Sentences with phrase «like bond trader»

«It's like a bond trader from 15 years ago went to sleep and suddenly awoke to make these trades,» one regulator who later reviewed the transactions remarked to a colleague.

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It goes like this: What's the difference between a bond and a bond trader?

When I hear debates on buying and selling bonds like traders discussing equities I just don't get it.

Every big Wall Street firm has an extensive compliance program, with elaborate protocols and training programs designed to make sure investment bankers, stockbrokers and bond traders understand the rules around no - nos like unauthorized trading, money laundering and terrorist financing.

It takes place in the rarefied world of the bond market where institutional traders like banks and pension plans operate.

I like to say it was like being the long bond trader back in the 1980s — possibly the toughest trading job on the Street.

At Holyoke there were bond analysts and lawyers and day traders and city managers and school administrators, all of them caught with their hands in the till and nothing at all like me, an eighteen - year - old accidental arsonist and...

Essentially, hedge fund managers and other active traders can buy individual bonds that they like and then hedge their overall bond market exposure by short sell ¬ ing an index - based ETF.

Does it make the stickiness more like a life insurer holding onto a rare «museum piece» bond that they could never replace, or like a day trader trying to clip nickels?

To keep the market liquid, CCX encourages financial traders to buy and sell CFIs, too, just as they would securities like bonds and mutual funds.

After all, traders are feeling less hungry for risk, putting their funds in safe - haven assets like the dollar and bonds instead.

The bond traders that influence long - term rates (like those used for mortgages) are trying to make educated guesses about where the economy will be in 10 - 15 years.