Building infrastructure financed through bonds is the alternative we have to consider to underpin pensions.
So the bank that borrows through bonds will pay a lower fee than one borrowing from the overnight markets.
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That has helped to bring down yields on other financial assets, notably corporate bonds, which has benefited big companies by allowing them to raise money through issuing bonds rather than borrowing from banks (see chart).
Google has borrowed money through issuing bonds even while it has huge cash reserves.
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But we have a pretty good 5% position in dollar- denominated emerging market debt through Brady bonds.
Defaults are rising across a range of debt classes from commercial property through corporate bonds to consumer loans.
The German finance ministry feared the commission was trying to establish a precedent for centralized European public borrowing, through EU bonds.
In LaPaz, Skaliks likes the micro-financing story in Mexico and one way he plays that is through the bonds of Financiera Independencia.
Bankers from the Gulf hope that the middle class, particularly in the Muslim north, will turn to Islamic finance, and that firms will raise money through Islamic bonds, known as sukuk.
But there is a caveat to that, in which - in that China is a very big investor in the U.S., both through equities and more prominently through treasury bonds and treasury bills.
The fdic guarantees the bonds through maturity, but after June 2012 it reserves the right to call them.
The finance ministers of Italy and Luxembourg this month proposed raising money for European countries collectively, through common European bonds.
Oddly enough, there's no such taboo against raising dollars abroad through synthetic yuan bonds, and then wiring that money onshore.
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You can't obtain foreign bonds through an online brokerage, for instance.
This might be achieved through euro-bonds or borrowing against the EFSF.
Worse case, the assumption was the ECB would step in and purchase bonds through EFSF or ESM or the direct bond purchase program in place.
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Lloyds TSB said all customers who, on advice, bought one of the bonds through one of its branches, will receive a letter in the next couple of days.
The effectiveness of ECB purchases of government bonds through its Securities Market Program has also been weakened, analysts say, by Greece's debt restructuring, where the ECB was treated better than private investors.
But Mr Montier points out that the correlation of returns from different hedge-fund styles (which invest in a wide range of assets, from corporate bonds through to equities) has risen from around 0.3 in 1993 to 0.8 in 2009.
The EFSF is supposed to raise the money through selling AAA bonds guaranteed by the European Union (many of whose members are flat broke), then give the money to the Spanish government which in turn doles it out to the spendthrift banks.
The amount of money the Fed directly creates through the buying of bonds in the open market--the measure called M1--has ballooned (see chart).
Make sure your bonds are essential service, general obligation or revenue bonds that through thick and thin (plan on even thinner) will pay.
Bonds forged through adversity are often the strongest and Mowbray's time on the pitch is almost incidental to his five-year spell at Celtic Park.
The ECB has been widely criticized for increasing the size of its balance sheet by purchasing government bonds and through other nonstandard measures to address the euro zone's debt crisis.
They want to save more than they invest in their own economies, and are eager to help us invest more heavily (through their purchase of bonds.) This makes good demographic sense.
The central bank, under its new governor Haruhiko Kuroda, has vowed to double the monetary base through purchases of government bonds to meet a 2 percent inflation target within the next two years.
Those that do manage to issue bonds are paying through the nose for the privilege.
So far this year through March 30, mortgage bonds have rallied 0.57%, while Treasurys have handed investors a 1.29% loss.
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