That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond investors tend to figure it out before the rest of the retail market and dump their bonds.
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Related The bond market wants to be very certain that these bonds will be repaid, which means even a trial v... HANK GREELY I think we'll see a natural transition from cash and quality investments like Treasury bonds to risk... BARRY EVANS The bond market is at a ridiculous valuation, whereas the stock valuation is low relative to bonds. MICHAEL DARDA Investors need to be focused on buying bonds for the diversification benefits to stocks. If you are ... MARIO DEROSE I don't think there are any investors who can say with confidence that 20-year bonds are a great buy... YOSHIHIRO GAKE The market is struggling with the fact that its biggest prop, the bond market, is not cooperating. B... WILLIAM MATTISON Both tend to do well when inflation is up and bonds are underperforming. TOM O'CONNOR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There's really nothing major out there to worry about. There's a lot of supply, a lot of corporate b... MARIO DEROSE We have reallocated out of bonds. We got a little bit nervous back in December. However, now that bo... ALAN KRAL Investors are unwilling to buy bonds today. Everyone is cautious about good U.S. job data, staying a... YASUNORI KURODA When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. ... DAVID GOLDMAN A lot of times the bonds trade closer to investment grade before the actual ratings get there. The m... EVAN MANN There will be little room for bonds to rise ahead of the auction. Some investors may not be in a rus... EIJI DOHKE For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutua... ALEX BERENSON The chances of 10-year yields soaring above 1.6 percent are high. Ten- year bonds look expensive com... MAKOTO YAMASHITA People will view a worse-than-expected machinery orders figure as a bond positive. That may help bon... KATSUTOSHI INADOME Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into... ANGUS CAMPBELL Investors may become cautious about buying bonds given the plunge in U.S. Treasuries and European bo... AKIHIKO INOUE It's very quiet. In general institutional investors are not willing to move before the Fed makes its... KOJI MUNEOKA First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou... CARLOS SLIM Investors are buying bonds as they realize a policy shift is not so easy when the government opposes... JUN FUKASHIRO We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday]. ANDREW WALLACE The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is diffi... NEIL GAIMAN Investors may stay cautious about buying bonds before the consumer price report and the central bank... HIROAKI TAKAI There are still investors who need to buy to match the increase in the index. That will help longer ... AKITO FUKUNAGA The share of purchases from foreign investors, including central banks, may decrease as a narrow spr... TADASHI TSUKAGUCHI This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of th... ALBERTO RAMOS Investors are thinking the BOJ may change its monetary policy sooner than expected and that's why bo... JUN FUKASHIRO Bonds and Vladdy (Guerrero)? The rest of us would have to remember to hit, because we might get caug... ADAM KENNEDY But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of... KEVIN KELLY The bond market expects the stock market to fall very hard ... people are trading scared. ANTHONY CRESCENZI 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems. JAMES C. DOBSON Bonds are likely to rebound following the auction. It looks like there will be plenty of demand from... KAZUHIKO SANO If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when intere... KENNETH FISHER The sell-off in the bond markets, not only here, but in global bonds, is scaring a lot of investors.... MICHAEL STRAUSS It makes bonds a little more attractive. LEON MYBURGH We know it's easy to get swept away in a growth market. But I've been in this business more than 25 ... MICHAEL PRICE We know it's easy to get swept away in a growth market, ... But I've been in this business more than... MICHAEL PRICE Bonds are looking at equities. The equity market has stabilized after yesterday's tumble and the auc... MICHAEL CLOHERTY Bonds are unlikely to rise as people in the market are aiming for the 1.6 percent coupon. AKIHIKO INOUE The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds--they mature slowly. PETER DE VRIES The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly. PETER DE VRIES Stock losses are giving bonds some juice this morning; we're back to feeling that the economy is wea... CHRIS RUPKEY Most of the bondholders probably bought these bonds cheaper than 80 cents on the dollar and they may... RON BRINGEWATT Bonds recovered on technical buying, foreign bond traders were oversold and had to recover their pos... MARIO ZAWADZKI The creation of large liquid benchmarks will improve the trading turnover in the secondary market as... AMANDO TETANGCO Investors tend to move ahead of what the Fed actually does. And so like in the bond market in 1994, ... BERNADETTE MURPHY The decline in stocks yesterday was not the start of a trend. At this level investors should sell bo... MAKOTO YAMASHITA The trend for firm longer bonds and weak shorter debt will continue this month. Investors feel safer... YOSHIHIRO GAKE The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct eff... FELIX LANTERS If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Bonds are not doing anything. The earnings coming out are okay. JOSEF SCHACHTER The commodity was down earlier today because we are seeing a bit of profit-taking on stocks. The mar... BARROS CONTI The commodity was down earlier today because we are seeing a bit of profit-taking on stocks. The mar... AMAURY DE BARROS CONTI An increase in purchases by overseas investors is a reason for bonds to rise. It will assure investo... KOJI MORI Gains of stocks give investors another reason to sell bonds. MASAHIRO KAMI The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. CORMAC MCCARTHY One of the best things that the chaplains are doing right now is when married soldiers return home t... MACK GRIFFITH It was anticipated there would be times when the cash won't be there and we'll have to issue bonds. ... JACK NICHOLSON When you look at how technology companies are funded, it's not a zero-sum game. It could be 20 i... TROY CARTER We've never taken out one of these bonds before. DOUG BINGHAM Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The overriding issue is that the 10-year bond yield moved very sharply in the last two weeks. It is ... EDWARD BONSOR I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to inst... HENRY KRAVIS People will probably find it hard to buy