The movement in major government bond yields - the implied interest rate that countries pay to borrow money - was small - an indication that bond investors saw limited risks at the moment.
The nice way to default will be through a restructuring, extending the payments way beyond three years, and asking investors to take a small haircut on the bond price.
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The move failed to reverse the horrendous losses suffered by equity investors in recent weeks, but it had a small positive effect in the bond markets, the immediate object of the exercise.
That might be good for Fidelity, which has a huge internal market for shares and an investment in alternative trading systems, but not for small investors: in the bond market, which is electronic, they are routinely stuffed.
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European stocks closed with just small losses overall and sovereign-bond yields fell from their highs, helped by positive U.S. economic data and support for Greece in the euro zone.
Nor is it economic, given the issuing costs, for small companies to borrow money in the bond market.
Regulation is only one reason why the corporate-bond market has remained so small.
But bond trading provides only a small part of total profits.
Another problem is that corporate-bond issues tend to be small.
They are John Hancock Bond Fund, John Hancock Small Cap Equity Fund, John Hancock Strategic Income Fund, John Hancock Classic Value Fund, John Hancock Sovereign Investors Fund and John Hancock U.S. Global Leaders Fund.
The long-duration index has also recovered quickly from adversity, helped in no small measure by the bullish tint to the bond market over the past decade.
He became head of the Bundesbank in May after Axel Weber resigned because of his discomfort with the ECB's (then small-scale) interventions in sovereign-bond markets, which were designed to keep credit flowing to banks and businesses.
At least 10% of the bond issuance will likely be reserved for small investors, the official said.
That points to an extra one percentage point on interest rates for the higher risk that comes with being small and in an illiquid part of the government bond market.
The JOBS Act, which became law in April, was designed to cut red tape and reduce the burdens of financial disclosure for small companies seeking to raise capital in the stock and bond markets.
The apocalyptic tax consequence of being a passive investor in small business loans stops virtually all foreign investors from participating directly in the U.S. small business loan market while driving their investment dollars into the corporate bond market.
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Some small countries, like Iraq, don't have functioning treasury-bond markets but have sold foreign-currency bonds internationally, giving fund managers another avenue to invest in them.
Essentially, the Debt Supercycle is the decades-long growth of debt from small and easily-dealt-with levels, to a point where bond markets rebel and the debt has to be restructured or reduced or a program of austerity must be undertaken to bring the debt back to manageable proportions.
Twitter sentiment is about 3:1 positive to negative, for James Bond and more than 4:1 positive for Skyfall, a small suggestion that this is a very well liked version in the franchise.
For all the disadvantages that small businesses have, one asset they have no excuse for lacking is a tight bond with their customers.
Some people include things as small as a tenth of a nanometre, which is about the size of the bond between two carbon atoms.
They believe that the primates, which live in very large social groups, are using the verbal exchanges to bond with each other, in a similar way to how humans might use small talk.
The wobbles on Wall Street and the rise in bond yields in recent weeks suggest that the markets will not be shocked by a small rise now.
The meat and potatoes of this bond recommendation are that the new slimmed down, post-bankruptcy CIT is lending to small- and medium-sized businesses.
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.
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