 Pakistan Attractive as Growth Outweighs Violence, Atlas Says Bloomberg Samad said Atlas may introduce a government bond fund this year targeting investments of three to five years and is considering a dividend-yield equity fund and a sector-specific stock fund next year. “In the short run, law and order problems ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| United States' bond rating might be downgraded by credit-rating agencies Washington Post Interest rates on Treasury bonds would edge up — a good guess is about a quarter of a percentage point at first. If you own a mutual fund or exchange-traded fund that owns Treasuries, that would knock 2 to 3 percent off its value. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Debt-fight fallout Mail Tribune That new cash suggests investors once again see money funds as safe. —Volatility: The stockmarket's fear gauge, formally known as the Chicago Board of Options Exchange's Volatility Index, has risen to levels last seen in August 2010. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Tel Aviv Stock Exchange plunges on US credit downgrade Jewish Telegraphic Agency Analysts reportedly believe that Saturday night's massive protests throughout Israel against the high cost of living also contributed to the plunge, Haaretz reported. Since the Tel Aviv Stock Exchangeoperates Sunday through Thursday, it was one of the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| US debt downgrade: an unpredictable impact ABC Online It is definitely an historic event, and markets will open today to a changed reality, as Mohamed el-Erian of the world's biggest bond fund, Pimco, wrote over the weekend. But I don't think the price of those US bonds will collapse - in fact they are ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Yield Gap and Yen Draws Investors, Kirin to Brazil: Japan Credit San Francisco Chronicle Buying all of closely held Aleadri will give Kirin 50.45 percent of Schincariol Participacoes e Representacoes SA, the Tokyo-based company said in a stock-exchange filing on Aug. 2. The purchase was funded with existing cash and loans. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| As Market Tension Builds, World Leaders Ponder Response New York Times In a sign of the acute tension after Standard & Poor's lowered the rating for long-term United States debt to AA+ from AAA, stock markets in the Middle East fell in Sunday trading, and the Tel Avivexchange delayed opening for the first time since the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Markets: US Rating Cut, Australian Outlook Solid International Business Times The session erased more than $136 billion in market value of companies listed on Japanese stockexchanges, according to Marketwatch. The Hong Kong stock exchange lost more than $US132 billion in investor wealth, with the two main Chinese stock ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Fed Has Some Tricks Left, but None Are Magic Wall Street Journal He cut interest rates to near zero, printed $2.3 trillion to buy Treasury bonds and mortgage debt, and, with a posse of sleepless economists, devised an alphabet soup of rescue programs for commercial-paper markets, money-market funds, dollar-starved ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Arab stocks plunge on downgrading of US credit rating Monsters and Critics.com Abdullah Baeshn, CEO of the Saudi TeamOne Consulting, believed the risk lay in the declining value of the Arab holdings of US treasury bonds due to the retreating exchange rate of the dollar. 'A weak dollar will mean a smaller value for the Arab funds ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Making Room for Midcaps Wall Street Journal He offers two ETF-only portfolios, and one portfolio made up of mutual funds whose managers make bets on stocks and bonds that they hope will beat benchmark indexes. To manage these portfolios, Mr. Cortazzo charges a fixed monthly fee of $199 for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| TASE: Day tycoons will want to forget Ynetnews Most of the shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange slipped Sunday following sharp declines on global markets and the US rating downgrade. Despite the fact that declines are across the board in all of the sectors of the Israeli economy, it is evident ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| S&P Downgrade: Short Term, Meaningless. Long-Term, Spot On. Forbes (blog) Argentina, ever the innovator, did that one better in 2008 by forcing its citizens to give up their private pension funds and buy government bonds instead. - Transaction taxes on stocks: A good way to encourage investors to buy government debt is to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Dubai Shares Drop Most Since February on Global Growth Concern BusinessWeek Oil for September delivery tumbled 9.2 percent last week to $86.88 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council supply about a fifth of the world's oil. The Bloomberg GCC 200 Index of the region's stocks ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Base exposure to a commodity on its volume of productioni Financial Times Exposure to commodities can be obtained through direct physical investment, through commodity futures, exchange traded funds (linked to individual commodities or commodity indices) or through owning the equity (or debt) of commodity producing companies ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Investors brace for nervous Monday Times of India One of the most-watched markets on Monday will be the Shanghai stock exchange, mainly because of the sheer amount of exposure of the Chinese economy to the US and also its holdings of US government bonds. "China is most exposed to the US market, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| FSC aims to avoid an FX meltdown JoongAng Daily On Friday, premiums on credit default swaps for Korean government-issued foreign currency bondsincreased to 115 basis points, the highest level in eight months. As credit default swaps are derivatives that insure a holder against bond defaults, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| China's dollar dilemma worsens after US drama gulfnews.com Even though China's holding in US bonds has increased, their proportion in the country's overall foreign reserve is declining. Fearing over-dependence on the Treasury bonds, government-wealth managers — State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| After the Downgrade: Hedging U.S. Treasuries Seeking Alpha For the purposes of this example, let's assume our investor has $250000 in Treasury bonds. Since he's got $250000 in Treasury bonds, and we're using TLT as a proxy, the number of shares we'll enter will be $250000 / the most recent share price of TLT ... See all stories on this topic » |
