Sentences with phrase «as riskless»

Also, the Greek precedence indicates that EU bond holders can loose 75 % of their value, and can not be regarded as riskless assets.

PG and JNJ, the yields may be under 3.2 % but they too are as riskless or low risk as you can get.

Not exact matches

Riskless transaction: A transaction by a broker / dealer who, upon a customer's request, buys a security for its own account first, then sells it to the customer as a dealer, and charges a markup.

Why the Federal government would assume all the credit risk of a mortgage and then buy it at a healthy premium as a «riskless» asset is an interesting question.

Monetary finance isn't riskless, Mr. Turner says, but the alternatives may be worse: stagnation and deflation, or perpetually low interest rates that fuel dangerous bubbles: «The money finance option should not be excluded as taboo.»

Here, the forward price represents the expected future value of the underlying discounted at the risk free rate — as any deviation from the theoretical price will afford investors a riskless profit opportunity and should be arbitraged away.

Now, it's not a riskless bond portfolio, as you can tell by the yield.

They were holding minimum reserves because a guy named Geithner at the New York Federal Reserve ruled that since the values of the underlying assets were increasing, they could consider the loans practically «riskless» as long as they carried default insurance.