Word: bonding
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...Bond Villains? No one ever said bond traders were gentlemen. But even by the bruising standards of this market, the rapid-fire sale of 12 billion euros' worth of European government bonds by a group of mainly London-based Citigroup traders last August was a shocker. Prices tumbled, and Citigroup promptly bought back 4 billion euros' worth of bonds for a tidy profit. Citigroup, the world's largest financial...
...absence. Last week European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet called for a "thorough" inquiry, while newspapers published internal memos that discussed strategies to "kill off" rivals - one scheme was reportedly dubbed "Dr. Evil" by the firm's staff, after the Austin Powers villain. Such language is typical. Bond trading "is like a blood sport," says Cari Lynn, who spent two years trading and has just written a book about the experience, "and I've seen the blood." The sums of money and risks are so great that they encourage extreme aggression, and if that means wiping out rivals...
...toweringly successful Hepburnesque actress. Bertie and Clea both have regular acting gigs on Starwatch, and when an older actor named Thad Michelet arrives on the set, it turns out that he is burdened with an overbearing parent of his own--his father is a wildly famous novelist. The three bond on sight, with an audible magnetic click...
Warren Buffett says it's difficult to find cheap stocks to buy; bond-market guru Bill Gross says the days of falling interest rates (and rising bond prices) are over. Real estate--the kind you live in as well as publicly traded trusts that invest in malls, offices and apartments--will stumble if, as expected, interest rates move higher. So what's an investor...
David Darst, chief investment strategist at Morgan Stanley's Individual Investor Group, argues that with the dollar's weakness, "you need something international to generate currency gains." Consider an unhedged international bond fund like Pimco Foreign Bond or T. Rowe Price International Bond. They pay a fixed income, which rises as the dollar falls and vice versa...