Sentences with phrase «government bonds held»

As I understand it the Central Bank prints money, or creates it in a computer and uses it to buy back Government Bonds held by banks and other financial institutions.

The US Government bonds held are a convenient accounting fiction to show that the taxes paid have been spent for other purposes.

Interest earned on the government bonds held by the trust funds provided the remaining 10.1 % of income.

Net corporate debt (corporate debt minus offshore cash and government bonds held by corporations) is actually pretty low.

So we have to wonder, is it possible that Saudi Arabia is preparing to weaken the dollar by liquidating their US government bond holdings, boosting the price of oil before their IPO?

If you own a bond mutual fund or ETF (exchange - traded fund), you'll need to calculate the amount of income you earned from the fund's government bond holdings (if any) in order to take advantage of this exemption when you file your taxes — it won't be reflected on the tax forms issued by your investment company.

Not exact matches

This is due to the fact that the reduction in private sector held government bond supply has been reduced which has shifted demand onto the corporate and muni markets.

Compare that with the 1.5 % they'd get from holding a 10 - year Government of Canada bond.

And so what Marks is saying is that it does not matter if your portfolio holds a bunch of, say, «AAA» - rated corporate bonds and highly - rated government bonds like US Treasuries, which are, in theory, highly liquid assets.

U.S. banks would therefore not be able to trade or hold Canadian federal and provincial government bonds.

During the 19 th century, government bonds were often held by London - based investors.

As the Fed pares back bond holdings, the U.S. government brings more to market.

As the Christian Science Monitor noted, that's probably a more realistic concern for China, which holds $ 1.3 trillion in U.S. government bonds, than Washington missing interest or principal payments.

«Banks could hold more equities and investment funds instead of holding government bonds,» Taguchi told CNBC.

And «in most geographies,» banks hold these domestic government bonds mainly in» «available - for - sale» portfolio buckets, where they have to be marked - to - market.»

The yield on a Treasury bill represents the return an investor will receive by holding the bond to maturity, and should be monitored closely as an indicator of the government debt situation.

Reserves are held primarily in the form of government bonds and reserve accumulation is much greater relative to trade.

The option to hold a bond to maturity and «get your money back» (let's assume no default risk, you know, like we used to assume for US government bonds) is, apparently, greatly valued by many but is in reality valueless.

When savings account rates and yields on government bonds are low, gold suddenly becomes much more attractive to hold as a store of value.

Newly issued Treasuries can be purchased at auctions held by the government, while previously issued bonds can be purchased on the secondary market.

With funds managers holding about 15 - 20 per cent of assets in domestic bonds, the change in the composition of household assets has translated into higher demand for bonds — a demand which is no longer being met by government issues.

Basically, emerging market and domestic blue chip holdings can both fluctuate between 25 % and 35 % while 35 to 45 % of the portfolio must be allocated to government bonds.

For example, an allocation strategy might include the requirement to hold 30 % in emerging market equities, 30 % in domestic blue chips and 40 % in government bonds with a corridor of + / - 5 % for each asset class.

The Federal government is expected to boost the amount it intends to borrow in the coming months, as the Treasury contends with declining tax receipts as a result of the recent corporate and personal tax cuts, as well as widening budget deficits and a Federal Reserve that is slowly reducing its own holdings of government bonds.

Fears of similar upsets appear to be holding back investment flows into government bonds, while thirst for income has boosted other fixed income assets such as credit.

A CORE HOLDING FOR ANY PORTFOLIO This Fund seeks high current income and some long - term capital appreciation by investing primarily in Canadian federal and provincial government and corporate bonds, debentures and short - term notes.

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.

Such protectionism leaves little option for China and other countries except to hold their currencies stable by purchasing U.S. and European government bonds.

the initial sale of U.S. debt obligations and new issues, offered and purchased directly from the U.S. government at a face value set at auction; these securities are auctioned in a single - priced, Dutch auction; auctions are held with the following frequencies: Treasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November.

Today, however, EE Government Savings Bonds only pay 3.5 % if you hold them for 20 years.

