In the bond sector, quality beat junk and Treasuries beat munis, but not tax adjusted.
For better or worse, there are other dynamics at work in the bond market.
One of the best ways to judge risk appetite is in the bond market.
Investors in the bond insurers seemed underwhelmed, though the overall stock market was higher.
"There's not a lot more room in the bond market for appreciation, " Saperstein says.
And so we just tell them that 2008 was a liquidity return in the bond market.
And many of the biggest names in the bond business are flashing warning signs.
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But the divergent economic performances continued, and were eventually made manifest in the bond markets.
Few Paris Club charges are creditworthy enough to have raised money in the bond market.
More likely, the Fed is creating another asset bubble, this time in the bond markets.
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When it does, we may have a repeat of that dismal forty years in the bond desert.
Could the program help spur asset bubbles and set up a potential fall in the bond market?
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But they cannot support their currencies as well without risking problems in the bond and equity markets.
So what next for Italy, and is a "Berlusconi sell-off" in the bond market in the offing?
Adding that if Berlusconi can form a government there will be an "almighty sell-off" in the bond markets.
Nor is it economic, given the issuing costs, for small companies to borrow money in the bond market.
The lower real interest rates become, the less participation there will be in the bond market from private sources.
Through its heavy buying, the BOJ can outbid others and thereby reduce the returns available in the bond market.
Earlier, there was some good news to be found in the bond markets.
For those holding 30-year bonds, a 1% rise in rates translates to a 20% drop in the bond price.
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Gains in the bond market may have also helped to offset some of your losses in the stock market.
Mr Eisman had no grounding in the bond markets he wanted to short.
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If it enacts another iteration of Quantitative Easing, the Fed may find itself the only player in the bond market.
The two biggest companies in the bond insurance business are MBIA (30, MBI) and Ambac Financial Group (22, ABK) .
The most relevant and recent example of asset class interdependence is what investors have been witnessing in the bond market.
Some analysts are looking for a confirmed top in the bond market before they will turn more bullish on stocks.
In the bond market investors face the unpleasant inability to make profits on U.S. Treasuries or investment grade corporate bonds.
Speculation about its next steps has led to more active trading in the bond, though the price has hardly changed.
The biggest gains on U.S. government debt has come from capital gains pops in the bond price, not reinvested coupon payments.
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Buffett has been making some other moves in the insurance business, which has been rocked by the disturbances in the bond market.
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