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History suggests bond investors can be pretty dim about the future
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The risk of owning U.S. government debt is as great as any time since the 1950s with yields at the year’s lows and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner locking in borrowing costs by selling longer-term securities.
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The European Central Bank may back a plan encouraging investors to buy new Greek bonds to replace maturing securities, said two officials familiar with the situation, softening the ECB’s opposition to any restructuring to fix the country’s debt crisis.
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European Central Bank policy makers may back a plan to roll over Greek bonds as part of a solution to the country’s fiscal crisis, said two officials familiar with the situation, softening the ECB’s opposition to any restructuring of the country’s debt.
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The European Union’s top economic official said a solution to keeping Greece solvent is combining bold deficit cuts reminiscent of Belgian sacrifices in the 1990s and willingness by lenders to roll over expiring bonds, adapting what was done in Eastern Europe two years ago.
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U.S. banks are accelerating purchases of government-backed mortgage securities as declining interest rates and weakened loan demand push financial firms to put cash to work in the bond market.
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may begin a 10 percent slump in June after the Federal Reserve ends its bond-buying program, Credit Suisse Group AG’s Douglas Cliggott said.
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The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may begin a 10 percent slump in June after the Federal Reserve ends its bond-buying program, Credit Suisse Group AG’s Douglas Cliggott said.
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