Word: bonds
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...industry has expressed a willingness to cooperate with Levitt, and half a dozen or so funds have decided to try communicating in English. Many of the "conservative" bond funds have got heat from investors who lost money in 1994 and are saying they didn't understand what they had invested in. The managers of these funds have learned that an uninformed consumer can easily turn into a hostile consumer...
...interview following the vote, Healy said that, under his continued leadership, the city will maintain its current financial policies, which include a $20 million bond sale which starts this month...
...received a brochure in the mail from Fidelity Investments, the giant financial company, inviting me to sign up for something called "Portfolio Advisory Services." For an annual fee of 1%, "a dedicated account executive" will invest my money for me, spreading it among Fidelity's dozens of "equity, bond and short-term mutual funds." My "portfolio" will be "personally tailored," of course, but basically the program promises what we all want: "preservation of assets as well as ... growth and income." This is known as a "wraparound account." It is one of the newer products invented by the financial-services industry...
Stocks fell as the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond climbed above 8% for the first time since May 1992. Although interest rates in general have been trending up recently, today's move stemmed partly from the fact that the Treasury is due to auction off $28.25 billion worth of two- and five-year notes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Traders apparently feared that this influx of new issues could drive prices down, and yields up, especially with the Federal Reserve expected to lift short-term rates again as soon as next month. In response, the Dow Jones Industrial...
...materials. The index -- considered one measure of possible future inflation -- is now at its highest level since February 1989. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 24.89 points, to 3911.15, in heavy trading. The S&P 500 fell 3.43, to 466.85. NASDAQ stocks dropped 2.82, to 767.80. Bond prices declined, as the yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury rose to 7.90% from 7.87%. The price of gold fell five cents, to $390.95 per oz., in London trading...