The same goes for master limited partnerships in energy that the market considers the equivalent of junk bonds.

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British investors end up with net financial and other assets (mostly bonds) equivalent to 6% of GDP.

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As the price of Spanish government debt plummets, that generates losses for Spain's banks, which hold around 250bn euros of the country's government bonds, equivalent to a third of central government debt.

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This means buying the equivalent of 70% of the total long-term government bonds in markets.

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The dollar bonds were sold at three percentage points over the midswap rate, a benchmark, equivalent to a 4.03% yield.

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These best-in-breed stocks have average earnings yields of 8 percent, which is equivalent to over four times the 10-year Treasury yield, yet people are fleeing stocks for bonds, which have the lowest short-term interest rates since the 1940s.

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