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- Glaxo bond Boosts Chances of Euro Mega Deals
- By Natalie Harrison LONDON (Reuters UK) - GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) well-received $9 billion (4.6 billion pound) bond this week, the largest dollar issue by a non-U.S. corporate in seven years, has raised confidence of possible euro mega deals in the next few months. The success of the...
- News items 2008-05-07
- Ambac May Need Capital: NY Regulator
- WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York state's top insurance regulator said on Thursday that bond insurer Ambac Financial Group Inc (ABK) may need more capital. "I think it's possible that they may need to raise additional capital," Insurance Superintendent Eric Dinallo said ...
- News items 2008-04-24
- Standard Life Q1 Sales Up 8 Percent
- By Clara Ferreira-Marques LONDON (Reuters UK) - Insurer Standard Life (SL) beat forecasts with an 8 percent rise in first-quarter sales on Wednesday, as growth in savings and investments and a large bulk contract offset weakness in some key pensions products at home. Standard Life's...
- News items 2008-04-30
- U.S. Slims Down After Bloated Credit: Pimco
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Consumers, banks and financial companies are "slimming down" after a bloated era of easy credit, but face an extended period of fixing their finances, Pacific Investment Management Co said in a new report. For investors, that means new bonds...
- News items 2008-04-28
- GMAC Posts Loss on Mortgage Woes
- By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Finance company GMAC said on Tuesday its first-quarter loss nearly doubled as more customers fell behind on mortgage payments, and warned that it might not be profitable until well into 2009, later than expected. The loss...
- News items 2008-04-29
- Ambac Shares Dive After Steep Loss
- By Dan Wilchins NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ambac Financial Group Inc (ABK), a bond insurer that struggled to raise capital earlier this year, posted a surprisingly wide first-quarter loss on Wednesday after setting aside $1 billion to cover future payouts on ...
- News items 2008-04-23
- Buffett Says Bought $4 Bln of Auction-rate Debt
- By Joan Gralla and Jonathan Stempel OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters UK) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said his Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa) (BRKb) holding company bought $4 billion (2 billion pounds) of auction-rate securities during the market's recent distress. Speaking at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett also...
- News items 2008-05-03
- Buffett Says Bought $4 Bln of Auction-rate Debt
- By Joan Gralla and Jonathan Stempel OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - Warren Buffett on Saturday said his Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa) (BRKb) holding company bought $4 billion of auction-rate securities during the market's recent distress. Speaking at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting, Buffett also...
- News items 2008-05-03
- bond Investors Bet on Rate Hikes as Inflation Looms
- By Eric Burroughs and Tomasz Janowski TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Investors rushed to bet on higher interest rates on Friday, dumping bonds on a conviction the world's top central banks were turning from nursing economies hobbled by a credit crisis to battling inflation. The...
- News items 2008-04-25
- More Big Losses Expected From Fannie, Freddie
- By Lynn Adler NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, reeling from the deterioration in the housing market, will likely post steep losses for the first quarter, but the two largest home funding companies are expected to escape previous record ...
- News items 2008-05-05
- MBIA Posts Huge Loss on Credit Derivatives
- By Dan Wilchins NEW YORK (Reuters) - MBIA Inc (MBI), the world's largest bond insurer, posted a quarterly loss of $2.4 billion on Monday as it took charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds linked to subprime mortgages. But MBIA's beaten-down...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Japan Inflation Hits 10-yr High
- By Yoko Nishikawa TOKYO (Reuters UK) - Japanese annual inflation hit a decade-high of 1.2 percent in March on soaring energy costs, adding fuel to a bond market rout as investors bet the central bank would eventually raise rates despite a slowing economy. The economy minister...
- News items 2008-04-25
- Merrill, Other Banks Tap Debt Markets After Losses
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investment banks including Merrill Lynch & Co (MER), UBS (UBSN) and Wachovia Corp (WB) sold more than $13 billion in new debt on Tuesday in a move to shore up their balance sheets. Financial firms "posted losses which eroded...
- News items 2008-04-22
- Zero Coupon Securities
- This tutorial encapsulates about Zero Coupon Securities. A zero coupon security, or a "stripped bond" is basically a regular coupon paying bond without the coupons. The process of "stripping" or "zeroing" a bond is usually done by a brokerage or bank. The bank or broker stripping the bonds then registers...
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- U.S. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS)
- This article is about the bond related to inflation concept. A new age dawned in the U.S. capital markets on Wednesday, January 29, 1997. The United States Treasury made its first issue of an inflation-linked bond, the 3.375% of 2007. This bond increases its principal by the changes in...
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- The Equity Risk Premium
- This paper analyzes the relative returns between stocks, bonds and bills to see what the returns to these different asset classes has been in the past, and to enable investors to understand what the relative returns could be in the future. The equity risk premium is the main input in...
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- The Basics of the bond Ladder
- When portfolio managers talk about strategies for success, they often refer to risk diversification and money management. These strategies separate investors who are successful because of luck from those using knowledge and skill. Now let's not be mistaken, luck isn't necessarily a bad thing, but possessing foundational skills will ultimately...
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- Real Estate Investing Through REITs
- Prior to the onset of the industrial revolution, wealth and power was measured primarily in terms of the amount of land owned by an individual or family. Although the twentieth century saw the rise of securitization and the resulting increase in stock and bond ownership, real estate investing can still...
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- Convertible bonds
- A convertible bond is a bond that gives the holder the right to convert or exchange the par amount of the bond for common shares of the issuer at some fixed ratio during a particular period. As bonds, they have some characteristics of fixed income securities. Their conversion feature also...
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- Extendible/Retractable bonds
- Extendible and retractable bonds have more than one maturity date. An extendible bond gives its holder the right to extend the initial maturity to a longer maturity date. A retractable bond gives its holder the right to advance the return of principal to an earlier date than the original maturity....
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