Further, only short duration bonds, presumably with maturities of two years or less, were bought.
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My bond recommendations in 2012 ranged from high-yield to pipelines, refineries, autos and bond funds, all short duration.
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"Short duration, highlighted by speed of execution, violence of action, well-coordinated plan and a planned withdrawal, " Karsner says.
But the short duration of the study means it may not be able to answer some important safety questions.
Currently, the Pentagon does some limited training of short duration, defense sources say.
"Once the passenger was restrained he sat calmly in the seat for the short duration of the flight, " Egan said.
Some questions came up yesterday about the short duration of their stay.
At an unrelated news conference before the announcement, Bloomberg said the short duration of the evaluations was one of the problems hampering negotiations.
High-yield short duration bonds and senior bank loans (also known as leveraged loans) are both attractive for excess liquidity in the current low-yield environment.
First they were of short duration and many could be called at any time by the bank, making it difficult for a company to plan for the long term.
Their killing and the exchange of gunfire that led to the shooter's death occurred in "a relatively short duration of time, " added Petucci, and physically all within a 1.5-mile radius.
Leaked on Wednesday, markets players expected the OMT, which consists of bond purchases by the ECB in the secondary market of short duration, coupled with strict conditionality (preferably under IMF surveillance).
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.
It is believed that retrofitting existing plants for PRB coal, which are originally designed to consume Appalachian coal is not cost intensive and those expenses can be easily recouped in short duration by the increased profits from operations with PRB coal.
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The linearity of the core story becomes clear during a second playthrough, but here the relatively short duration of each episode is a strength: it is possible to take different sides and pick different fights to elicit different responses over the episode without finding the situational repetition tedious over these short stretches.
Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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Lowering the federal funds rate, its traditional weapon, tends to make the most impact on short-duration debt.
But being short in duration, they are very accessible by most working professionals.
So how about a very short-duration policy with a low daily benefit?
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Segmenting the data industry by industry, workers reported anywhere from 24.1% (other services, except public administration) to 41.6% (mining) incidence of short sleep duration.
We have written previously to express our strong opposition to prohibitions on the responsible use by American military personnel of short-duration anti-personnel landmines (APLs) and the retention of existing long-duration APLs in defense of South Korea.
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The average baby boomer was likely to have held 11 jobs over the course of his or her career, including "large numbers of short-duration jobs even at middle age, " said the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2010.
Panetta said that U.S. officials learned in the months after the incident that "there were actually two short-duration attacks that occurred some six hours apart, " the first on the consulate and the second on an annex two miles away.
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In light of these developments, we respectfully suggest that the treaty that will result from the "Ottawa process" will be incompatible with the U.S. military's abiding requirement to use short-duration anti-personnel landmines where appropriate and to deploy long-duration APLs in Korea.
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Short-duration Agency MREITS which specialize in shorter mortgages (like adjustable mortgages instead of 15-year and 30-year fixed) have outperformed much less about 250 basis points with Anworth Mortgage ( ANH), Hatteras Financial ( HTS), and Capstead Mortgage ( CMO) comprising the short-mortgage play.
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The burst of radiation must be relatively short, because its duration was, too.
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Another popular strategy in a rising rate environment is to keep the duration of your fixed income investments short.
When you provide this much discretion to a single manager, when you talk about that wide range, that wide band on duration, the ability to go long and short across the different macro factors, you can introduce some risk into the portfolio, not withstanding your risk target of a bond like volatility.
For example, we could increase the duration of our investment portfolio, we could go out and buy a lot of securities that have good short-term yield but have higher credit risk.
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