If you look at the current market environment, with rates at historical lows, with very little income being produced by a traditional bond portfolio and the strength of a traditional bond portfolio really hampering and really constraining your return opportunity.
This may have been especially costly in fixed-income underwriting, given the strength of bond markets at the time.
Others suspect that the bond market's strength may betray a suspicion that the economy is weaker than it looks.
In stocks, more investment banks were out with improved earnings results, including Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), which posted better earnings off of strength in its bond business and more merger-and-acquisition deals, while Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ) also came in with better profits on fixed income.
Nope, the basic game in the bond pits is to gauge the strength of the economy and stay in tune with the expectations for inflation.
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The "AAA" financial strength rating is crucial to bond insurers because they effectively transfer their ratings to bond issuers.
Ackman has challenged the strength of MBIA and other bond insurers for more than five years and as recently as November forecast they would be insolvent by the second quarter because of their exposure as guarantors to billions of credit derivatives products packed with subprime mortgage debt.
For the four coaches, though, the biggest strength of this season is their bond.
You also have to assess the fiscal strength of the government entity behind the bond.
Stock market strength and a higher 30-Year bond yield have pushed down equity valuations.
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Because of stock market strength and a higher 30-Year bond yield, equity valuations are less undervalued and more overvalued.
The once defunct studio is now considering an IPO solely on the strength of controlling The Hobbit and James Bond.
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Rising currencies are good for bond holders, so long as the currency rises in strength from where it was purchased.
Those minutes reveal that several FOMC committee members think that with the economic recovery showing increasing strength, the Fed will need to halt the bond purchases well before the end of 2013.
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Mr Joshi says the four previous periods of triple strength since 1980 were all followed by falls in Treasury-bond prices.
For the soldiers still fighting the war, they draw strength on the strong bonds created among their units -- a bond strengthened by the horrors they experience in the field and a pure desire to help each other get home alive.
On Friday Ambac saw its crucial financial strength rating cut to "AA" from "AAA" and the bond insurer's plight is likely to have far-flung effects.
Because the life insurance company we used for this analysis has the highest financial strength ratings, our comparison was made with top rated tax-free bond yields.
Once the figures came out that Portugal was able to raise 943 million euro in the 5-year bond auction, 143 million euro more than expected, the continental currency showed some strength.
BlackRock has thrived in recent years for two reasons it has had a particular strength in bonds during a bull market for such instruments, and the bond side of investment management seems to benefit from scale.
Here, traders will have to be patient for strength below the 200-day, similar to the short-term overbought conditions in bond ETFs from a year ago in 2011.
Because the yen's strength may aggravate existing disinflationary forces, the prudent course of action would be to increase Japanese government bond purchases in combination with an expansion of policies to accelerate international buying of the instruments.
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