Sentences with phrase «thirty year treasury»

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Yet someone who buys long - term securities intending to quickly resell rather than hold is a speculator, and thirty - year Treasury bonds have also effectively become trading sardines.

Professional traders and so - called investors alike prize thirty - year Treasury bonds for their liquidity and use them to speculate on short - term interest rate movements, while never contemplating the prospect of actually holding them to maturity.

We can all wonder what would happen if the thirty - year Treasury bond fell from favor as a speculative vehicle, causing these short - term holders to rush to sell at once and turning thirty - year Treasury bonds back into eating sardines.

For still another example of speculation on Wall Street, consider the U.S. government bond market in which traders buy and sell billions of dollars» worth of thirty - year U.S. Treasury bonds every day.

Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one - day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8 % and 17.4 %.

When I was 50 thirty years ago, I ignored «good advice» and started to buy 30 year treasury bonds at rates near 10 %.

An investor purchasing U.S. Treasuries on June 18th, 2015 is signaling a willingness to be compensated at an annual rate of 2.35 % over the next ten years, and 3.14 % over the next thirty.

I merely pointed out that the guys in the Treasury (our Finance Ministry) had noticed this undeniable truth about thirty years ago.

Imagine working and taking constant risks for thirty or forty years or more and when you're finally ready to retire, you have to write a check for twenty - five to thirty percent of your liquid assets to the US Treasury before you can retire.