Sentences with phrase «bonds have done»

«Don't just look at the short - term period where all bonds have done well,» he says.

It is not as if corporate bonds have done well since August, but they have done much better than the S&P 500.

Bonds have done better, due to the substantial decline in yields in recent years.

Bonds have done well in an environment marked by high demand, low interest rates and low levels of defaults, but we know that markets change.

The last decade and a half has been challenging for stocks, although bonds have done better.

In fact, our colleague Ed Studzinski recently pointed out the long term bonds have done exceptionally well this year (e.g., Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF up 26.3 % through September).

But in the past 30 years, bonds have done a lot better than stocks in many cases.

Historically, stocks have done well when the economy grows, and bonds have done well when interest rates fall.

But if nothing else, answering the questions and seeing how various blends of stocks and bonds have done in good markets and bad in the past should at least be able to help you arrive at a portfolio that's appropriate for your situation.

These bonds have done little in 2015 due to the low yields of these high quality and often short term bonds.

You forget, you know — but it is a bond you have you do not know you have until you encounter another blind person and then you remember in an instant that connection between the sighted and the non sighted.

But if the company whose bond you have didn't go bankrupt, you can still collect your interest and you will still get your full principal at maturity date.

They're both interest - paying investments, after all, so there's no reason to expect that the bonds would do better than the GICs, or vice-versa, in a non-registered account.

My favorite choice was the chance to get a seat on a charter seaplane that fit in a stop at the fantastic Whitehaven Beach, a bit like James Bond would do.

Not exact matches

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.

However, there does not appear to be much evidence that the demand for these investments is sufficient to create a yield gap between green and non-green bonds; tellingly, the province has not attempted to provide any information showing that a yield gap exists.

Several bond market pros who had expected four rate hikes said the statement did not change their view.

When rates rise, as they have done, so - called bond proxies such as consumer staples typically fall.

«If they do target aggressively the 2 percent inflation target, and undertake a significant amount of QE, that may have an impact on underlying JGB (Japanese government bond) yields as investors become concerned over Japan's debt,» he said.

«If you expect Danish central bank to do same thing [and unpeg its currency from the euro], then it would make sense to put money into Danish bonds.»

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

It's a surprise to most of his would - be investors, Strisower says, but retirement funds don't have to remain safely snuggled in mutual fund and bond investments.

Expectations are high the Bank of Japan may boost its government bond purchases at its April 3 - 4 policy review, the first under new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who has vowed to do whatever it takes to hit the BOJ's new 2 percent inflation target.

So besides being a bonding experience and sort of baptism into the company culture, giving new hires have a customer's - eye - view of the business helps them clarify priorities and be more innovative when they do start in their «real» role.

To do so, the Fed will have to buy hundreds of billions of dollars of bonds a year, starting in 2016, to replace the ones that come due.

A large share of Italian debt issued under domestic legislation does not have any contract terms and is regulated by an Italian law that gives the Italian Treasury ample latitude to restructure the debt... The composition of Italian public, however, is changing rapidly because in January 2013, Eurozone members started issuing bonds with standardized contract terms.

«I think people should continue to stay calm — if you've got a properly diversified portfolio, which the bulk of people do, you've got bonds for a reason and you've got stocks for a reason.

Since Draghi first hinted his intentions this summer — he famously said the ECB «is ready to do whatever it takes» — Italian and Spanish bond yields have fallen markedly.

That would put a floor on five - year mortgage rates of about 2.6 % — assuming the five - year bond rate doesn't fall any further.

Because hedge funds are not required to report their bond holdings to the SEC (although they do have to report equity positions), we don't know exactly who owns how much of which Puerto Rico bonds.

Wouldn't it be funny, he thought, if there was a dating app for bonding over things you don't like?

Drummond suggests that no matter how the Americans deal with the debt, it could throw Canada into a double - dip recession: «It could be a lose - lose, because if they deal with it in a draconian fashion, then they'll kill off the recovery, but if they don't deal with it at all, they're going to see lower U.S. growth, drive down the U.S. dollar, raise the bond premiums — and that would be a disaster for Canada.»

I've heard phrases like «I do not want to invest in bonds now because interest rates are going up» practically every day for the past seven years.

But the simple fact is she just doesn't know, because she doesn't know when the effect of a higher coupon has a more powerful effect on a bond's price than does a shorter term.

Announcing the purchase agreement, even simultaneously to the press release, would have done much to create a bond with followers, an «insider track» for them by which to learn the big news.

It asks for references from other general contractors for whom the subcontractor has done work, and for documentation of its bonding capacity.

In other words, does UNCERTAINTY about forward movement in the administration's program start to affect the financial markets and the market's view of the potential for reforms that have been a significant force in both the equity and bond markets since the election?

Sure, some of that had to do with Goldman beating earnings expectations, passing its Fed stress test and unexpectedly making a killing trading bonds, but the election likely factored in too, and investors can thank Clinton for that.

The idea that small companies should be able to sell small amounts of stocks and bonds to investors — which they've been prohibited from doing since the Depression — has exploded over the past few years.

If you have 10 % of your investment capital in cash in a trust company, 40 % in bonds at an independent brokerage firm, and 50 % in equities at a bank - owned firm, how many portfolios do you have?

«Investors were saying that the bond market was done and it was time to reallocate into divided - paying equities,» said Matt Hougan, president of ETF.com, but he says that trend hasn't sustained itself.

At the moment, the ECB can not purchase Greek bonds because they do not have an investment grade rating.

«You need to do the same diligence you would with any kind of financial investment,» says Ken Kirsner of Bank of America, who has helped underwrite more than 200 nonprofit bond issuances around the country.

I sent out to some people last Wednesday why I thought the CDS market would outperform ETF's, and that is still my view, and has a lot to do with the bonds that make up the high yield index and their rate risk exposure for some, and horrible convexity for others.

Sure enough, «hey, um I know you didn't want to be worked, but you know I've got a guy who said if he can get the bid back, he'd sell bonds there».

The «arbitrage» community also plays a role in these loops, especially when quoted bond «prices» don't reflect the reality of where the bonds would trade.

Being short, especially at record prices on bonds, doesn't have the same danger as being long.

So the trader has done his best to create a «picture» that the bonds are 99/100 and the street is «bid without».

They do have one client, who they are pretty sure is short the bonds, but that client is as sketchy as they come.

The trader, doesn't want to buy the bonds, but also doesn't want to lose control of the situation, so they say they would buy pay 98.5 for a couple.