All the bond paper I hold, encompassing financials, energy plays, industrials and natural resources shows rising EBITDA coverage.
It bothers me that I coulda bought 10-year Treasuries instead of working like a dog doping out junk bond paper.
Even large companies, which can access the commercial paper and bond markets, are affected.
Over time, millions of Western citizens could be wittingly or unwittingly holding Soviet paper in their bond portfolios and pension funds.
Cost of carry on my bond portfolio of high yield paper is also minimal, but shows a net positive variance of over 500 basis points.
But neither party is willing to tell the IRS to cut the nonsense and stop pretending that there is a difference between owning a term loan, a revolving working capital loan, commercial paper or a bond.
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Imagine a lowly rated energy bond and top-notch bank paper in the same structure.
There is unmet demand for long-dated paper, says the Bond Market Association, an industry body.
What no smart money seems to want to feed on is pricey paper, of the bond variety.
The government reopened old bond issues, selling oddly dated paper with maturities between the more common five- and 10-year notes.
Second, Chilean firms and banks can tap international capital markets only if two bond-rating agencies rate their paper as high as Chile's own government bonds.
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Zhang told the paper he was given the bond in 1998 by his father.
Over the next month the bond market convulsed and investors fled risky paper of the sort most mortgage REITs hold.
Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
Mr. REED: The person left holding the buck is going to be the investor at the other end of the table, the person who's - or the company, typically, a hedge fund or something like that who has bought that mortgage paper, that security or that bond from the company that lent you the money originally.
And the Fed is holding the piece of paper labeled U.S. Treasury bond.
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If you hold your bond until it matures, the impact is all on paper.
If low bond yields unhinge and people start selling, much more paper has to exit via a smaller door.
Spain is under mounting pressure with bond yields well over 7% on 10-year paper and if it needs a bailout, Italy may not be far behind.
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Even so, Anadarko bond investors, fearing rating agency downgrades, have sold the paper in recent days.
These vehicles have also increased their bond sales, issuing over 420 billion yuan-worth of paper already this year.
Bond investors were unenthused by the prospect of all this extra paper flooding the market, and the price of Russian bonds fell sharply.
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Investors shunned BZH today sending its shares 1.6% lower while bond sellers walked away from its Caa2-rated seven-year paper.
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While most Italian households typically hold government paper to maturity, they could suffer hefty losses if bond prices continue to fall, as they have in recent months.
The US government then attempted to pay this last bond at a fraction of the face value and not in gold but paper.
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As for the bond market, the biggest surprise and disappointment is my portfolio of high yield paper stands upstaged by 10-year Treasuries and AA municipals which require no serious due diligence.
The company, which makes screens for Apple's iPad and iPhone, needs to shore up cash to roll over as much as 360bn yen of short-term commercial paper and will need another 200bn yen to cover a maturing convertible bond in September 2013.
Spain returns to the bond debt market this Thursday, offering 15, 18, and 41-year paper.
For example, India's stunted corporate-bond market might grow if banks and insurance firms were free to buy more corporate debt and less government paper.
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