Sentences with phrase «far as bonds»

As far as bonds go, I tend to avoid them because I currently have a very long - term (retirement) investment horizon.

As far as bonds, we have a massively debt financed federal government.

As far as bonds go, Rico (comment above) exaggerates when he says that «bonds are not an investment.»

Games that involve couples like badminton, tennis, table tennis are exciting and do wonders as far as bonding is concerned.

Not exact matches

«It projects Chinese hard and soft power to places as far as East Africa,» says Lam, «and it bonds China with countries... that may otherwise continue to remain dependent on the U.S.»

Only two years ago they were rating AAA all the toxic bonds that created the crisis,» said Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, adding that the downgrade was executed «not because of what Greece is doing but because of the decisions being taken by the EU that are not considered as going far enough.»

The bond market sell - off since late last week stemmed from inflation worries caused by rising commodity prices and growing Treasury supply, as well as bets the Federal Reserve would further raise key borrowing costs, analysts said.

«The big challenge is that the level of computer power that one of these things needs is pretty high,» Wilcove says, adding that as the market evolves, he can imagine a communications app for far - flung business meetings «where you're all virtually sitting around the table in different locations with one of these headsets on, James Bond - style.»

Bonds yields have fallen as safe assets attract more interest, while U.S. crude oil futures have also fallen further below $ 39 a barrel.

DoubleLine Capital's chief investment officer, Jeffrey Gundlach, is similarly wary of the signals being flashed by bonds, though he hasn't yet gone as far as to call the end of the bull market.

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

This increase in bond ownership can push prices up, and further depress long - term yields, which fall as prices rise.

Men like Vanguard founder John Bogle went so far as to sell off all but a fraction of their stocks, moving the capital to fixed income investments such as bonds.

As I've said that the 10 yr bond crossed over 3.0 % means the US$ will be going to be weaker and weaker further and further by the 1st half of 2020 yr:) Also, the commodity price esp WTI will be going up to the level of 70 - 80 $ no later than 1st half of May (at the earliest), or no later than 2nd week of June, and then it will be in the range to the end of Trump Era:)

Those returns were incredibly volatile — a stock might be down 30 % one year and up 50 % the next — but the power of owning a well - diversified portfolio of incredible businesses that churn out real profit, firms such as Coca - Cola, Walt Disney, Procter & Gamble, and Johnson & Johnson, has rewarded owners far more lucratively than bonds, real estate, cash equivalents, certificates of deposit and money markets, gold and gold coins, silver, art, or most other asset classes.

So Absolute Return is used the way most of us would use bonds or cash — and Swensen has his own position on why bonds are quite risky investments... As for retail investors, AQR have funds like QSPIX which (so far) seem to fit Yale's criteria as well as anythiAs for retail investors, AQR have funds like QSPIX which (so far) seem to fit Yale's criteria as well as anythias well as anythias anything

Finally, while there is certainly a risk that bonds deliver lousy returns going forward, I view the chances of significant nominal drawdowns as pretty far down the list of concerns, regardless of what the Fed does.

As we get further along in the business cycle, I tend to keep the maturities in my corporate bond exposure a little shorter than I would earlier in the cycle.

We believe a step - up in risk aversion has led to a structural rise in precautionary savings, further dragging down bond yields across the curve — a trend that won't quickly change, as we write in our Global macro outlook The safety premium driving low rates.

Although the yield of a 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond has risen recently to around 2.50 % — that's not too far from where it was at the beginning of 2017 (source: Bloomberg, as of 1/10/2018).

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.»

While it decided not to, the Fed did say it expected «further gradual» rate increases would be justified — and there's broad consensus that it will raise rates (which can affect the amount banks charge borrowers, as well as interest paid on bonds) at least three times this year.

This differs from quantitative easing as practiced thus far because the central bank acquires no asset from the government that it could resell to the public in the future, unlike the normal Treasury bonds currently held by the Fed.

It issued a further 1.949 billion euros in bonds maturing in 2018 as the cut - off rate declined to 4.033 percent from 4.769 percent in a tender held in November.

