Not exact matches
The European Central Bank on December 3 dropped one
of its main policy rates to negative 0.3 % from negative 0.2 % and said it would extend its
bond - buying program, under which it creates euros to
purchase debt, to
at least March 2017.
Expectations are high the Bank
of Japan may boost its government
bond purchases at its April 3 - 4 policy review, the first under new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who has vowed to do whatever it takes to hit the BOJ's new 2 percent inflation target.
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At that time, even a 1 % annual rate
of inflation between 2012 and 2017 would have decreased the
purchasing - power
of the government
bond» he sold.
But with the unemployment rate,
at 6.2 percent, well below its recession - era peak
of 10 percent, and inflation showing no signs
of falling further, the Fed has begun to trim its monthly
bond purchases, aiming to end them completely by October.
Last December, the bank announced it would extend its
bond - buying program albeit
at a reduced pace
of purchases.
Type 3: The value -
at - risk (VAR) shock in Japan in 2003 occurred when fears spread that the Bank
of Japan, which was already doing QE before it was called QE, would taper its
purchases of Japanese Government
Bonds.
John Canally, investment strategist
at LPL Financial, suggested that financial markets had overreacted in anticipation
of reduced
bond purchases.
«We do nt foresee the ECB making any changes
at all until September, when the QE program officially ends,» said Alfonso Esparza, senior currency strategist
at Oanda Corporation in Toronto, Canada, referring to the bank's
purchases of bonds.
All in all, we believe eurozone
bond yields may move a little higher, but any increase is likely to be capped by the ECB's ongoing level
of purchases,
at least until policymakers start to signal their next steps on monetary policy later in the year.
If you
purchase an individual
bond with a five year maturity you will receive interest payments for the term
of the
bond along with total principal repayment
at maturity.
Lastly, unlike
bond mutual funds which can only be
purchased or redeemed
at end
of day, individual
bonds can be bought and sold throughout the day providing the investor with more immediate liquidity.
a
bond where no periodic interest payments are made; the investor
purchases the
bond at a discounted price and receives one payment
at maturity that usually includes interest; they have higher price volatility than coupon
bonds as a result
of interest rate changes
The
purchase, to be mostly paid for in shares and convertible
bonds, follows Ensco Plc's (ESV.N) acquisition
of smaller drilling rival Atwood Oceanics Inc ATW.N in an all - stock deal valued
at about $ 839 million in May.
But potential tax implications get trickier with
bonds purchased in the secondary market
at a premium or discount — in other words, investors that paid more or less than the face value
of the
bond.
Each week a limited number
of new issue corporate
bonds are available for
purchase at par, in minimum denominations
of $ 1,000, without additional trading concessions.
«Foreign
purchases of provincial
bonds were the largest in a year
at $ 3.5 - billion, mainly new issues denominated in U.S. dollars.»
At the time
of purchase for the fund's portfolio, the ratings on the
bonds must be one
of the four highest ratings by Moody's Investors Services (Aaa, Aa, A, Baa) or Standard & Poor's Corporation (AAA, AA, A, BBB).
Each account will contain investment - grade taxable
bonds rated BBB − or higher
at time
of purchase.2 The investment team will seek to maintain an overall portfolio credit rating average
of A −.2 Please be aware that lower rated
bonds do carry additional risk compared to higher rated
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.
a municipal
bond that is secured by an escrow fund; the escrow fund comes from the issuer floating a second
bond issue and using the proceeds from that second
bond issue to
purchase government obligations, typically U.S. Treasuries, proceeds from the second
bond issue create an escrow fund to mature
at the first call date
of the first
bond issue to pre-refund that issue;
bond issuers will typically do this during times
of lower interest rates to lower their interest costs
the difference between the stated redemption price
at maturity (if greater than one year) and the issue price
of a fixed income security attributable to the selected tax year; NOTE: Tax reporting
of OID obligations is complex; if acquisition or
bond premium is paid during the
purchase, or if the obligation is a stripped
bond or stripped coupon, the investor must compute the proper amount
of OID; refer to IRS Publication 1212, List
of Original Issue Discount Instruments, to calculate the correct OID
The ECB has said it intends to continue
bond purchases until
at least September, to keep interest rates
at current levels until «well past» the end
of the program.
«When I
purchased long - term zero - coupon
bonds in the early 1980's
at market yields in excess
of 13 %, I welcomed the prospect
of outsized volatility because I felt it would eventually work in my favour.»
As it had announced
at the end
of 2016, the ECB cut the size
of its monthly
bond purchases from $ 80 billion to $ 60 billion in April, but President Draghi also moved to quell speculation about an increase in the ECB's deposit rate later this year, which some critics had called for, even before any curtailment
of the ECB's quantitative easing program.
Wall Street would like to see another round
of quantitative easing, where the central bank
purchases bonds, but that may be too aggressive a step
at this time.
Draghi offered no indication
of any looming change in the bank's statement that it would continue
purchasing 30 billion euros ($ 37 billion) per month in
bonds at least through September, and longer if necessary.
