Sentences with phrase «bond buying by»

Less bond buying by the ECB and outright balance sheet reduction plus further rate rises ahead from the Fed herald the end of crisis - era monetary policies that kept financial conditions loose and buoyed risk assets.

We have government debt, corporate debt, and a much larger Fed balance sheet (which, some people argue, drove bond buying by the public), but those are offset by a significant deleveraging in household and financial sector debt.

Will they decrease the amount of treasury bonds bought by foreigners?

Interest on municipal bonds is generally exempt from federal taxes, and bonds bought by a resident of the state or other localities are typically exempt from taxes on the interest by the issuing body.

Not exact matches

Under this hypothetical policy, governments transfer money directly to taxpayers to encourage spending, a handout funded by issuing bonds with a coupon of zero and no maturity date, which central banks buy.

He shares the consensus view that the 30 - year bull market in bonds is now spent and recommends buying floating - rate notes issued by corporations that reset their coupon according to market rates every three or six months.

At Thursday's auction of a 7.37 percent 2023 bond, the Reserve Bank of India was only able to sell about 430 million rupees out of the 30 billion on offer into the market, with the remainder having to be bought by primary dealers.

The Riksbank raised its bond - buying target by $ 3.22 billion until end of June.

Inflation is a concern within Germany as it's still haunted by the hyperinflation of the 1920s and top economists — like Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann — have been noticeably cautious on too much bond buying from the ECB.

His comment followed Abe's remarks on Monday that buying foreign bonds, considered an extreme measure by many officials, may be one policy option for the BOJ.

(The devaluation of the peso brought the value of his mortgage down to $ 50,000, which he was able to pay off by buying bank bonds at a 50 percent discount.)

The exact mix of shares and contingent convertible bonds the HFSF will buy from banks in exchange for any fresh funds it will provide will be decided by the cabinet.

Investors can still play it safe by buying well - known, large - capitalization stocks, he notes, but it may be time to move money out of bonds, which continue to experience record inflows, and into stocks.

Anyone buying or selling stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, commodities or exchange - traded funds (ETFs) will be affected by the new standards.

It also means the Federal Reserve is likely to forge ahead with its plans to cut back on its bond - buying activity later this year and to ultimately end the bond - buying program by mid 2014.

Pension funds» portfolio rebalancing can be achieved by selling equities as well as buying bonds.

While offshore investors can buy bonds listed on the exchange, he said, they are discouraged by the lack of a central depositary.

In a note to clients, BAML's Savita Subramanian writes that a fourth round of bond buying (called quantitative easing, or QE) by the Federal Reserve is actually the biggest threat to stocks:

Buffett has said the best investment he ever made was not a stock or a bond or even in real estate, but buying a copy of The Intelligent Investor, a book written by Benjamin Graham.

Rather than follow the Stalin model of turning an agrarian society of Russia into a state - owned industrial superpower like the USSR - killing millions of your own people in the process, incidentally - Myerson suggests that the government own all businesses by buying the stocks and bonds of all businesses as an «investment» in the private sector.

Back in 2010 it paid $ 550 million to settle charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission that it mislead investors into buying a so - called synthetic collateralized debt obligation named Abacus, which was made up of a bundle of financial instruments tied to subprime mortgage bonds, many of which plummeted in value shortly after the deal was sold.

If Yellen's Fed fails to convince Wall Street about the policy path, a rate increase could trigger financial turmoil of the sort seen in 2013, when investors were caught off guard by the central bank signaling an end to its bond - buying program.

Some investors are now making calls that the euro zone's central bank could end its massive bond - buying program by the end of next year, with a potential rate increase in the fourth quarter.

Furthermore, the 1 percent you pay to your money manager doesn't always cover the costs of buying and selling the stocks and bonds in your portfolio or the sales charges (also known as loads) and administrative fees charged by the mutual funds your manager puts you into.

It's not the sexiest, but the «buy and hold» strategy for individual municipal bonds is by far the smartest.

It started with the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) decision to unpeg its currency from the euro earlier this month, followed by a larger - than - expected bond - buying program from the European Central Bank (ECB) on January 22.

Banks are the dealers of corporate bonds, and their willingness to take risks by buying and selling bonds has been shrinking.

