Sentences with phrase «further bond buying»

However, with the economy better off than it was a few years ago and questions heard about the additional benefits of further bond buying, this effort is likely to fade away.

Not exact matches

Because bond prices tend to move in the opposite direction of stock prices, you can also buy bond funds to further balance the risk of those stock funds.

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

It's not the sexiest, but the «buy and hold» strategy for individual municipal bonds is by far the smartest.

The most widespread opinion is that the European Central Bank is going to announce a new round of bond - buying next week to try to stimulate the Eurozone economy, which will further depress the value of the euro and make the franc yet more attractive.

So Bernanke cranked up the stimulus further and had the Fed buy bonds with money that the central bank essentially creates out of thin air.

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.»

The U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here (and I suspect in Asia too): how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers; (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget...

In a further compromise, some of the risk from bond buying will be taken by the European Central Bank and some by national central banks.

These paybacks have pushed up the yen's exchange rate by 12 % against the dollar so far during 2010, prompting Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa to announce on Tuesday, October 5, that Japan had «no choice» but to «spend 5 trillion yen ($ 60 billion) to buy government bonds, corporate IOUs, real - estate investment trust funds and exchange - traded funds — the latter two a departure from past practice.»

I have been considering buying into bonds to minimise volatility and mitigate some risk and this post has got me convinced to look further into it.

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.

Amid German worry over bond - buying and a wait - and - see approach by his own vice president, Draghi is looking for consensus on what further action the ECB can take and when.

While I believe markets are efficient when it comes to stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities and reflect all known information at the time, in the case of bitcoin, and a few other instances like the ONLY stock I've bought in over a year (now up big), when I start to see the mainstream media reporting on something, google search volume through the roof (chart below) and lastly, when your mom asks about it — it may be signaling mainstream acceptance and further expansion of a major bubble.

On the other hand, if the Fed stops buying bonds before a recovery has firmly taken hold, the economy is likely to deteriorate further.

And far more critically, Spain and the bailout institutions remain in a sort of standoff; Spain will not be given a bailout (including the ECB bond buying) until it submits to strict conditions, but Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will not request a bailout until he knows in advance what the conditions will be.

Chinese authorities will allow market participants to buy onshore bonds through transactions carried out in Hong Kong, which will further broaden foreign access to China's onshore bond market.

Another thing that you learn from the text and Figure 3 is they make strange assumptions about bond returns, essentially no risk as far as I can tell (or that everyone can buy corporate bonds with no change in interest and no default risk and spend them only at maturity), and further use this to argue that the 4 % rule «should» hold only bonds, which of course is completely contrary to how the 4 % rule was derived in the first place.

One further, but minor, complication: when you buy a bond, in addition to the purchase price you also pay pro rata interest to the seller.

After hearing several presentations about indexing, where you use exchange - traded funds or index funds, to lock in the returns of various stock and bond indexes, he did some further reading on the topic and decided to buy in for his personal investments, which were being looked after by an investment adviser.

Less bond buying by the ECB and outright balance sheet reduction plus further rate rises ahead from the Fed herald the end of crisis - era monetary policies that kept financial conditions loose and buoyed risk assets.

Fund managers said the metal was bid up on expectations of further U.S. monetary easing and that bullion could sell off if Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke does not announce a new bond - buying stimulus program at an annual Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday.

There is a second issue — though many companies earn far more than they did in the past, many waste money by buying back stock, rather than retaining the funds, retiring bonds, or handing out dividends.

Siluanov has yet to disclose further details, but merely said that the Russian Ministry's goal is to make the purchase of cryptocurrencies covered by law to in the same manner as buying treasury bonds and other securities.

Those few brave souls who bought in times of low real estate market values have always realized major returns on their properties that by far exceeded any other stocks, bonds, savings certificates or any other kind of investments.

In April, the Federal Reserve pulled its stimulus back further by reducing its bond - buying program by another $ 10 billion to $ 45 billion a month.