Sentences with phrase «drove bond buying»

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.

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Volcker, capital requirements, etc., drive up the cost of immediacy, but they don't increase the risk of a crash, because bond dealers were never in the business of buying all the bonds all the way down.

Central bank bond - buying programs — or quantitative easing — have been the key factor driving yields to record lows.

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.

Its aggressive post-crisis monetary policy to drive down interest rates made the buying and selling of bonds unprofitable.

Students in every mainstream macroeconomics class, and that means almost all students, would have predicted, based on the nonsense they were learning, that the high deficits and high public debt ratios in Japan at the time, should have driven interest rates sky high, that bond markets should have stopped buying government bonds, that the government should have run out of money, and all the time that these disasters were unfolding, that inflation should have been be galloping towards hyperinflation.

The yields on these extremely short - term vehicles just about disappeared as the Federal Reserve's program of bond - buying, known as Quantitative Easing, and other aggressive monetary policy measures drove down rates.

I talk often about the «democratization» of the bond market that ETFs have driven, and it seems natural to assume that the big winners are everyday investors who can have difficulty buying and trading bonds themselves.

Typically, investors may be driven to buy something familiar, such as a bond fund or individual corporate bonds for fixed income exposure, but if you're willing to take a little bit of risk, you can check out a Lending Club investment.

On other pages a hat-less Ben Hogan signs autographs for youngsters next to a sign proclaiming BUY MORE WAR BONDS; a phalanx of men pushes grass mowers past the Pinehurst clubhouse in the 1930s; Fred Astaire plays miniature golf with a lady on the roof of a Manhattan hotel; Babe Didrikson Zaharias, her knee - length skirt billowing, tees off at Tulsa's Southern Hills Country Club at the 1946 Women's Amateur; and a shirtless lefthander with a grip from hell Hails away on the driving range at the Ala Wai Golf Course in Honolulu.

The town board's interest in acquiring land for open space and other community purposes has been in high gear this month, as it also voted to issue a $ 2 million bond to buy 12 acres at 359 Pantigo Road and scheduled or held hearings on the purchase of properties on Old Stone Highway in Springs and on West Lake Drive in Montauk.

They've also helped drive down long - term interest rates by buying up government bonds and mortgages through a strategy known as «quantitative easing,» or QE.

In simpler language, if US bonds pay higher interest than international bonds, global investors buy more USD - denominated bonds, driving USD higher in value.

The ECB and Bank of England (BoE) both started buying non-financial corporate bonds this year, driving down corporate credit spreads globally.

In order to lure investors away from Treasuries to buy mortgage bonds lenders have to Continue reading Update on the 10 yr Treasury rate which drives Multifamily, Commercial Real Estate and Home loan rates.

I talk often about the «democratization» of the bond market that ETFs have driven, and it seems natural to assume that the big winners are everyday investors who can have difficulty buying and trading bonds themselves.

The yield on the two - year Treasury dropped 0.28 percentage points, the most since 2008, signalling investors were driving prices up as they rushed to buy the safe - haven asset (bond yields and prices move inverse to each other.

Driving interest rates lower and lower caused bond prices to keep rising higher and higher, which is the only reason investors would buy negative - yielding government bonds.

The incremental buying by central banks competed for the available supply with natural demand from those seeking income producing assets, driving up bond prices and down yields.

If the country is economically unstable which is driving up the yield then isn't it a good time to buy the Greek bonds?

The need for short - dated tax - free muni bonds drives hedge funds (typically) to buy long munis and sell short term debt to finance the bonds, which tax - free money market funds buy.

«This rate change is driven by the fact that bond yields have fallen and we are in what is another busy season for buying a home,» said BMO spokesman Paul Gammal on Wednesday.

In fact, you can't even drive down to your local bank anymore and buy a savings bond.

If you choose not to buy stocks, your immediate option is to put your money in bonds and the base rate that drives the bond market is the yield on a riskless (or close to riskless) investment.

Driven by a flight to safety, investors bought more U.S. Treasury bonds, keeping 10 - year treasury yields below 2.0 percent during most of the fourth quarter.

The Federal Reserve said last week it would try to support that recovery — and, in turn, drive down the high unemployment rate — by launching another round of bond - buying designed to drive down already historically low mortgage rates.