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Treasuries Tumble as Rescue Efforts, Budget Put Focus on Supply
Bloomberg The 30-year bond’s yield was up 11 basis points this month to 3.71 percent. The difference in yield, or spread, between two- and 10-year notes touched 2.05 percentage points yesterday, the steepest the so-called yield curve has been since Nov. 24. … Stay short-term for safety in Treasuries Treasurys mixed as stocks sink Treasuries caught in the crossfire of ‘two realities’ |
Archive for February, 2009
Treasuries Tumble as Rescue Efforts, Budget Put Focus on Supply - Bloomberg
Berkshire Hathaway Reports Worst Year Ever - Wall Street Journal
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Berkshire Hathaway Reports Worst Year Ever
Wall Street Journal It has written $15.6 billion of insurance, about 77% of it on bonds that were already insured, making Mr. Buffett's insurer the second, third or fourth to pay, at rates averaging 3.3%. Before he did those deals, he said, he had offered to take over … Historical Low Default Rates On Munis Don't Mean Jack (MBI) Warren Buffett on the Economy Buffett's happy monoline snub |
Boston Fed Chief Defends Rate Reaction - Forbes
Boston Fed Chief Defends Rate Reaction
Forbes, NY Holders of the Golden State’s debt were only slightly fazed. The iShares S&P California Municipal Bond Fund (nyse: CMF - news - people ) lost 78 cents, or 0.8%, to close at $102.44. On a national level municipal bond prices were flat Friday. ETF banks on a bubble in Treasuries |
Roche Leaves Bond Investors $670 Million Windfall - Bloomberg
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Roche Leaves Bond Investors $670 Million Windfall
Bloomberg 27 (Bloomberg) — Roche Holding AG rewarded investors with a profit of more than $670 million for agreeing to buy $30.8 billion of bonds that will fund its hostile bid for Genentech Inc. Roche’s $16.5 billion of US notes, with interest rates ranging … RLPC-Roche jumbo loan shrinks after bond market success News > Unternehmensnachrichten > Genentech Special Committee … Genentech Special Committee Rejects Roche's $86.50 Offer As Inadequate |
S&P rates new Liberty Mutual catastrophe bond BB - Reuters
S&P rates new Liberty Mutual catastrophe bond BB
Reuters By Catherine Evans LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's has assigned a preliminary BB rating to US insurer Liberty Mutual's planned $200 million catastrophe bond, to be issued via special purpose vehicle Mystic Re II, the credit rating agency … |
Room for pump priming - The Australian
Room for pump priming
The Australian, Australia "But the macro-economic forces of falling interest rates, negative economic growth and falling inflation tend to overwhelm the impactof an increased supply of bonds. In therecessions of the 1980s and '90s in Australia, bond yields actually fell," he … |
India corp bond yields ease, rate cut hopes intensify - Reuters India
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India corp bond yields ease, rate cut hopes intensify
Reuters India, India MUMBAI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Indian corporate bond yields eased on Friday, after official data showed economic growth at a near six-year low in the December, raising expectations of rate cuts in the coming weeks. The yield on the Reuters benchmark … Bond yields off 2-month highs; rate cut eyed India bond yields at fresh 1-wk lows on rate cut view India bond yields at 1-wk low, rate cut hopes rise |
Roche, Chevron Lead Record Non-Financial Bond Sales - Bloomberg
Roche, Chevron Lead Record Non-Financial Bond Sales
Bloomberg Industry estimates for 2009 bond sales are “very pessimistic,” S&P said in a statement today, based on a twice- yearly survey of bond market professionals. The survey was conducted from mid-November through mid-January. Yields over benchmark rates on … |
Treasurys fall as supply builds - CNNMoney.com
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Treasurys fall as supply builds
CNNMoney.com The 30-year bond was down 1-2/32 at 97 10/32, and its yield rose to 3.65%. The yield on the 3-month note stood at 0.27%, down from 0.3% on Wednesday's level. Demand for the shorter term note is seen as a gauge of investor confidence. Lending rates: The … Bond Expert Thursday Wrap: The Risk-Aversion Premium Treasury yields edge up, but demand still solid T-Note Demand Strong, For Now |
Mexico’s Peso Falls to Record Low on Pared Interest-Rate Bets - Bloomberg
Mexico’s Peso Falls to Record Low on Pared Interest-Rate Bets
Bloomberg The yield on the government’s benchmark 10 percent bonds due in 2024 fell 14 basis points, or 0.14 percentage point, to 8.71 percent. The bond’s price rose 1.29 centavo to 111.01 centavos per peso, according to Banco Santander SA. … |
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