Any such move would likely see interest rates rise and demand for bonds, particularly Treasuries, fall.
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Ditto for Bonds' 2001 campaign, when he smacked 73 home runs to break McGwire's record.
Pretty much in line with the study: decent for small stocks and blah for bonds.
The new normal, they believe, implies the end of the long bull market for bonds.
Historically, this kind of price transparency for bonds has been available only to institutional investors.
Those investors are bound to be crushed by the end of the Great Bull for bonds.
After all, prices are more transparent and dealing spreads lower than, say, for bonds or equities.
Markets for bonds, shares and currencies all took the minutes as a sign of growing hawkishness.
The real question then, is whether the surge in demand for bonds is going to vanish suddenly.
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Whoever was bidding through Goldman, even if it was the house, is maiden-less and looking for bonds.
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The average holding period for bonds acquired and sold during the Relevant Period was only 4.3 months.
Balances have risen the past few years amid investor appreciation for bonds' stabilizing effects in troubled times.
Look around for bonds or bond funds that you can sell and replace with bonds of shorter maturity.
Bonds move opposite to interest rates, so a rise in rates would be a big negative for bonds.
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Inflation will be a threat, but then again, 30 years ago, the outlook for bonds was also uncertain.
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There's not much that bond managers can do in a long bear market for bonds and still look smart.
Appetite for bonds among Spanish banks and financial institutions is on the wane.
This week, there are worries about Italy and Spain as well, with yields for bonds of these countries rising.
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Others focus on technical shifts in the demand for bonds, such as pension funds' increased desire for longer-duration assets.
Obviously the above addresses the equity portion of your mix, however the same strategy can be used for bonds.
In the credit markets for bonds, loans and credit derivatives, spreads that had been wide began to narrow (see chart).
As for bonds, gold has acted neither as a hedge nor as a safe haven, generally displaying a positive correlation.
This is either an indicator of coming inflation or, says Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, a terrific buy signal for bonds.
Lower interest rates might be bad for income generation, but they mean more demand for bonds, which means higher bond prices.
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Yields for bonds are at historically low levels, and many individual investors are worried that interest rates will rise in the future.
Even if the insurance is worthless, why pay less for bonds from a government whose finances are rated single-A just because the bonds are insured?
With ten-year U.S. Treasury yields down to 1.6%, it is statistically impossible for bonds to generate those same returns over the next decade.
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The author concludes that the economy is going to be much stronger going forward than people realize and that spells big trouble for bonds.
And, you know, I don't know if there's a parallel for Bonds unless you want to go all the way back to Jack Johnson.
Since then, demand for bonds has pushed real yields steadily lower, so that even as shares have recovered, stated pension liabilities have increased faster.
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