-LRB-...) Mr. Draghi indicated on Monday that the ECB would be open to buying
bonds with a maturity
of two to three years, stressing that such
purchases wouldn't break European Union treaties, according to several lawmakers present
at the hearing.
With the UK economy gradually picking up pace and inflation rising on the back
of a weaker currency, the UK's central bank may finally go ahead with a rate hike for the first time in a decade, although it is widely expected to leave the monthly government and corporate -
bond purchases untouched
at # 435 and # 10 billion respectively.
The 10 - year is not trading
at closer to 3 percent because
of the «continue large
purchase of Treasury
bonds by the Fed.»
If the whole thing — the rises in stock prices, in corporate earnings, in the housing market, even in job growth — is driven solely by the flood
of money, or whether five years
of zero - interest rates and trillions
of dollars in
bond purchases have succeeded
at getting a more resilient economic engine for the United States up and running.
Generally, the distribution yield
of a fund reflects the average yield
at which the underlying
bonds were
purchased.
Fixed income securities, such as
bonds and preferred stock, subject investors to the greatest amount
of purchasing power risk since their payments are set
at the time
of issue and remain unchanged regardless
of the inflation rate.
For Greece, all
of this means that the ECB could
at the earliest start
purchasing Greek
bonds only in June or July, if and when Greece has reimbursed the
bond expiring in June which the ECB had (partly)
purchased under the old SMP programme.
As had been widely expected,
at the ECB's meeting in late October, policymakers outlined their plans to reduce the monthly
bond purchases carried out by the central bank as part
of its QE program.
The stimulus comes in the form
of a plan to hold interest rates near zero
at least through mid-2015 and to buy $ 143 billion in mortgage
bonds through the end
of the year, and then continue the
purchases as long as necessary.
And we have the ECB [European Central Bank], again, likely to tell us what their plans are and not for selling
bonds back into the market, I think not
at this stage for changing their interest rate policy, but again, slowing the rates
of purchase of bonds.
Nevertheless, the apparent success
of the ECB's policy in overcoming the threat
of deflation increased speculation about a potential tightening
of monetary policy, possibly even before the cessation
of the central bank's
bond purchases — scheduled to continue for
at least the rest
of the year — and in the wake
of the ECB meeting pushed market estimates
of the odds
of a rise in official interest rates before the end
of 2017 to more than 50 %.
In contrast to IMF loans to support the kleptocrats» banks and new Cold War asset grabs from the Eastern border provinces with Russia, Ukraine's sale
of bonds to Russia's sovereign debt fund and its contracts signed for gas
purchases were negotiated by a democratically elected government,
at prices that subsidized domestic industry and also household consumption.
As an investor's investment horizon lengthens, however, a diversified portfolio
of U.S. equities becomes progressively less risky than
bonds, assuming that the stocks are
purchased at a sensible multiple
of earnings relative to then - prevailing interest rates.
It's no mystery
at all that foreign
purchases of US
bonds have been meaningful support to the broad US fixed income markets for really decades now.
Marilyn Watson, head
of Global Fundamental Fixed Income Strategy
at BlackRock predicts: «Given the currency bloc's improving fundamental backdrop and recent impressive data releases, particularly in Germany, not to mention the shortage
of supply
of bonds to buy, we believe that the ECB will fully taper its asset
purchase programme by the end
of 2018.»
At the same time, ruling out any increase in interest rates while
bond purchases are scaled back, in our view, signals ECB President Mario Draghi's determination to resist any political pressure to speed up the process
of normalizing monetary policy.
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.
Alibaba will
purchase a 9.9 % stake
of Goodaymart
at $ 69.8 million (HK$ 541) million in subscription shares, and subscribe to convertible
bonds of Haier Electronics for $ 169.8 million (HK$ 1.316 billion).
What I find unusual is that only 20 %
of the $ 1 trillion in
bond purchases, or $ 60 billion a month through
at least September 2016, will be risk - shared across all
of the eurozone.
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The town board's interest in acquiring land for open space and other community purposes has been in high gear this month, as it also voted to issue a $ 2 million
bond to buy 12 acres
at 359 Pantigo Road and scheduled or held hearings on the
purchase of properties on Old Stone Highway in Springs and on West Lake Drive in Montauk.
Since 2015, Franklin Templeton having Trevor Trefgarne as Non-Executive Director
purchased bonds issued by the NDC Government, now Ghanaians want to know from the Minority MPs, if there was any form
of conflict
of interest and conspiracy between Seth Terkper, Ato Forson, Trevor Trefgarne and Ken Ofori - Atta to enriched themselves
at the detriment
of the Nation within that period?
At that time, four out
of five American households
purchased the original Victory
Bonds, raising $ 185 billion (over $ 2 trillion in today's dollars) to support the war effort.
The real rate
of interest could be identified as the actual mathematical rate
at which investors and lenders are increasing their
purchasing power with their
bonds and loans.