«Market participants will look back on this municipal green bond issuance for Massachusetts, and see it as the gateway to further green bond issuances across the many states and many cities that are hoping to access less expensive funding to improve infrastructure, protect natural resources and offer renewable energy,» says Bill Daley, Managing Director in Public Finance.

«Stocks outperformed bonds, as Edgar Lawrence Smith, Irving Fisher, and John Maynard Keynes noted as far back as the twenties.»

Trump's budget assumes borrowing rates for the 10 - year Treasury bonds will remain low, even as growth picks up and unemployment falls further.

«Whereas companies routinely reward their shareholders with higher dividends, no company in the history of finance, going back as far as the Medicis, has rewarded its bondholders by raising the interest rate on a bond.»

A liquidity crunch where bond issues become too scarce is perhaps not as bad as an inflationary bond - dumping shock, but could undermine BOJ credibility to offer further monetary support all the same.

Makes sense since during downturns bonds don't fall as far or as fast — often they'll even go up.

Particularly when yields are unlikely to fall much further (it's hard to fall far past zero after all) making bonds surely as close to a one - way bet as there is.

If, as expected, Gulf economies decide to tap global bond markets to finance deficits, they may come under further pressure to liberalize their economies.

Companies issue bonds across many maturities, from short - periods of a year to as far out as 99 years.

All this currency intervention from central bankers is not only causing stocks to rise, but bond prices have risen as their yields fall in response to news that central bankers are going to be buying bonds in an attempt to lower interest rates further still.

Bloomberg's Global Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index sank by 4 % last year to a trough in early November, then stabilized as high - yield cratered further.

The publication is a substantial asset to traders, investors and government treasury employees as they make important and far - reaching decisions regarding bonds.

As far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggestAs far as I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggestas I can tell, rising interest rates are likely to impact on QE fuelled equity overvaluations (as the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggestas the small rise so far did), but rising rates also directly hit the value of bonds and bond funds — so they appear to be much more correlated than traditional wisdom suggests.

«Britain's generous defined benefit pensions have plumbed further depths during August, reaching another record - breaking deficit of # 459.4 bn as the scramble for bond assets and the interest rate cut sent their liabilities soaring -LSB-...]

As individuals normally hold far fewer bonds in their portfolio than bond mutual funds, the chances that a default will result in a large loss for the investor are generally higher for those investing in individual bonds.

It's not going too far to say we are watching a showdown between Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and bond investors, otherwise known as the financial markets.

However, as I write in my new weekly commentary, «With Stocks on Shaky Ground, a Promising Ballast in Bonds,» this trend can only take the market so far.

A tough week for the Gold market so far as the dollar has rebounded and US Bond yields have jumped higher ahead of the FOMC minutes.

This political guy has announced that he plans to issue more short - term bonds and less long - term bonds in order to rig the yield curve further as the Fed unwinds QE.

High yield municipal bond yields have risen by 30bps in the same time period as the S&P Municipal Bond High Yield Index is down 1.76 % so far in Jbond yields have risen by 30bps in the same time period as the S&P Municipal Bond High Yield Index is down 1.76 % so far in JBond High Yield Index is down 1.76 % so far in June.

But it's essential to contain ones exuberance as regional risk can easily entangle in higher US yields, but so far the push in treasury yields has not been intense enough to cause a substantial adverse shift in risk sentiment, but caution prevails as the move higher in US Bond yields could be far from over.

As a result, there could well still be room for Canadian institutions already high usage of bond ETFs to grow even further.

In order to stimulate the economy further, the central bank has engaged in quantitative easing (QE) or the purchase of U.S. treasury bonds and mortgage debt in order to drive down long - term interest rates as well.

As each bond matures, the investor «rolls» the proceeds into a new bond at the far end of the maturity ladder time frame.

That wouldn't be the first time the island has missed a payment — as in August the small U.S. territory failed to make a $ 58 million payment on its Public Finance Corporation bonds — but it would mark the largest loan it has missed a payment on so far.

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