They seem willing to buy long-term instruments without much compensation for the extra uncertainty the far future holds.
In support of Abenomics, the Bank of Japan this past Wednesday affirmed its own policies to buy long-term debt and securities.
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It doesn't make sense to buy long-term bonds at high prices now if the market is likely to reverse soon, some market participants say.
Under the circumstances, it's a bad bet to buy long-dated bonds.
They may not want to buy long-dated bonds, which are more prone to capital losses as rates rise, at the exact time that issuers are offering higher yields.
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More helpfully, the state has intervened to buy long-term electricity contracts to sell on to the less creditworthy utilities, although that still looks something of a stopgap measure.
Under the new approach, the Fed would print new money to buy long-term mortgage or Treasury bonds but effectively tie up the money by borrowing it back for short periods at low rates.
Individuals can make choices like how to buy long-term medications (there are good, lower-cost options) and how much health insurance they need (a lot of people are over-insured for routine health costs, especially in the Medicare supplement market).
Under Operation Twist, already under way when the Federal Reserve said it would embark upon purchases of mortgage-backed securities last month, the central bank uses proceeds from the sale of short-term Treasury securities to buy long-term ones in its bid to push down long-term rates.
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Simply know the levels at which you want to buy to go long or buy to cover a short on weakness.
If SBC wanted to buy a long-distance business or start its own, it could.
IPPs are fiendishly complicated deals to arrange, requiring long-term finance from lenders, long-term agreements with utilities to buy the electricity and long-term deals with energy firms to supply the fuel.
You would think there would be a bunch of red faces, but the stock jockeys just take their ratings from buy to strong buy or from neutral to long- term hold.
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Consumers still seemed ready to buy, as long as the price was right.
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Based on the results of cost-benefit analysis, state regulators would potentially require investor-owned utilities to enter long-term contracts to buy offshore wind power.
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People tend to buy furniture for the long term anyway, because they want something beautiful, individual or historically important in their home, but they need to keep items for anywhere between 10 and 25 years before they see meaningful price appreciation.
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The revelation came on the first day of a court hearing into the US Department of Justice's attempt to block Oracle's long-running bid to buy smaller rival Peoplesoft.
These steps include the decision by the Japanese central bank to double the country's money supply and buy long-term government bonds to try to keep interest rates low.
Analysts said the move was designed to protect his larger long-term ambition, to buy the remaining shares in satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
We adopted a few in our family to address questions like whether my mom should buy long-term health insurance and where to hold our family reunion.
Suddenly, it will be possible to not only track every customer, their height, weight and age, how long they looked at each item, what they started to buy but changed their mind, how long they stood in line, and a dizzying array of other variables.
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It enabled Iraq to sell oil as long as the proceeds were used to buy food, medicines and other humanitarian supplies.
This applies to everyone from professional investors and day traders to the long-term buy and hold individual.
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Verizon has long tried to buy out the Vodafone stake, but differences over price have scuttled deals in the past.
Traders were reluctant to buy Friday ahead of a long weekend due to factors such as worries over European downgrades, he said.
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The next biggest question facing the company is whether any larger firm would want to buy it to take a long-term bet on Provenge.
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