined equity, bond and derivative product and backed up the conversion feature with a pledge of shares by the insiders, then handed the proceeds of the offering to the same insiders.
Equity and corporate bond markets could yet fall further, especially as the news on the economy seems to get worse every week.
There also are funds that offer one-stop-shop exposure to a variety of strategies traditionally associated with hedge funds, including long-short equity or nontraditional bond strategies.
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There are many other yields to compare them to, but for purposes of isolating factors having to do with growth, the most useful is to compare equity yields with bond yields, especially government bonds.
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Some workers would pick stocks better than others (Arthur Levitt, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, claims that more than half of all Americans do not know the difference between an equity and a bond).
In a front-page article published Dec. 14, the state-run China Securities Journal reported that the CSRC may try to avert an oversupply of shares by encouraging listing applicants to turn to the off-exchange equity market, bond market, or overseas bourses.
Purchases in combination with the deployment of EFSF funds and a newly retooled ESM transformed as a bank, using its equity for sovereign bond repos funded through the ECB will allow everyone to stay within their mandate and will create the firepower needed.
However, the correlation between flows into hard-currency bond funds and both local-currency bond funds and equity funds has decreased significantly lately, while the correlation between EM equity fund flows and EM local-currency bond fund flows has trended higher.
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The equity market has been the beneficiary of the interdependence it has developed with the artificially overbought bond market and it will be this correlation which will cause the equity market to decline as the bond market declines.
Within seconds, bond and equity markets, which had rallied strongly, took a sharp turn to the downside.
But they cannot support their currencies as well without risking problems in the bond and equity markets.
Convertible bonds can be devised with any degree of equity-like or bond-like behavior to them, depending on the coupon and the conversion terms.
If the Fed is late in acting this time round, neither bond nor equity markets are likely to be hugely attractive at current prices.
Equity and corporate-bond markets have also been boosted by quantitative easing (QE), the process whereby central banks create money to purchase (mostly government) bonds.
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Equity and corporate-bond markets have duly responded, rallying strongly this year.
Why is it that many pensions pay substantially higher fees for their money market cash sweep than they pay their best performing bond and equity managers?
Emerging market bond and equity funds continue to see large inflows thanks to QE3 at the Fed creating a reallocation environment from lower to higher yielding assets.
Most American investors opt for broad equity or government-bond portfolios.
Over the past year, more money was poured into bond funds than equity funds.
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