Sentences with phrase «bond buys as»

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In his subsequent press conference, Draghi avoided answering directly whether the ECB would go from $ 30 billion to zero, saying «we don't stop suddenly,» but also stressing that the ECB will continue buying new bonds as its old holdings mature.

So, it is a very different market than it was 10 years ago, and you're going to see a lot of corporate bond issuance as these infrastructure projects go out there, and you can capture some pretty good yields and you know what you're buying because it's a corporate bond.

As oil prices have fallen, defaults in the sector have risen — about a quarter of all corporate bond defaults in 2015 were energy related, according to Moody's — and that's made traders even more reluctant to buy.

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.

However, recently, the economic recovery seen in Portugal since the sovereign debt crisis has indeed begun affecting the way agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's see the economy, indicating that in the near future more investors could be considering buying Portuguese bonds.

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.

Finance Minister and former premier Taro Aso - who some suspect of dreaming of a come - back of his own - said on Tuesday Japan had no plan to buy foreign currency - denominated bonds as part of a monetary easing program.

Among individual banking stocks, Bankia, Credit Agricole, ING and Banco Santander are «buy» - rated names, according to Deutsche Bank, as they all have a high positive correlation to U.S. bond yields.

The interest rate on 10 - year bonds was 1.79 % at the end of 2014 — about half as much as the federal government had to offer to get investors to buy its debt a decade ago.

«If you think Puerto Rico's bonds are worth 80 cents, buy them and sell AGO, that's what we did as a hedge,» Einhorn said.

Since those investors are just looking for the highest returns, and not say buying bonds their financial advisor told them they needed bonds as part of their retirement planning, they are more likely to jump when rates rise.

QE (as it's known in shorthand) involves the central bank's buying financial assets like government bonds.

Many observers are casting as a surprise the U.S. Fed's decision not to cut back on its US$ 85 billion monthly bond buying program.

One way to truly grow your income is to buy more annuities, in which the investor has to pay you annual sums, as well as bonds that will also pay out over time.

The higher bond yields go, the more pension funds will buy as they look to lock in long - term income streams to meet their liabilities.

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

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

«I think the pressure [to increase interest rates] will be there, because the Fed in the U.S. should stop printing money, and taper off as they say,» Mr. Flaherty, referring to the dialling back of U.S. bond - buying, told CTV in an interview aired Sunday.

China could take a more measured approach, said Reinhart, and not buy new bonds as old ones mature.

Critics of the bond buying programs, known as quantitative easing or QE, warned that it would lead to runaway inflation.

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.

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.

While it's better to invest than keep money under a mattress, buying risk free securities, such as guaranteed income certificates or low - yielding government bonds, could actually be riskier than purchasing higher returning products, says Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of Toronto's TriDelta Financial Partners.

Central bankers see it as a tool they can use to calibrate their economies, like an interest - rate adjustment or creating money to buy bonds.

Such measures could include restarting ECB bond - buying programs, although Rajoy goes as far as to suggest «centralized control of [European] finances.»

Yet while the Fed has eased policy to lower joblessness and raise inflation in the wake of the 2007 - 2009 recession, central banks such as the BoE have also launched accommodative bond - buying programs despite higher - than - desired inflation rates.

These criticisms have grown as the central bank has rolled out increasingly easy policies, including three big bond - buying programs.

In her first congressional hearing as nominee to become the world's most powerful central banker, Yellen didn't seem in a hurry to scale back the Fed's massive bond buys, also known as quantitative easing (QE).

While a nine - month extension at a reduced pace is viable under current rules, another move could require more creativity as the ECB would be running low on German bonds to buy.

Certainly, it offers an attractive level for longer - term investors such as pension and insurance funds to lock in a relatively decent yield, and will tempt some portfolio managers to buy bonds rather than equities.

Rates for home loans eased up slightly as investors bought more bonds, sending yields down a few basis points.

A hundred small funds offering daily liquidity and buying bonds indiscriminately would be roughly as bad as five big funds doing the same thing.

Bullard's comments were notable because he was Ben Bernanke's sidekick in pushing the bond - buying program known as quantitative easing that the Fed adopted late last year.

Stay the course and keep buying VTSAX on the cheap and at the same time adjust your asset allocation slowly into bonds as you get older.

If foreigners stopped buying bonds, dealer inventories would adjust as the current account deficit falls.

You're still dealing with all of the same bond risks as every other investor when you buy individual bonds — interest rate risk, credit risk, inflation risk, duration risk, default risk, etc..

Bonds can act as a source of liquidity for rebalancing purposes and to buy stocks on sale.

As the Fed pares its balance sheet, it will buy fewer and fewer Treasury bonds and agency mortgage - backed securities.

I plan: 5 % — swing for the fences 10 % — save for big blue chip bargain buys that pop up throughout the year 10 % — VNQ, other than our primary residence, I have no exposure to RE, so this should help with that 15 % — VXUS, international index exposure 60 % — VTI, total stock market index (as I get older, I will be also adding BND or a bond fund, but at 32, I'm working on building equities!)

For the money markets, it's not just that the Fed is buying fewer bonds as part of the taper but as the Fed holdings roll off, the Treasury needs to reissue to the private sector in order to pay the Fed back.

The new Fed chair will likely take the reins from Bernanke in January of next year, right as the central bank dials back its unprecedented $ 85 - billion a month bond - buying program.

So the big question in the world of economics is whether or not the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates and end their bond buying program known as quantitative easing.

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.

If you buy a bond for less than face value on the secondary market (known as a market discount) and you either hold it until maturity or sell it at a profit, that gain will be subject to federal and state taxes.

Many bonds trade at negative yields because the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continue to buy bonds as part of their management of monetary policy.

More than just tempering Gross's anti-equity remarks, the longtime advocate of buying and holding equity - based index funds and ETFs went so far as to say that «equities today are more attractive relative to bonds than at any other time in history.»

When the jig is up in a couple of years, sell most of your stocks, buy bonds which will do very well as the stock market and economy implode.

As an aside, iShares 20 + year Treasury Bond ETF ($ TLT) is the regular, non-leveraged version of TMF (which ties up a lot more buying power in one's account).

This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.

The thinking is that, as the bond buying has not worked, then the best way to keep business flowing (and markets steady) would be to keep rates low, which encourages, at least theoretically, companies to borrow, expand and grow the economy.