To get short the markets I either have to go to cash or buy a bond fund, which admittedly turned out quite well (Read: The Proper Asset Allocation Of Stocks And Bonds By Age and see VUSUX).

What should worry you is the absence of long - term fundamental investors who will buy bonds — intermediated by dealers, sure — when everyone else is selling.

By providing liquidity to the broader eurozone (in the form of its monthly bond - buying program), the European Central Bank (ECB) is helping to limit the scale and duration of any contagion related to events in Greece.

For the uninitiated, a bond ladder is a way to spread out interest rate risk by buying bonds that mature at different times.

According to fund tracker Morningstar: «A mutual fund is a basket of stocks, bonds or other types of assets that is professionally managed by an investment company on behalf of investors who don't have the time, know - how or resources to buy a diversified collection of individual securities (stocks, bonds etc.) on their own.

The bond market's second week of the year was another setback, aided by reports of diminished interest from Japan (trimming the size of quantitative easing) and reports that Chinese officials are recommending to slow or halt its buying of Treasurys.

Remember, if the government gives us a tax cut they'll still have to make up the budget shortfall somehow, chiefly by selling more bonds to American citizens (who happen to be the same people getting the tax cut) or foreigners (who will raise the money by selling us more of their goods and services, or buying less of ours).

If you spend your tax cut you are in fact spending borrowed money, lent to you by the people who bought the bonds.

Rather than paying these pensions out of current income as it is earned or plowing their earnings back into investment in their own business, companies take their income and «financialize» it by buying stocks and bonds for their pension funds.

That said, redemptions were moderate during the first two weeks of June and even slowed for the week ending June 19 — the day that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held a press conference and announced that the Fed would likely begin backing away from its bond - buying program by the end of the year.

Reining In Rates O'Neil, one of the managers of the $ 26 billion Fidelity Total Bond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more TreasurBond Fund, said rising bond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasurbond yields could be reined in by at least three forces: Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen's commitment to a very gradual program of rate hikes, the traditional aversion to budget deficits by the Republican - controlled Congress, and buying by overseas investors who may use the recent jump in rates to snap up more Treasuries.

Asked about Greece — a special case because of the political uncertainties there and because the country continues to labor under an international bailout program overseen in part by the European Central Bank — Mr. Draghi said that the bank could buy Greek bonds.

It was almost exactly a year ago that the E.C.B. set eurozone precedent by buying government bonds and other assets.

It doesn't matter if you are a fixed income investor considering purchasing bonds issued by a company, an equity investor considering buying stock in a firm, a landlord contemplating leasing a property to an enterprise, a bank officer making a recommendation on a potential loan, or a vendor thinking about extending credit to a new customer, knowing how to calculate it in a few seconds can give you a powerful insight into the health of company.

In a further compromise, some of the risk from bond buying will be taken by the European Central Bank and some by national central banks.

Albright Capital Management, a Washington - based hedge fund backed by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, has raised about $ 75 million in recent months to buy up bonds of debt - strapped companies in places like Latin America, Africa, India, Russia and Asia, filings show.

Banks «earned their way out of debt» by lending to global speculators who used the yen loans to convert into foreign currency and buy higher - yielding assets abroad — capped by Icelandic government bonds paying 15 %, and pocketing the arbitrage difference.

In addition to raising rates, it is also reducing the size of its balance sheet by curtailing its bond buying program.

The fact that investors bought both demonstrates the extent to which institutional bond buyers have accepted social and environmentally responsible behavior by corporates as actions which should be funded.

Stocks are being retired by corporate raiders in exchange for high - interest («junk») bonds, and by corporations using their earnings to buy their own stocks rather than to make new direct investments.

This time around, the dynamics of the market are even more complicated because bond prices have recently been driven by bets on whether the Federal Reserve will ease off the bond - buying programs it has used to stimulate the economy.

And some investors may listen to their advice, believing they can reach their investment goals by buying and selling stocks and bonds at exactly the right time.

Since the global financial crisis in 2008 - 09, a combination of low inflation expectations and a bond - buying program by the Federal Reserve have helped keep bond yields low but they have climbed this year as inflation has picked up and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.