House economists noted the sticky rate of long duration unemployment and the high share of part-timers.
In an environment when yields have been falling, that relatively long duration has paid off as bond prices jumped.
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Still, we are concerned for people with excessively large bond allocations especially ones including long duration Treasuries or leveraged mutual funds.
Expect the Federal Reserve Board to reinstitute its program of bond repurchasing, thereby driving down interest rates on long duration Treasuries.
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But the Tranquility Module also is going to serve as a gym, as a hygiene area, as a place a crew can maintain themselves for a long duration.
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And a long duration living and working in space is what the Space Station is all about -- to do the research and the science necessary to take us beyond Earth orbit.
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Long duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns.
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Although several studies have looked at exercise for diabetes, the current investigation is unique for its long duration, as well as the fact that it included an ethnically diverse group of patients, says Ronald J.
Difference in leverage, borrowings (short duration vs. long duration), asset holdings (adjustable mortgages vs. long-term mortgages), and hedging strategies are the main differences among the Agency Mortgage REITs, who number less than a dozen names.
Usachev could have an easier time recovering, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
Atop this vehicle would sit a capsule, called Orion, equipped with the life support technologies able to sustain humans on long-duration missions.
Only fellow cosmonauts have stayed in space longer, including the long-duration champion, Sergey Avdeyev, who on three missions spent 747 days off the planet.
Ditching the 1951 Fed-Treasury accord ending government control of bond yields, the Fed selected and purchased trillions of dollars in long-duration bonds and mortgages.
Usachev has experience dealing with the consequences of a long-term stay in space, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.
This has come against a background of louder calls from pension funds for long-duration bonds, which have cashflows that can offset future payments to pensioners.
Steinmetz suggests buying and holding long-duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns, and rolling them out, staying out in the same part of the yield curve.
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The long-duration index has also recovered quickly from adversity, helped in no small measure by the bullish tint to the bond market over the past decade.
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And that's a great question because one of the hard things about long-duration space flight is the human body dealing with weightlessness and a lack of gravity.
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Once the exorbitant fees are taken into account, returns look much less impressive than the industry's promoters claim, and than an illiquid, leveraged and long-duration investment would warrant.
This flight will shortly be followed by another test run to ensure that everything checks out, after which it will begin its first long-duration mission sometime later this month.
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We're also doing metallic research and materials research to help us understand how to make materials on Earth better, but also to find out what materials are better for long-duration missions and traveling beyond Earth's orbit.
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That they were essentially long on duration and it was interest rates that drove that portfolio, not other decisions that could be made in a portfolio, or other investments that could be made in a portfolio.
But as a partner on the ISS programme, and following an agreement to extend space station operations until 2020, Europe has the right to claim a long-duration ISS residency of six months roughly every two years.
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And one of the really nice things that we have and the long-duration crews have is the opportunity to use a telephone or to perform a videoconference similar to like we're doing with you guys with our families.
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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".
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Rather, the 2010 QDR proposed to determine force sizing and composition by using the requirements of a diverse and complex set of scenarios, including long-duration stability operations and the defense of the homeland on par with a major regional conflict (MRC).
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