Joanna Heath
They are dominating the market by telling us what to buy.If you go into a toy shop or children's clothes shop, you'll find the whole section for girls is almost all pink. Because of the domination of big companies,the original arts and crafts are beginning to dieout.Itwould be a rea...
Stay diversified, keeping a core holding in bondsOne investor habit I have written about before is home bias. As investors, we tend to buy what is close to home and familiar. However, as reams of studies since the 1960s have pointed out, buying what is comfortable is not always the ...
the beta coefficient between the price of gold and 10-year US inflation-protected treasury bonds (TIPS, real interest rates) is negative; however, when
That’s a good segue into my actual topic of discussion here – Quantitative Tightening and demand for bonds. It seems like every time the Fed starts talking about unwinding QE people start saying that this is the beginning of the end for the US bond market. If you remember way back in ...
The window for private individuals to invest in the bonds will close on Tuesday 3 December. The Belgian State will then issue the bonds on 4 December.People buying bonds lend their money to the Belgian Government for an agreed number of years. In exchange, the State pays lenders an agreed ...
Most importantly, it’s likely that QE has not had a substantive impact on the US economy to begin with. That is, interest rates likely would have fallen with or without QE because the US economy has remained weak leading to low inflation. So the demand for US T-bonds was never in dou...
we write what people tell us. Almost always, those are the same thing. Sometimes, as the reporter at the American learned, they are not. This mystery isn't about the lives of Guerdwich Montimere and Jerry Joseph; it is about how other people perceive those lives. It's the tree falli...
Like bonds, preferred stock is offered for sale with a set “face value,” often referred to as par value. This value is how much the issuer will pay back to the owner of the security when it is called or at maturity. Unlike bonds, preferred stock may not have a maturity date, and...
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