Really, in the last couple years, the full ratio on bonds, historically, are negligible.
Prices on bonds issued by smaller banks are usually based on existing debt in the market.
So if you are seeking income, and relying on bonds, you might consider switching into utilities.
With corporate debt defaults low these days, the temptation is high to write insurance policies on bonds.
My technical indicators have reversed from a timely sell signal on bonds last November to a buy signal.
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Lehmann has authored numerous articles on bonds and fixed income investing both in financial columns and book form.
To hedge against a resurgence in inflation, buy gold, buy put options on bonds or take out a mortgage.
Unfortunately, little of this is good news if you are an investor who depends on bonds and other interest-paying investments.
It concentrates on bonds and is geared to those who are familiar with emerging-market debt and want to trade it.
Even before the ugly jobs report our technical indicators had already triggered a new intermediate-term buy signal on bonds from oversold levels.
Currently, 38 states exempt interest on their own municipal bonds from state income tax, but tax revenue on bonds from other states.
Low yields on bonds and cash pushed individual investors toward dividend-paying stocks.
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In court were Shane Christopher Frane, 25, and Conor Tyrone Clarence, 23, both of the Simon Community hostel on Bonds Hill, Derry.
First, with rates on bonds and traditional savings instruments crawling along near record lows, investors have little incentive to dump dividend-paying stocks.
As a result, investors holding near-in target date funds would seem to be loading up on bonds at precisely the wrong time.
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It may seem paradoxical that the spread, or risk premium, on bonds of heavily indebted companies almost always declined as interest rates rose.
Analysts say investors are increasingly putting their money into stock markets because interest rate cuts had made the return on bonds appear unattractive.
Sean Egan, founder and boss of the agency, worried that Ford relied too heavily on bonds secured against customer repayments of car loans.
To encourage the private sector to take up the slack he will slash taxes on bonds to pay for new, government-approved infrastructure projects.
In 1751 Henry Pelham's Whig government pulled together the lessons learnt on bonds to create the security of the century: the 3% consol.
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And, the only way to borrow long-term in a rising rate environment is to offer risk-averse investors higher coupons on bonds with extended maturities.
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In some cases the dividends paid on shares, divided by share prices, are even outstripping the yield on bonds issued by the same company.
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The interest on bonds is subject to the directive, for instance, but dividends on shares, bond-like insurance products or income from derivatives are not.
You can get fatter coupons on bonds from, say, a nice auto company or airline, but you will lose some of your principal doing that.
In 2011, high inflation in the emerging markets, including China, took investors out of the game and had them focused on bonds and U.S. equities.
Yet Martin Kauer, chief financial officer of Converium, a Swiss reinsurer, thinks an over-reliance on bonds might be dangerous too, if interest rates rise again.
The sad thing is this: Today investors can earn 11% on Treasury bonds with absolutely no credit risk and 9% or more tax-free on municipal bonds.
His bill would add a tax of 0.5 percent onto the sale of stocks, 0.1 percent on bonds and 0.005 percent on derivatives or other investments.
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Returns on bonds have been strong and steady over the past couple of years, and investors have flooded cash into bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.
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Clough likes bonds because he thinks that inflation is even lower than the figures show, and thus inflation-adjusted yields on bonds are higher than most people assume.
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