Since the average maturity of the Fed's bond holdings is five to ten years, the Fed will have to find a way to mop up, or "sterilise", the related bank reserves for a long time.

联储持有债券的平均到期日是五到十年，联储必须想办法在长时间内抹除，或者“清理”相关银行储备。

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A measure of a bond's maturity which takes into consideration the possibility that the issuer may call the bond before its maturity date.

一种将发行者在到期日前收回债券的可能性考虑在内的偿还期计量方法。

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Now what happens is, I now get the maturity of this bond.

现在两年期债券到期了。

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The yield-to-maturity on an indexed bond is already in real terms because the coupons are indexed to inflation.

这种债券的到期收益率,就是实际收益率,因为票息已经被通胀指数化了

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Now what happens is, I now get the maturity of this bond.

现在两年期债券到期了

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The shortest term debt instrument in the United States is the Federal Funds Rate, which is an overnight rate--one day maturity-- and the longest issued by the Government is a thirty-year government bond, which will be repaid three decades in the future.

美国最短期的债券,是联邦基金利率,隔夜拆兑,一天到期,而时间最长的国债,是一种三十年期的政府债券,未来三十年才兑现

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In 2010, iShares broke new ground when it rolled out six defined-maturity municipal-bond ETFs.

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At maturity if the bond paid in full as planned then using extreme leverage the return potential quickly gets into triple digits.

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This is not a problem if you hold a bond to maturity (unless you recently bought a newly issued long-term bond), but it will adversely impact bond fund prices.

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