Sentences with phrase «t bond buying»

We are in a time of utter reverence for great and powerful Oz - like people doing not so great things to the rates of interest that would be paid to savers and prudent people (Zero Interest Rate Policy or ZIRP), and doing wonderful things for leverage (substance) users, speculators and asset owners (MBS and long - term T bond buying).

Not exact matches

Next and pre-2008 in the USA, the fed did not buy new gov» t bonds and did not do QE.

Instead, the Fed may let their $ 75B monthly T - bond purchases stop in late June (as planned) but continue to use the $ 20 - 25B monthly proceeds of maturing bonds to buy more T - bonds.

Therefore, short selling iShares 20 + Year T - bond ETF ($ TLT) is technically better than buying $ TBT.

Buying a 30 year T - Bond and then panicking about its 1 day performance because you have a 30 day time horizon is, quite frankly, silly.

I strongly recommend purchasing individual GICs, bonds or T - Bills instead of buying any bond fund.

But why pay anybody any MER at all to hold a government T - Bill or Bond when you can buy it yourself and be nearly guaranteed a positive return at maturity?

I agree that he should buy short term bonds (or GICs or T - Bills in my particular suggestion) but to buy the actual bond, not a bond fund.

Depending on your comfort level, the idea of choosing fixed income other than government bonds / GICs / cash has some appeal (especially with historically low gov» t bond yields) but just be sure you understand the products you are buying, the inherent risks, the embedded options, the liquidity, the seniority of the debt.

@Rick Francis (# 4): «If I buy a corporate bond, why canâ $ ™ t change the interest rate if the corporation defaults on some other bond?»

But if you wanted to sell your bond on Friday, no one's going to buy unless unless the buyer can earn 2.335 % on her investment — the rate at which 10 - year T - bonds closed on Friday.

Let's say you bought for $ 1,000 a 10 - year Treasury bond on November 4th, and that the bond's rate was 1.738 % — the rate at which T - bonds closed that day.

If you want to brag about how it doesn't matter that you bought stocks in the tech bubble because at least you earned dividends for the next 10 years, it's disingenuous not to mention that you'd have been better off buying T - bonds at 8 % back then and earning a hell of a lot more income with significantly less risk.

If you buy Treasury bonds directly, it may be that coupon - paying bonds are significantly cheaper than T - Bills.