The monthly chart of the 30-year T-Bond goes back to 1995, when the yield peaked at 8.07%.
The 30-year-plus bond bull market is reflected by this long-term chart of T-Bond yields by year-they have declined from 15.2% to 2.91%!
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The daily chart of T-bond yields (right panel) shows that they have been in a broad trading range, lines g and i, since last September.
Chart Analysis: The weekly chart of the T-Bond futures shows that the uptrend from the 2011 lows, line a, has been broken over the past three weeks.
When the spread is rising, it is generally a negative for stocks and the precarious state of the 30-year T-bond yields was one of the triple alerts for stocks.
T-Bond and T-Note prices have dropped dramatically this week.
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As of August 19, yields on almost every duration of T-Bond were lower than they were before the downgrade (the three-month issue was the lone exception, its yield rising from 0.01% to 0.02%).
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Some small countries, like Iraq, don't have functioning treasury-bond markets but have sold foreign-currency bonds internationally, giving fund managers another avenue to invest in them.
Some bondholders believe China won't let any borrower in the corporate-bond market default, even borrowers that aren't government-owned, because officials want to ensure the market continues to operate smoothly.
Even worse for investors: Some funds haven't come close to matching high-yield bond indexes.
Tax-free municipal-bond interest isn't subject to the 3.8% tax.
Japan wants to be the first nation in the G-7 to issue a sovereign sukuk bond--that is, if Britain doesn't get there first.
On the other hand, housing didn't produce returns as high as high-grade bond funds or gold.
Vanguard doesn't recommend to financial-planning clients a global bond fund or exchange-traded funds that could mimic a commodities strategy.
Although she hasn't enjoyed the same tight bond or round-the-clock access to Obama that her predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, had with President George W. Bush, Clinton has found a credible partnership and trust with the president, forged at their weekly one-on-one meetings and built on their similar mix of a pragmatic view of 21st century American leadership coupled with a stubborn streak of idealism.
Despite the increasingly crowded market, the competition among banks for bond-sale work isn't likely to soften.
The actual bond-buying program didn't start until last month, however, and skeptics stress it is too early to declare victory.
While heavy debtors might be expected to offer higher yields, as in the corporate-bond world, this isn't always the case with government bonds.
The database is a good place to get basic comparative information, but it won't help you decide which emerging-market stock or bond to invest in.
The deteriorating economic outlook and the state of high anxiety in financial markets could yet pave the way for extensive bond purchases - just don't expect them to come right now, and certainly don't expect them to come under the heading: "lender of last resort for the euro".
Real estate developers, banks, and brokerages were hit by the jump in yields, which followed the Bank of Japan's announcement on Wednesday that it will maintain its own current bond-buying program but won't take additional action to depress yields.
Citigroup municipal-bond analyst George Friedlander said he hadn't given up hope yet that concerted lobbying by states and cities could persuade Congress to renew BABs.
Let's understand for a second that -- I don't know what Senator Graham or Senator Bond said in 2005 when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an analogy that if you compared the recidivism rate of detainees at Guantanamo with the U.S. penal system, the detainee rate is less for -- the recidivism rate is less for Guantanamo detainees.
Don't stop with a split-up of balanced portfolios into stock and bond halves.
Well they haven't gone public (yet), but I recall self-styled Bond girl Janes was driving a smart German marque.
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Isgur didn't show up for his plea hearing, which garnered him a bond-jumping charge.
Bond markets still don't have faith in Wall Street--a problem that rate cuts can't correct.
As a result, the regulators hoped, sovereign-bond prices would come back somewhat and banks wouldn't face pressure to sell.
With ten-year bond yields still well below 6%, Stack doesn't see the sharp rise in rates as having a dampening effect on equities.
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