Sentences with phrase «treasury bond debt»

If higher interest rates remain elevated for an enduring length of time, the government will not be in a position to provide fiscal stimulus, as a much larger percentage of its budget will go to paying back the interest on its Treasury bond debt.

Not exact matches

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

A large share of Italian debt issued under domestic legislation does not have any contract terms and is regulated by an Italian law that gives the Italian Treasury ample latitude to restructure the debt... The composition of Italian public, however, is changing rapidly because in January 2013, Eurozone members started issuing bonds with standardized contract terms.

It puts 25 % into foreign stocks, 25 % into U.S. Treasuries, and 10 % each into commodities, emerging - market currency, bank loans, high - yield bonds, and 5 % each into TIPS and local - currency emerging - market debt.

These include currency - hedged ETFs, triple - levered ETFs based on commodities, unconstrained bond funds with short positions betting against U.S. Treasurys, private equity funds, emerging market debt instruments, historically less - liquid bank loan funds, and all manner of actively managed strategies packaged in supposedly easy to buy and sell wrappers.

Even a debt - ceiling breach of a week or two during which the U.S. Treasury keeps making principal and interest payments to bond holders might hurt the U.S.'s rating.

Bonds trimmed gains Tuesday after the Treasury Department kicked off this week's $ 58 billion debt supply.

The U.S. 10 - Year Bond is a debt obligation note by The United States Treasury, that has the eventual maturity of 10 years.

The yield on a Treasury bill represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator of the government debt situation.

an interest - bearing promise to pay a specified sum of money (the principal amount) on a specific date; bonds are a form of debt obligation; categories of bonds are corporate, municipal, treasury, agency / GSE

debt obligations of the U.S. government that are issued at various intervals and with various maturities; revenue from these bonds is used to raise capital and / or refund outstanding debt; since Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, they are generally considered to be free from credit risk and thus typically carry lower yields than other securities; the interest paid by Treasuries is exempt from state and local tax, but is subject to federal taxes and may be subject to the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT); U.S. Treasury securities include Treasury bills, Treasury notes, Treasury bonds, zero - coupon bonds, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), and Treasury Auctions

«As the U.S. economy slowed and Europe's debt crisis worsened, investors sought the safety of Treasuries and sold the bonds PIMCO had bet on, leaving the fund trailing 89 % of competitors in August and 67 % this year through Sept. 8.»

Bloomberg also said that fund manager Bill Gross raised the amount of insurance the fund provides on sovereign debt and invested $ 1.3 billion into Italian Treasury bonds linked to inflation.

But longer - dated bonds fell over inflation fears; prices for 30 - year debt sank and fell most of the day for the benchmark 10 - year Treasury, though the latter turned moderately positive at day's end.

The iShares 10 - 20 Year Treasury Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of debt issued by the U.S. Treasury.

The iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF tracks a market - weighted index of debt issued by the US Treasury with remaining maturities of 20 years or more.

It's easier for them simply to swap their junk mortgages to the Treasury or Federal Reserve for full - value U.S. Treasury bonds, and make the government take the loss — and presumably levy taxes to cover the interest charges on the augmented debt!

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Sure, you can devalue those claims through inflation, but only if the debt is in the form of long - maturity bonds (which is why the recent discussion of issuing 50 - 100 year Treasury bonds seems understandable but also a bit nefarious).

Because Treasuries are safe, they offer a lower return than riskier debt instruments, such as corporate bonds.

Central banks throughout the world presently hold some $ 2.5 trillion of U.S. Treasury bonds, and another trillion dollars in private - sector U.S. dollar debt.

debt obligations of the U.S. Government with maturities of 10 years or longer; coupon interest for Treasury bonds is exempt from state and local taxes, but is federally taxable; interest income may also be subject to alternative minimum tax

the initial sale of U.S. debt obligations and new issues, offered and purchased directly from the U.S. government at a face value set at auction; these securities are auctioned in a single - priced, Dutch auction; auctions are held with the following frequencies: Treasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and NTreasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and Ntreasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and Ntreasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November.

Lower taxes would likely lead to larger deficits, which could require the Treasury to issue more debt, increasing the supply of government bonds on the market.

«With the Fed, for now, no longer in the bond buying business, but rather net selling its debt holdings, who will lend needed capital to the US Treasury, especially if the deficit is growing?