bonds ahead of the consumer-prices report. A strong trend o... KATSUTOSHI INADOME Obviously the data today was very supportive of bonds. The unemployment report caught everyone by su... BILL HORNBARGER Obviously the data today was very supportive of bonds. The unemployment report caught everyone by su... BILL HORNBARGER Investors used to look at ratings for a barometer as to whether to sell or buy bonds. JOYCE CHANG There is a lot of uncertainty out there and bonds aren't a bad place to be. We're going to see conti... MARIO DEROSE Investors can't really take risks and buy bonds because yields are on a gradual rising trend. The ce... AKITO FUKUNAGA It reduces the rate of return on that $6.5 trillion hiding in money-market accounts. As that rate of... WAYNE ANGELL Corporate bonds are filling the void, to some degree. But this does not pave the way to a rally in b... WILLIAM SULLIVAN Without loyalty, there are no other bonds of friendship. TROY J. GAINEY There was some buying back in the early morning, but the market remains top-heavy, as market players... AKITSUGU BANDO Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfoli... ROBERT KIYOSAKI The bond market has been pricing in a premium against potential inflation. They've been looking at t... ROB PALOMBI Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But ... LARS FELD Trading is cautious as investors are waiting for the market to choose a direction after the recent v... LIANG JING Conventional wisdom holds that investors should hold bonds in tax-protected vehicles like IRAs and s... CHRISTOPHER DAVIS We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference... CHRIS MATAKAS If retail sales remain healthy, it will give further support to the economic growth in the first qua... ANDREW PYLE There are friendships that are greater than family bonds, but they are very rare BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think investors are somewhat confused, we're getting all kinds of conflicting signals from bonds a... DOUG PORTER Bond yields are set to go higher. With the U.S. economy expanding and reports suggesting Japan's gro... JUN FUKASHIRO These bonds trade by appointment. There is no real market for them. I have seen probably less than 5... JAMES CROFT There are some offerings, the crappy offerings, where the only people stupid enough to buy it are th... CHARLES KAPLAN Yields aren't high enough to entice investors. I see little reason to buy bonds as stocks are lookin... YUUKI SAKURAI The stock market looks like it's going to rebound slightly. And I think that's part of it (the bonds... SCOTT GRAHAM There's going to be a tremendous amount of rebuilding. There are going to be a lot of bonds out of t... JAMES CONN Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE In the environment that we are in right now, where the market is growing rapidly, the most common ar... MICHAEL JONES There's been a flow of funds from U.S. bonds to gold, and that is providing support for the market. KOJI SUZUKI There is no point in being a bond vigilante if you cannot influence governments and central banks by... JEFF BERWICK There has been a lack of liquidity, and this certainly makes more shares available to institutional ... MARIANNE WOLK What's happening today is very telling of where the market is right now. Typically, when there is ne... PETER GREEN Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields ar... AKIHIKO YOKOYAMA Bonds will probably stay strong. Further gains in the yen are a risk factor that can push down bond ... EIJI DOHKE Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON Corporate bonds are being driven by a desire to lock something in before rates go higher. FRANK FERNANDEZ
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There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversi... LINCOLN ANDERSON I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers. LINCOLN ANDERSON For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could nev... LINCOLN ANDERSON I look at that as really good news for the market; you want something right in the sweet spot. We're... LINCOLN ANDERSON I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landsca... LINCOLN ANDERSON In the meantime, the data on the US economy (especially employment and industrial production) will l... LINCOLN ANDERSON People are still very concerned about Katrina itself and also about the gasoline and other refined p... LINCOLN ANDERSON It reminds me of PIO, or pilot induced oscillation, a lag in the plane's response to a pilot moving ... LINCOLN ANDERSON The biggest thing that would help the markets right now would be a sustained drop in crude oil, but ... LINCOLN ANDERSON He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. -Lincoln. LINCOLN Blessed are those to whom Easter is not a hunt...but a find;
not a greeting...but a proclamation;
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the... ANDREW LINCOLN If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I h... ABRAHAM LINCOLN As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ABRAHAM LINCOLN How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I di... ABRAHAM LINCOLN America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be bec... 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I'm going to have to get to know him better. ABRAHAM LINCOLN A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your... ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged. ABRAHAM LINCOLN If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my ax. ABRAHAM LINCOLN For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words y... LINCOLN CHILD I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ABRAHAM LINCOLN The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor. They managed to e... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? ABRAHAM LINCOLN Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence. ABRAHAM LINCOLN My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar ABRAHAM LINCOLN Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree i... ABRAHAM LINCOLN The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Everybody likes a compliment. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own exis... ABRAHAM LINCOLN You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire a... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him... ABRAHAM LINCOLN When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. ABRAHAM LINCOLN My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is w... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelit... ABRAHAM LINCOLN Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me ABRAHAM LINCOLN I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safe... ABRAHAM LINCOLN All I have learned, I learned from books. ABRAHAM LINCOLN No man is poor who has a Godly mother. ABRAHAM LINCOLN