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What do you make of the fact that bonds have rallied, a bet on deflation, while commodities have also rallied, a bet on inflation? There's still a lot of risk aversion among investors, which is why the bond market is so strong. In other words, if you are fearful of stocks, you're just going to stay in the fixed-income market. But we are in a low-yield environment now, so those same investors - individuals and investment managers - are reaching out for riskier assets to get more yield. That's why you see things like junk bonds rallying...
...history. Corporate raider Ivan Boesky - said to be an inspiration for the fictional Gordon ("Greed ... is good") Gekko, villain of the Oliver Stone film Wall Street - was sentenced to 3½ years in prison and fined $100 million in 1986 for insider trading. Financier Michael Milken, the "junk-bond king" who famously earned $550 million in 1987, avoided prosecution on similar charges by pleading guilty to other criminal counts. But the largest insider-trading conviction came two decades later, in 2007, when former Qwest Communications head Joseph Nacchio was convicted of selling $52 million in company stock while knowing...
...with the state's worst drought in two decades. The legislation creates a new seven-member council to oversee and restore the fragile Delta, imposes a 20% conservation mandate for cities by 2020 and requires the monitoring of groundwater levels throughout the state. It also places a $11.1 billion bond on next November's ballot to pay for overhauling the water system. The bond measure is larded with water projects statewide in an attempt to encourage passage...
Healy, who has been in office for 28 years, has garnered the support of most councillors and has presided over the maintenance of the city’s AAA bond rating. In January, his contract was renewed for another three years by a nearly unanimous vote, in which Councillor Craig A. Kelley was the only one to dissent...
...Sade and Marat as much more closely allied in some ways,” Leaf says, who used the interplay of the two temporally-divided settings—the asylum and the revolution—to help create the bond...