Sentences with phrase «bond buying now»

Why might they have taken a pass on tapering their money printing and bond buying now?

Why might they have taken a pass on tapering their money printing and bond buying now?

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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.

One line of thinking now is that the central bank may opt to combine the two programs and buy longer - dated bonds more aggressively, then set as its new target the total balance of bond holdings or the size of its balance sheet, the sources said.

As of right now, U.S. bonds are still seen as a safe asset that people and countries buy when the global economy goes awry.

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.

Now there is a block seller, below where he bought bonds in the morning.

Now feeling trapped and getting sucked into buying bonds he doesn't want, the trader protests a little, asking what the client is doing with their overall position.

The Fed has put off plans to taper its bond - buying for now, but will likely do so in early 2014.

Now, I pick and buy my own muni bonds via Fidelity instead of using a broker at a bank or at a brokerage firm.

These bonds were bought and resold, or traded, which is comparable to what goes on now.

Well, the banks now, if they're buying a bond of Greece or somewhere else, all of a sudden they have to pay huge risk insurance premiums in order to protect themselves against the fact that Greece may simply say, «Look.

Of course, the seller of those other assets would now be forced to deploy the proceeds of the sales elsewhere, so that directly or eventually the proceeds would be used to buy U.S. government bonds.

Once it became obvious the world wasn't coming to an untimely end, the next move was to sell out of longer treasuries and buy corporate bonds and preferred stocks, particularly from financial entities that now had a government back - stop behind them.

«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?

Though the Fed is moving towards a more normal interest rate policy with a taper of stimulative bond buying, the nation has been enveloped in what is affectionately known as ZIRP (Zero interest rate policy) for many years now.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

After three bond buying programs known as Quantitative Easing (QE) flooded Wall Street with bountiful amounts of play money while failing to significantly lift wages or economic growth, the U.S. central bank now has a balance sheet that has quadrupled since the 2008 crisis to $ 4.4 trillion.

Now regardless of the investment product you choose to buy (stocks, commodities, bonds, real estate, startups), there are challenges you will face and mistakes you will make.

Some people now retired like my father have the luxury of a defined benefit pension which just about covers their basic expenses, so they can hang on to their equity portfolios as a «top up» and not need to buy bonds at all.

For those reluctant to buy bonds «now» I would like to point out that, having held an allocation to gilts for over 20 years, in all that time the future return on gilts has never looked good.

So why would anybody buy or hold bond right now?

It would certainly help explain why Government bonds are now trading at silly lows despite massive issuance and the expectation of more — pension funds buying them up to fund boomer annuities?

While I believe markets are efficient when it comes to stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities and reflect all known information at the time, in the case of bitcoin, and a few other instances like the ONLY stock I've bought in over a year (now up big), when I start to see the mainstream media reporting on something, google search volume through the roof (chart below) and lastly, when your mom asks about it — it may be signaling mainstream acceptance and further expansion of a major bubble.

-LRB-...) After years of unprecedented monetary stimulus propping up the world's financial markets, investors are now confronting the reality of an end to the Federal Reserve's bond - buying program, which, as expected, the central bank reduced by another $ 10 billion on Wednesday.

And therefore, those are the sorts of concerns, clearly as bond investors we have to have in the back of our mind because while we're still very much supported by central banks continuing to buy government bonds, the Fed [US Federal Reserve] has announced that it is beginning now to not only end the taper, that ended some time ago, they are potentially selling bonds back into the market.

Now, at that time I knew a few firms that were choking because they had a rule that said you can never buy premium bonds, because in a bankruptcy, the premium will be automatically lost.

I think we all know that Central Banks have been buying just immense sums for like over 8 years now of sovereign bonds, corporate bonds, and more recently corporate equities either directly in specific companies like the Swiss Central Banks been buying Apple and Amazon I know.

The European Central Bank, in addition to buying member country sovereign - issued debt is now buying corporate bonds, some of which are non-investment grade.

I'm less inclined to buy bonds now as I'm convinced yields will be rising sooner rather than later (although I have no crystal ball).

But now, mainly via new all - to - all electronic trading platforms, they can tell the market at what price they're willing to buy and sell a bond.

J. now while the DOW is relatively high, is it a better time to buy into bond funds, are bonds cheaper when stock is higher?

For four years now inflation has stayed resolutely below that target even as the Fed deployed an unprecedented program of bond buying and low interest rates in an effort to push prices up.

However, the question is if you sell stocks and buy bonds, do you really want to buy bonds right now, with what's going on with the interest rate cycle?»

I learned my lesson to avoid them and now I buy all of my bonds at Fidelity.

Offer price: Where the bond is trading now if you want to buy it.

Investing in a savings bond or buying a few shares of stock for a child now can mean she'll have a tidy little nest egg when she's older.

Another taboo to fall was allowing the ECB to buy Member States» bonds on the secondary market, something that has now become nearly a custom if we consider that last week the ECB bought bonds worth $ 22bn.

What is now clear is that the government did not quite use the proceeds for the purpose that was stated in the prospectus and the basis on which investors bought the bond.

Another way to get behind the effort now is to pledge to buy the bonds (via cleanenergyvictorybonds.org) after the legislation passes.

EIH will have to part with a sum of $ 30.5 million to buy back the bonds now being held by LG Display.

The EFSF will now be able to loan the full amount allotted to the fund, it will be allowed to buy sovereign bonds on the primary market, and the interest rate on loans to Greece was cut by a percentage point while the maturities of the loans were extended.

Now, we knew from the beginning that the Federal Reserve would buy the grand majority (94 %) of its nominal bonds 10 - years and shorter.

Now, maybe the Chinese will start buying Euro - denominated bonds, and sell more to the EU than they buy.

The proximate cause of this sell - off is a reappraisal of risk in the credit markets, starting first at subprime but now having spread to the riskier parts of corporate credit, namely high - yield bonds and loans to finance buy - outs.

In bonds, we continue to observe some easing of yield pressures, but with the Fed's SOMA portfolio now at $ 2.51 trillion, with a $ 2.60 trillion target, it is equally clear that the Fed buying that has almost completely financed ongoing fiscal deficits will end abruptly in a few weeks, absent a fresh round of quantitative easing.

That involves buying stocks, bonds, or other investments to be used decades from now.

The Swiss franc has appreciated quite a bit recently against the Euro as the European Central Bank (ECB) continues to print money to buy government bonds issues by Greek, Portugal, Spain and now Italy.

That greater risk is why most bond traders believe now may not be the best time to buy bonds, especially if you're new to it.

If a bond has a face value of $ 100, pays 1 % and matures in 20 years» time then you expect to receive a total of $ 120 from buying it now — $ 1 per year for 20 years and $ 100 at the end.