Last year, Greece saw its privately held debt cut by more than half in a bond swap.
We're half a century into Bond and I think we are only in the foothills of the experience.
In the first half of this year, bond-market earnings accounted for 28% of the big banks' operating profits.
However, in the last purchase they cut their bailout bond orders to half that amount, adroitly stating holdings in the foreign reserves.
The report from the ECB that Italian bonds make up over half of its holdings from the bond-buying program is also a concern.
The September bond future added a half point to stand at session highs of 123-22 ahead of lunchtime shaving four pips off the 10-year yield to 2.96% and leaving it within a couple of basis points of the lowest since early December.
That security is why people on a fixed income rather put their savings in US government bonds and get 3%, instead of putting half their life savings into a bond like the 10 month old, higher yielding, Oppenheimer Emerging Markets (OEMAX) mutual fund.
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In recent months, many economists had suggested that the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of 2013 if job growth accelerated.
But O'Sullivan said he thinks the Fed might scale back its bond purchases in the second half of this year if job growth continues to accelerate.
One study found that the cost of issuing a bond in Mexico was about half as much as in Brazil or Chile, owing to expensive disclosure requirements in Brazil and a stamp tax in Chile, which makes issuing bonds dearer at home than abroad.
Sonderegger developed a close bond with Kroll and with his half-brother, Charlie, with whom he feels a genuine brotherly connection.
Assuming that the free market is even half as smart as we think, the bond markets would have come undone assuming even a hint of the U.S. falling into arrears with creditors.
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Didn't Fleming know that Bond could not possibly be drinking a half bottle of Pol Roger?
Indeed, some weakness in the high-yield market in the second half of March was linked to rising Treasury yields as bond prices declined.
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The first-half is that the self-fulfilling panic in the bond markets which reared its ugly head again in July is unlikely to return.
He caught the bond rally in 2004 and in the first half of 2005, and last December he called the dollar's rally in 2005.
In the first half of 2012 European companies raised more money from the bond markets than from bank loans, according to Dealogic (see chart).
The roads and landscaping were incomplete, and the community still half built, but we were connected by a strong bond with our fellow residents as the first to make this new neighbourhood.
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"It is estimated that over half the world's population have heard of James Bond which is an incredible testament to the imagination of his creator, Ian Fleming, " said Julietta Edgar, the Royal Mail's head of special stamps.
Pacific Investment Management 's Co-Chief Executive Mohamed El-Erian will single-handedly run the world's largest bond fund management company when Bill Thompson--half of the company's executive team--retires at the end of the year, Pimco said Friday.
Contracts expiring beyond one-year forward saw implied yields rise by seven basis points while government bond futures expiring in September fell by one-half point to trade at 125.81 carrying a yield of 2.94% as its yield crossed back above those available on comparable treasuries.
Blankfein's bond-currency-commodity operation soon was providing more than half of Goldman's booming trading revenue.
This is Bond resurrected, redeemed and reinvigorated, ready to face a new half-century.
About half of the remaining equity funds changed style over the period, while most bond funds remained in their style.
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).
And the bond purchases he reluctantly sanctioned in 2010 and 2011 were a lot more half-hearted than the programme of "outright monetary transactions" described, at some length, by Mr Draghi, today.
The "base" calculation includes one-half your Social Security, plus almost all your other income, including tax-exempt bond interest but not Roth withdrawals.
Roughly two and a half years ago, a well-known analyst called for a massive wave of defaults in the municipal bond market.
Such sentiments mark a significant departure from the role the German bond market has played since the European debt crisis first exploded with concerns about Greece in the first half of 2010.
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