So when you hear about how successful Spanish and Italian bond auctions have been of late, bear in mind that bond yields are just one gauge --- and by no means the most important -- of whether the eurozone crisis is nearing its end.
Yet usually those bond bear markets saw stocks fare pretty well, particularly when they were preceded by a stock bear market.
Robert Rubin, a bond analyst with Bear, Stearns, thinks regulators will seize on the change in control to gain concessions from TNP.
The Federal Reserve announced Sunday that it would make discount-window borrowing available to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reminiscent of its decision in March to provide direct loans to brokerage houses that are primary Treasury bond dealers as the Bear Stearns crisis came to a head.
Paddington Bear was created by former BBC cameraman Michael Bond, and his first book was published in 1958.
Another email cites a Bear Stearns executive as asking whether a particular bond sale was a "going out of business sale" and expressing a wish to "close this dog".
There's not much that bond managers can do in a long bear market for bonds and still look smart.
Unfortunately for the more conservative investors, who had piled into U.S. treasury bonds as a safe haven, the promise of further Fed easing sent the bond market into what is developing into a bear market.
Bear in mind that in calculating this income you dont count municipal bond interest or unrealized capital gains.
The example of bond mutual funds, which suffered huge redemptions because of a bear market in corporate bonds, suggests not.
Trillions of dollars have entered into the bond market through mutual funds over the past decade, as investors sought safety after the equity bear markets of 2000-2002, and fueled further by the broad stock market collapse in 2008.
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