Market-based notes and bonds purchased at premium will be amortized to call date.
The supply of Treasury bills, notes and bonds is already dropping fast.
But in general, I think the play has been over, obviously in these notes and bonds, and bond funds for that matter.
For the unenlightened, it works like this: Banks take in deposits and borrow in the capital markets, usually by issuing commercial paper, notes and bonds to raise more money which they lend out.
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There will be more bank failures no matter what, but the government wants to prevent otherwise healthy banks from unnecessarily failing because they are unable to sell short-term notes and bonds to fund their own activities.
Effective October 1, 2002, for intragovernmental investments with the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), BPD and trading partner agencies will use the interest method for amortization on market-based notes, bonds, and zero-coupon bond securities.
However, agencies may recognize market adjustments on bills, notes, bonds, and zero coupon bond securities classified as available-for-sale.
In a paper published in April he notes that those bonds and mortgage securities are worth more than their purchase prices.
Treasury prices fell as traders sold recently-purchased securities into the market after this week's auctions of three-year notes, 10-year notes and 30-year bonds.
He said the initial reaction by the bond market is a 25- to 50-basis-point spike in long-dated Treasury yields, like 10-year notes and 30-year bonds.
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This will allow it to be leveraged and possibly issue notes or bonds, taking its size from 440 billion to almost 600 billion euro.
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As rates rise, the prices of existing bonds and notes decline.
U.S. Treasury bonds and notes are rallying, pushing down yields.
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Keep an extra close eye on U.S. Treasury bonds and notes futures prices, as they are a good daily gauge of the overall worldwide investor risk appetite, or lack thereof, in the market place.
Trustees, who must balance the interests of all heirs, often favor conservative, dividend-paying stocks, bonds and Treasury notes.
As I discussed last spring, when the Spyder Trust ( SPY) was topping out in April 2012, the bond pros were buying bonds and selling notes.
This is reflected in the NOB spread as it measures the difference, or spread, between T-bonds and T-notes.
Kramer notes these assets are most likely bonds and the underlying entity has to pay interest to the bond holder.
In this hypothetical scenario 20% of the portfolio is invested in domestic large-cap growth, 10% in domestic large-cap value, 20% in domestic small-cap value, 10% in international equities, 25% in five-year U.S. Treasury notes and 15% in domestic long-term corporate bonds.
Investors are or have moved into bonds, notes, the dollar, yen and at times, stock indices.
Treasury bond investors got a taste of this last week when the yield on 10-Year Treasury Notes rose more than a quarter of one percent and prices of those bonds fell precipitously.
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Two-year Treasury notes now yield significantly more than 30-year bonds--and that's not just because in a decade or so long-term government bonds may be listed as an endangered species because of the reduction of the publicly held portion of the national debt.
Wall Street presumes that commodity notes held for more than a year get the same lenient capital gains treatment as stocks and bonds (a top rate of 15% at the moment).
Hulbert also notes that the standards used to determine whether individual investors are over-invested in bonds and under invested in stocks are unclear at the moment, and it was completely rational for such investors to avoid stocks in recent years.
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There was a lot of fear, and anti-risk trades were put on: Gold, silver, bonds, ten-year notes.
NASA, however, disputes the claims -- the agency notes that its vehicle is still traveling the magnetic highway, and it won't have officially escaped the surly bonds of the Sun until the magnetic fields shift.
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The railway ministry, which is China's largest corporate-bond issuer, used all of last year's quota for long-dated bonds and also raised an additional 50 billion yuan via short-term bills and medium-term notes.
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