In this hypothetical scenario 20% of the portfolio is invested in domestic large-cap growth, 10% in domestic large-cap value, 20% in domestic small-cap value, 10% in international equities, 25% in five-year U.S. Treasury notes and 15% in domestic long-term corporate bonds.

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Many Fed watcher are expecting the committee to announce the purchase of long-term Treasury notes in order to keep interest rates down and stoke economic growth.

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The railway ministry, which is China's largest corporate-bond issuer, used all of last year's quota for long-dated bonds and also raised an additional 50 billion yuan via short-term bills and medium-term notes.

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