For calculations of cash and other investable assets, a hybrid return based on holdings in cash, government bonds, equities and commodities is applied.

«the probability that the investor holding stocks will double her capital every 10 years after inflation, quadruple every 20, combined with 100 % odd that she will outperform T - bills or government bonds in 20 years, can hardly be called risky.

Foreigners held 574 billion yuan, or about $ 87 billion, of Chinese central government bonds in November, official data showed, up 35 percent year on year.

The fund held $ 75 billion in U.S. Treasuries at the end of the first quarter, $ 22 billion in Japanese government bonds and $ 14 billion in Germany's debt.

Base money and the central bank's holdings of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) each have swollen to almost ￥ 400 trillion ($ 3.9 trillion), which is now 80 percent of the country's GDP, and they continue to expand at a pace of ￥ 80 trillion ($ 780 billion) annually.

Assets likely to be held by private investors include: cash in bank deposits, securities (such as shares issued by private companies, and government or corporate bonds), property, insurance policies, foreign currencies, cars, art and antiques.

In other words, the interest that the US government pays on the Treasury bonds, notes and bills held by the Fed gets returned to the government.

This money too can be spent on foreign assets, real estate, stocks, bonds, luxury cars, clothing, and the purchase of political favors, as well as to pay taxes to foreign governments on these holdings and the income they generate.

The Fed has been in the news lately because it plans to reduce its holdings of longer - term government bonds.

«Indian government bonds have a strong upside potential but we want to wait until the next budget to decide wheter to increase or not our 8 % holdings,» he said.

And if most governments in the world have been financing their budgets with debt, the minute the debt deflation hit, that's essentially the bond market saying, «hold on now it's going to cost you a lot more if you want to continue financing your budget».

Central banks tend to hold reserves in government bonds, which are easy to buy and sell.

Examples of will substitutes include: life insurance, retirement accounts, annuities, custodial accounts, trusts, government savings bonds, property held by joint tenancy, property transferred by deeds of title or gifts, and payable - on - death or transfer - on - death accounts.

Government bonds are historically one of the hardest hit asset classes when rates rise, and yet they're often the lion's share holding in many fixed income portfolios.

Though the ECB has acknowledged that one of the main factors underlying the eurozone's stagnation is a lack of credit growth, any potential use of QE seems unlikely to make much of an impact in this regard, even if an announcement of QE could drive yields down further, making it even less attractive for banks to hold government bonds.

As anticipated, the ECB held its policy rates constant with the deposit rate remaining at -0.4 % and monthly government bond purchases of $ 60bn euro, despite a slightly brighter outlook on GDP growth, which is expected to rise to 2.2 % in 2017, Mario Draghi announced during yesterday's ECB monetary policy meeting.

In their November 2016 paper entitled «Applying a Systematic Investment Process to Distributive Portfolios: A 150 Year Study Demonstrating Enhanced Outcomes Through Trend Following», Jon Robinson, Brandon Langley, David Childs, Joe Crawford and Ira Ross compare retirement portfolio performances for variations of the following three strategies that may hold a broad stock market index, a 10 - year government bond index or cash (3 - month government bills) in the U.S., UK or Japan:

This does not account for a significant chunk of Cuomo's investment income, $ 27,803, which was tax - exempt interest on government bonds that the governor holds through a blind trust account with AMG National Bank.

(i.e. there governmental bond holdings, to make it possible to compare what they would lose by the government defaulting as compared to what they would gain by not being taxed to repay the debt over X years?

Count 12 of the criminal charge, which bordered on conspiracy to steal and punishable under Section 516 of the Criminal Code law, Cap C. 16 Laws of Ekiti State, 2010 reads, «That you Dr John Kayode Fayemi and Mr Vincent Dapo Kolawole, while holding the offices of the Executive Governor of Ekiti State of Nigeria and Commissioner for Finance respectively, sometime between 2011 and 2014, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, conspired to steal the sum of N2, 750,000,000.00 (N2.75 billion) being the sum of money earmarked in the Bond Prospectus titled; «Ekiti State Government of Nigeria, Offer for Subscription of N20, 000,000,000 (N20 billion).