Sentences with phrase «in trading bonds»

Another point is that there can be mark - ups in bonds and thus it isn't necessarily that you are making more in trading bonds assuming one is buying bonds on the secondary market that may not be as liquid as a mutual fund.

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LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

The dollar has rallied through much of the past week as concerns over the U.S. - China trade dispute receded, and as the U.S. 10 - year bond yield shot past 3 percent for the first time in four years.

IIF noted in a recent report that plans to privatize several state - owned enterprises beyond the Aramco deal, a doubling in the size of the domestic stock market and the trading of local currency government bonds on the Saudi exchange, which began this month, all deepen the kingdom's capital markets.

The firm also notes that a recent report from the New York Fed, which we wrote about here, discusses the role that electronic and automated trading could be playing in the bond market, particularly how these dynamics may have exacerbated the bond «flash crash,» an event JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said is the kind of thing that happens «once every 3 billion years or so.»

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks.

Cut in compensation of about 10 % came in a year when the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.

Prices of the riskiest portions of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) have fallen 50 % as of the end mid-December since mid-year, and are now trading at $ 0.25 for every dollar that investors have put in the structured bonds.

Citigroup cut Chief Executive Michael Corbat's pay by about 10 % in 2014, a year in which the bank's profit nearly halved due to higher legal costs and a slump in bond trading.

The Federal Reserve was a con, and in order to keep the system solvent it traded heavily discounted bonds in a «shadow market» only available to the elite of the elite.

Trump's apparent desire to rewrite trade rules has been the biggest reason for volatility in the stock and bond markets.

This, the office which Rudy Giuliani led to national prominence with his late - 1980s busts of junk - bond king Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and the Drexel Burnham insider - trading ring, is one of the few outfits in the country that even know how to prosecute complex securities crimes.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

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.

Germany's benchmark 10 - year bond yield was up almost 2 bps at 0.58 percent in early trade, above a one - week low of 0.56 percent hit on Friday.

However, in the spring of 2013, high - yielding stocks, which were basically trading as bond alternatives, got crushed.

Lewis, fund's chief investment officer, spent nine years at Citigroup as a director of the bank's global special situations group, a $ 5 billion prop - trading group that specialized in distressed debt, high - yield bonds, and value equity.

The board has been dealing with the volatility of publicly traded stocks and low returns from government bonds by diversifying into other forms of assets, including equity in private companies and investments in infrastructure such as highways and real estate.

Mad Money host Jim Cramer goes off the charts with the help of Carly Garner of DeCarley Trading, who expects the long rally in bond prices to soon end.

«He walked me through the challenges he inherited at Salomon Brothers and how he handled them,» says Sloan, referring to the time when Buffett stepped in to rescue the Wall Street firm during a bond - trading scandal in the 1990s.

The company's senior unsecured bonds due in 2018 last traded Thursday at 5.25 cents on the dollar, down from 72 cents the week before the bankruptcy filing, according to Trace bond - price data.

According to Morningstar Direct, $ 59 billion is invested in long - term bond funds and exchange - traded funds (defined as portfolios with average durations above six years).

The low liquidity levels are caused by a combination of regulations, which make it less attractive for big banks to hold inventories of bonds for dealing, and new forms of quick, computerised trading, which have the potential to move markets in times of stress.

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.

If Brexit - like sentiment in other nations leads to restrictions on the flow of trade and labor, he adds, «that is going to create greater uncertainty and volatility» — at a time when some commentators believe that global stock and bond prices are overdue for a tumble.

Other Wall Street firms have resized their bond trading in the past year, as business has been slower than expected.

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In Japan, the central bank's efforts to boost the economy through extraordinary monetary stimulus are having an unintended consequence: Few want to trade the government's bonds.

After plunging to a record low of 15.95 to the U.S. dollar on September 25, the Argentine peso clawed its way back to 8.5525 on Monday as a crackdown on trading, a bond sale and a currency swap with China curbed transactions in both the legal and underground currency markets.

It used the FSR to report that traders and investors in Canada say that it is taking longer to complete trades in fixed - income markets and that larger trades that used to go through easily now must be broken up into smaller bites, especially when moving corporate bonds.

The secondary market is composed of bonds that were issued in the past and may be traded until redeemed by the issuer.

Finding a significant increase in the number of mini flash crashes in the early minutes of trading on October 15, 2014 would help explain the origins of the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash and reduce the causal uncertainty surrounding the flash crash.

It's more expensive to trade bonds, in terms of bid - ask spreads or volatility or the time to get a trade done.

A carry trade is typically based on borrowing in a low - interest rate currency and converting the borrowed amount into another currency, with proceeds placed on deposit in the second currency if it offers a higher rate of interest or deploying proceeds into assets — such as stocks, commodities, bonds, or real estate — that are denominated in the second currency.

The ECB argued that cross-border interbank trading in the 19 - member currency bloc remains relatively low, cross-border equity or bond holdings are not increasing, and retail banking integration is limited.

The worry is that there is one dominant model of bond investing, in which giant mutual funds and exchange - traded funds buy and hold every newly issued bond that comes along.

Instead of perennially playing Avis to Goldman Sachs» Hertz in the lucrative but dangerous business of bond trading, Mr. Gorman has focused on safer ways of making money.

To make his case, Stewart examines four high - profile cases from the past decade — Martha Stewart and the insider trading of ImClone stock; Lewis (Scooter) Libby's role in outing CIA operative Valerie Plame; Barry Bonds's association with Balco; and the collapse of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

Like most US bond funds, SHYL does nt consider issuer domicileit simply screens for bonds that are issued and traded in US dollars.

The federal government failed to make its case that something about trading stocks and bonds and derivatives has changed so fundamentally in recent times that Ottawa must now step in.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods and Factory Orders for near term direction.

Only with bonds it's even harder to create a diversified portfolio using individual bonds on your own unless you (a) have a large amount of capital (typically bonds are sold in lots of $ 10,000 or $ 100,000) and (b) know how to trade bonds on the open market (transaction costs can be larger for bonds than stocks because of the spreads and lack of liquidity).

With the service, you don't own individual stocks or bonds; instead, investments are held in the form of exchange - traded funds (ETFs).

These assets can be shares of stock in other corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, private equity funds, hedge funds, publicly traded stocks, bonds, real estate, song rights, brand names, patents, trademarks, copyrights, or virtually anything else that has value.

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

Trading across U.S. government bond maturities was range - bound on Wednesday, with yields little changed in spite of gains in the equity market in the last few sessions.

In time we think investors will come to realize that, on fundamentals, French government bonds should be trading much further out.

Barclays» Wall Street rivals saw bond trading revenues rise by an average of 21 percent in the first quarter, with investors adjusting their portfolios in response to rising interest rates, and elections in Europe.

Remington also has $ 250 million of bonds that come due in 2020, and are trading at a significant discount to their face value at 22 cents on the dollar, according to Thomson Reuters data, indicating investor concerns about repayment.