Of this overall increase, $ 2.5 trillion has gone into Treasury notes and bonds, while $ 1.75 trillion has been invested in MBS and housing - agency debt securities.

The fund held $ 75 billion in U.S. Treasuries at the end of the first quarter, $ 22 billion in Japanese government bonds and $ 14 billion in Germany's debt.

Government of Canada marketable debt, which includes treasury bills and marketable bonds, is distributed through competitive auctions to Government Securities Distributors, a group of banks and investment dealers in the Canadian market.

The minimal dividends from traditional CDs and high - quality Treasury bonds leaves little to be desired when compared to corporate or municipal debt yielding magnitudes of greater income.

It will buy $ 600 billion worth of US long - term bonds in the open market, close to 7 % of all Treasury securities in public hands, or about the amount the debt that the federal government will issue over that time period.

S&P ratings agency issued a statement reaffirming US Treasury bond AAA credit rating, but they issued a negative outlook which means there's a 1 in 3 chance of lowering the debt rating in the next 2 years.

At present, investors have no reasonable incentive at all to «lock in» the prospective returns implied by current prices of stocks or long - term bonds (though we suspect that 10 - year Treasuries may benefit over a short horizon due to continued economic risks and still - unresolved debt concerns in Europe, which has already entered an economic downturn).

TeenAnalyst Advice: Treasury debt is offered in a number of different forms, such as?Treasury bills: maturities less than a year.Treasury notes: maturities of 1 - 10 years.Treasury bonds: maturities over 10 years.

For an ETF investor with exposure to 10 - year and longer - dated debt through funds such as the iShares 7 - 10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF A-51) and the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT A-85), this period of quiet in the fed funds rate looked like this for their portfolios:

The iShares International Treasury Bond ETF tracks a market weighted index of local currency non-US government issued debt.

The BAA spread refers to the yield on corporate bonds above the rate on comparable maturity Treasury debt, and is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market.

The credit spread is the yield the corporate bonds less the yield on comparable maturity Treasury debt.

«Gold ranks higher than all European sovereign debt markets, and trails only US Treasuries and Japanese government bonds.

China is the largest foreign holder of American debt, holding about $ 1.17 trillion in United States bonds, notes and bills in January, according to the Treasury Department.

In 2015, munis, as represented by the Barclays Municipal Bond Index, were actually the top fixed - income asset class, beating both Treasuries and corporate debt.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

If we're no longer a bull market in bonds, then the U.S treasury market maybe become more sensitive to U.S debts and deficits.

The U.S. territory and the federal government have discussed swapping some of the island's $ 72 bln debt for a new bond paid from a Treasury - run kitty.

Still, we've observed diminishing returns from the Fed's interventions, there is no political tolerance for the Fed to intervene in securities involving any credit risk that would be borne by U.S. citizens (purchasing European sovereign debt, for example), and the yield on the 10 - year Treasury bond is already down to 1.7 %, which is far below where it stood when prior interventions were initiated.

FRA: Chris, on your article you mentioned there could be downward pressure on long - term bond yields as the U.S. treasury concentrates future debt issuance on the short - term majorities.

The Fed's go - to move is tweaking its target for the federal funds rate, which is what banks charge one another for loans and the benchmark for our rates on mortgages, credit cards and other debts, as well as savings accounts, CDs and Treasury bonds.

Furthermore, he noted: «If there had been no public debt, and no means of disbursing this large sum [$ 45 million since March 1853 by Treasury bond repurchases] and again giving it to the channels of commerce, the accumulated [sterilized] sum would have acted fatally on the banks and on trade.

State Street does offer separate exposure to corporates and government debt, but neither the SPDR Barclays International Treasury Bond ETF (BWX) nor the SPDR Barclays International Corporate Bond ETF (IBND) are currency hedged.

We believe that overall demand for U.S. Treasury debt may decline, which is an important changing dynamic for the bond market.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Investors have piled into US treasury bonds in recent years to escape such financial scares as the eurozone debt crisis and slowing growth in ChDEBT By Gordon Platt Investors have piled into US treasury bonds in recent years to escape such financial scares as the eurozone debt crisis and slowing growth in Chdebt crisis and slowing growth in China.