Also, local governments put bond issues on the ballot to borrow money for various reasons.
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The company will let you put the bond back to it at par in 2004, which is good if rates rise.
Some applicants for VAT registration numbers are also being asked to put down a bond, effectively a deposit, in case they default without paying VAT.
Enstar is perhaps best remembered as providing the smoking gun testimony that put former junk bond king Michael Milkin in federal prison for manipulating the bond market.
It launches in a few months and will put their municipal bond inventory online, through E-Trade and TD Waterhouse, giving Goldman national distribution at a small cost.
If you put your whole bond portfolio into the Vanguard index fund, which is mostly in U.S. governments, you have a fairly low risk of default but a fairly high risk of not achieving a positive real return.
Should European interest rates start to rise, investors may switch back to less risky government bond markets particularly as higher interest rates tend to put heavily indebted junk-bond issuers under stress.
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So if you are 40 years old, you might put 40% in bond funds and 60% in index funds.
To help answer this question, I analyzed industry spreads and price trends to put the Sam Rayburn bond in context.
But right now, thanks to the Bernanke Put that is pushing bond rates to epic lows, many utilities have dividend yields higher than investment-grade bond yields.
Even there, much of the effort put into developing those new bond markets is thwarted by the region's formidable political problems.
The downgrade was mainly a reaction to a lack of policy response by Euro leaders, as contagion fears have put increased pressure on Spanish bond yields.
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When Texaco was hit with an outlandish multibillion-dollar award in the 1980s, the company had to put up that amount as bond in order to appeal the judgment.
It would be selling the bonds and buying the stocks because what's happened to the extent that you have bonds in your portfolio, interest rates are at rock bottom, which means that bond prices are up, the funds have done very, very well, so take some money out of the bond funds and put them into equity funds.
"I felt like everything I wanted to do with a Bond movie, I put into this film, " he was quoted as saying last year.
Although the bond-market bulls put a slowdown in the housing market at the centre of their arguments for determining whether or not the Fed ends its tightening cycle, others believe it is not as clear cut.
An advisor who goes out there and picks some of the best stock managers and bond managers and they put a portfolio together, a lot of times they pick a value stock, a growth stock, a small-cap, a large-cap.
Bit by bit, the standard components of modernity were put into place, including stock, bond and commodity markets, asset management and credit analysis.
"We tried to put them into a close, tight bond where they're right next to each other -- where the mother's still protecting them, " he says.
However, a report out of the UK showing that money supply is barely moving and a weak bond auction in Italy has put traders back into uncertainty mode.
Jessup was arrested and then released when he put up his house and land as a bond.
Now to put that into context, the equivalent UK bond yield is around 2.2% and Germany's is 1.8%.
The website has put together a handy list of all the Bond movies and their respective Rotten Tomato ratings.
As each matures, you put the principal into a nine-year bond.
Put another way, a poor quality bank bond that no one wants because the bank is in trouble is suddenly high quality debt if the Fed is prepared to swap it for a Treasury bond.
But there seem to be no clauses in the prospectuses for Greek government bonds that would trigger accelerated payment of the rest of what's owed on any particular bond in default or that would put other bonds into default: in the jargon, there are no accelerated payment or cross-default clauses.
"They can buy, sell, share or put a call virtually to any stock, bond or currency in the world, they can do it from their basement, and they can do it with information that in the past brokers would only give to their clients for a charge, " says Thomas L Friedman, of the New York Times, author of a book on globalisation.
Eric and Amanda put up Serenola as collateral to free him on bond, and by late afternoon he was home.
Here is a spreadsheet that I have put together that illustrates why a long-term bond is preferable for Ireland to the current promissory note arrangements.
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