This is reflected in the NOB spread as it measures the difference, or spread, between T-bonds and T-notes.
Is it really true that a lot of fans can't stand Barry Bonds, or is it that the media doesn't like Barry Bonds?
Currently, the Treasury yield curve ranges from 0.11% for 3-month T-bills, to 2.85% for 30-year T-bonds.
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T-bonds now, not only will they net a tidy profit, there is a good chance they will get out at the top of the market.
And that means T-bonds should outperform all the other asset classes for a while, as they have done this year, although obviously there will be periodic corrections.
The difference is that the flaky-currency players don't buy dollar-denominated bonds and don't buy longer-term paper.
"Unfortunately, Kemper couldn't sell the bonds, so we sued them, " he says.
You can't obtain foreign bonds through an online brokerage, for instance.
Lawrence Caplan, a senior vice president at Sanders Morris Harris, a Houston asset management company, says he doesn't buy mortgage bonds for his clients.
If the Giants had really, really cared about the record and if they had really cared about the history instead of trying to pay off their stadium, they wouldn't have brought Bonds back in the first place.
But the New York pension fund didn't own any of the bonds at issue, so it won't get any recovery there.
The stock market isn't always going to go up, and you may find the bonds won't get converted and you are stuck with debt.
Critics of the SIV bailout plan have said it does nothing more than shuffle around paper and that it doesn't address the main issue: Bonds and short-term debt can't be priced because there's a dearth of buyers.
Many investors harbor the misconception that they can't lose money in bonds, "and that's not the case, " she says.
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Veracity bought the fiber system from Provo but couldn't pay off construction bonds and sold it back to the city.
In the upper deck, there were the two guys wearing T-shirts with Bonds' number and the word juiced on the back.
The first salvo was last month's proposal by the European Union to ban so-called naked credit-default swaps those in which buyers don't own the underlying bonds.
Michael O'Toole, a senior director of government relations at the American Payroll Association, a San Antonio-based trade group, says small payroll firms couldn't afford to post bonds for their clients.
But outside the Bay Area, fans largely disliked him, and veteran Sacramento Bee baseball reporter Nick Peters says it won't be easy for Bonds to find a home next year.
However, income from muni bonds doesn't count as investment income when calculating the surtax.
But CIC Chairman Lou Jiwei said Monday that the fund wouldn't invest in European government bonds.
Until recently, those bonds didn't face much risk from refinancing or repayment because they were troubled.
Straight foreign bonds aren't carried in inventory by big retail firms like A.G.
So people who say our business was leveraging with junk bonds don't understand what we were doing.
But countering mandates with bonds doesn't exactly make for a rousing rallying cry.
For example, Charles Schwab doesn't list them with other bonds on its website.
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