Unlike a targeted investment in a single stock or bond, buying a currency is basically a bet on what a country's economy is going to do.
The holder of a bond rated single-B gets scarcely 3.5 percentage points of premium to compensate for what are sure to be nasty losses of principal whenever a recession hits.
To Dr Baselt this suggested that tiny magnetic particles might be attached to molecules using either antibodies (which will bond to proteins, sugars and so on) or single-stranded DNA (which will bond to a complementary DNA strand to form the famous double helix).
Most of these bonds are denominated in dollars, as despite the introduction of the single currency the US corporate bond market is far bigger than the market in Europe.
As Peter Kenen of Princeton University points out, a single currency does not mean that Europe's bond markets will become completely unified.
Yet inflows into checking and savings accounts outstripped inflows into stock and bond mutual funds and ETFs in every single month of 2011, including in tax season.
Pacific Investment Management 's Co-Chief Executive Mohamed El-Erian will single-handedly run the world's largest bond fund management company when Bill Thompson--half of the company's executive team--retires at the end of the year, Pimco said Friday.
In exchange for an upfront fee, a bond insurer would take a bond with a midling investment grade rating -- single-A, for example -- and offer to pay investors what they were due if the issuer defaulted.
Not a single loss at the polls -- a record that speaks to the bond that he had with you, the people of his state.
In the process, what Sprint really accomplished was to force both stocks to low single digit prices, even as both needed to raise money in the stock and bond markets.
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In diamonds, the six-electron atoms share a single electron with each of the four atoms that abut them, forging the strongest bond known to chemists and making diamonds among the hardest minerals.
Singer, a student of financial history, reminds us of the 1970s experience when inflation was in the high single digits but repressing it required 20% interest rates and a meltdown of the bond market.
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