Sentences with phrase «bond market at»

Oh look, there are the hedge fund - of - funds at the head of the Conga line, followed by the CDO equity managers, the investment banks, the credit hedge funds, and the cash bond market at the tail.

These funds passively track the major stock markets and bond market at very low cost.

They trade in the bond market at prices reflecting current interest rates.

You can get real - time price information on corporate bonds you own or may be considering for purchase as well as news affecting the corporate bond market on the «Corporate Bond Market At a Glance» page.

When you buy into bond funds, the fund buys bonds for you at the secondary bond market at current values.

That is one reason why I am skeptical of the run in the high yield corporate bond market at present.

This had the unfortunate effect of removing a seemingly natural buyer from the corporate bond market at a time when the corporate bond market could least afford it.

«We are hoping «mom and pop» can do a little bit better than the bond market at a time of historically low yields.»

Indeed, the downturn in the US government - bond market at the end of 2016 and earlier this year benefited many fixed income arbitrage managers who were able to take advantage of the price decline in US Treasuries during those periods.

THAT's with the stock AND bond markets at all - time highs.

An important issue in bond markets at present is whether the recent tightening of 25 points by the US Federal Reserve marks the start of a more general uptrend in interest rates.

Bond ETFs enable retail and institutional investors to access the bond markets at known, transparent prices and with impressive liquidity.

But to the extent possible you want to end up with a portfolio of funds that give you broadly diversified access to the stock and bond markets at as low a cost as possible, ideally 0.5 % a year or less.

The easiest way to get this combination of broad diversified exposure to the stock and bond markets at a low cost is to focus on index funds.

Home Loan Rates Rise but Remain Attractive Home loan rates were able to improve slightly in the first part of January, following the post-election volatility in Stock and Bond markets at the end of 2016.

Not exact matches

In theory, at least, it's pretty simple (although the actual bond markets are fiendishly complex).

You'll be surprised at what the correlation has been between the high - yield bond market and the overall stock market.

In the Minutes from the January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve addressed the financial situation, and noted that the increasing role of bond and loan mutual funds could pose a liquidity risk if everyone tries to get out of the market at the same time.

Some in the market have attributed the sharp market swings seen during the downturns in October and December as indicating structural problems with liquidity in the market — and some fingers have been pointed at the proliferation of bond funds.

Patricia Oey, a senior analyst at Morningstar who focuses on ETFs, said investors should be aware of volatility in emerging market bonds.

Ten years ago, if you look at emerging market bonds, corporates, that was a very small and illiquid market.

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.

Mark Mobius, founding partner at Mobius Capital Partners, discusses the bond market and currencies.

The answer is straightforward: The Bank of Japan can buy government bonds on the open market, paying for them with either currency or deposits at the Bank of Japan, what economists call high - powered money.

Specifically, there are concerns about what might happen should the tide turn in the bond markets when 30 years of falling interest rates reverses at a time when the Federal Reserve is preparing to tighten monetary policy by forcing rates higher.

(If I owned, for example, $ 1,000,000 of «AAA» - rated bonds from a large US company I could very easily sell them at market price right now.

On Thursday, Argentina sold $ 7 billion in five - year and 10 - year dollar bonds in the international market at interest rates of 5.625 percent and 7 percent.

In Japan, bond yields face a demand squeeze, Yasunari Ueno, chief market economist at Mizuho Securities, said in a note last week.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

«Yet if you look at foreign ownership of domestic bonds, it's next to nothing and the market is just starting to open up,» she said, noting GIC had the «fortunate position» to be able to invest there a few years ago.

«Securitization simply means that you take the existing bonds on the market, e.g. German, French, Italian and Spanish, and «securitize» them in a tranched bond,» Claus Vistesen, euro zone economist at Patheon Macroeconomics, told CNBC.

Over the past few sessions, we've seen fairly consistent rises across European government bond markets and that's spilled over to the U.S.» said Anthony Valeri, senior vice president of fixed income research at LPL Financial.

Traditionally, most elect the target - date investment fund, which is a mutual fund that will return your various assets (stocks, bonds, and cash) at a fixed retirement date — depending on how well the market performs over time.

According to the Global Market Strategy team at JP Morgan, pension funds and insurance companies in the G4 - United States, euro zone, Japan and Britain - will buy at least $ 640 billion of bonds this year.

Tighter regulation on bond markets has crimped appetite for bonds in the region, he said, noting that subscriptions for three government bonds issued at the end of last year lagged expectations.

LONDON, May 3 - At a time when the impending withdrawal of European Central Bank stimulus was expected to hurt southern European bond markets, so - called «peripheral» euro zone debt continues to outperform its higher - rated peers.

«A bear market in bonds calls for more than a global cyclical upswing, as not all forces that dragged yields down over the past decades have suddenly vanished,» argued Peter van der Welle, a strategist at Robeco.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

«Following the U.K. election, the relative risk investors saw in European bonds came back and as the situation in Greece develops, risks will hopefully unwind and as we move into a certain environment, we can expect bond markets to continue to normalize,» Thomas Buckingham, portfolio manager of the European Equity Group at JP Morgan Asset Management, told CNBC on Monday.

If policymakers, however, resolve to have no government involvement at all, the bond market will price it out for you, but the likely outcome is a residential mortgage market that is smaller, more expensive, and less liquid.

Based on where bonds are trading today, the market is saying about 5 % of those corporate loans will go bust, or roughly $ 35 billion worth at the six biggest banks.

On average, high - yield bonds are trading at 86 cents on the dollar, meaning the market is predicting a 14 % loss on the loans.

Global uncertainty may not be a good thing for U.S. equities markets and exports, but it is driving investors toward U.S. bonds, according to Richard Clarida, global strategic advisor and managing director at Pimco.

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

«The pricing and performance of the new issues this week indicates the demand for bonds has remained strong despite the broader market weakness,» Yuriy Shchuchinov, credit strategist at BofAML, said in a note to clients.

«The wage number is definitely moving the bond market,» said John Briggs, head of strategy at NatWest Markets.

Joey, the trader at a big market maker sends out a run on ShmoGo bonds.

For now though, at least, the market mood is cheery, and that can be daunting for bond investors.

If the market weakens and all bonds are quoted 97.5 / 99.5, the NAV is 98.5, so only down 1 %, but in the real world, if you are a seller you are down at least 1.5 points (from 99 to 97.5).

«We're not haters of the bond market here at all.