Although it issued them, Russia has decided that these bonds are someone else's problem.
Their scheme involved inflating the value of these bonds and hiding losses associated with them.
However, some of these bonds do not pay interest, like the U.K.-premium bonds.
The officials and their Afghan allies have had less success, however, breaking these bonds.
You can buy these bonds at a discount and get nearly 8% yield in dollar terms.
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However, almost all of the interest paid from these bonds stays in Ireland.
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Anti-airport campaigners say that these bonds would land the city in deep financial trouble.
Although these bonds may be splendid business for sellers, they are far from riskless.
These bonds are bought by a wide range of investors, including insurance companies and hedge funds.
The yields on these bonds will once again be at discounts to Treasuries.
Trading activity is therefore limited in these bonds, creating opportunity for some but restricting liquidity for others.
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Interest income on these bonds is not taxable, giving them a distinct advantage in the financial marketplace.
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These bonds are priced on top of the 30 year triple-A curve at a yield of 4.40%.
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What caused that was that many of these bonds were in fact being held by leveraged institutions.
One of the selling points for some of these bonds is that they are insured against default.
In effect, previous holders of these bonds have seen five years of income wiped out by capital erosion.
At present, we can have no guarantee that the sales of these bonds will occur at par value.
The longer the Fed pursues monetary expansion, the greater the risk associated with the accumulation of these bonds.
Unlike most municipal paper, these bonds were taxable and priced at par to yield 8% to maturity in 2006.
Mainly, why were these bonds sold for a 5% discount to the market price and whose decision was it?
Both companies guarantee the creditworthiness of these bonds, but not the interest-rate risk.
The money received for these bonds would have been effectively withdrawn from circulation.
So this means no repayment of principal on these bonds for 27 years.
At the moment, foreign central banks are the star bidders every time these bonds are put up for auction.
And as that tightens, the interest paid on these bonds tends to moderate because the risks are gradually being reduced.
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But there is still not much of a secondary market for these bonds, which are mostly bought by commercial banks.
Given the high price and lower yield, many of these bonds are becoming callable at prices below their current levels.
In another regard, these bonds may be of interest to investors looking to have a little fun with their portfolio.
These bonds were offered by the Russian government as compensation for those unwise enough to have held hard-currency deposits in Soviet banks.
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