Word: bonds
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John Makin, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, expects the bulls to keep stomping because of what he calls "America's amazing self-regulating economy." Makin notes that each time business activity has heated up recently, bond buyers, worried about a new burst of inflation, have driven interest rates higher. That has taken pressure off the Federal Reserve to jack up the rates it controls, which could make the stock market tumble. Then, with the economy cooling and fears receding of Fed tightening, investors have started pouring money into stocks again...
Reeves was referring to the city's bond rating, which is based on the size of its free cash fund...
Different versions of the tax are being considered, including a 1 percent tax on all property sales, or a 1.5 percent tax on sales over $300,000, Councillor Henrietta A. Davis said in an interview. The transfer tax will be used to fund a bond issue to assist displaced tenants...
...stock market poses an inflationary threat. When he added that the Fed would not rule out raising short-term interest rates in an effort to ease those inflationary pressures, the markets went temporarily insane. Within moments, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 101 points, while in the bond markets, interest rates on 30-year Treasury bonds soared from 6.66 percent to 6.80 percent. Investors fear that a tightening of credit will draw money out of stocks and into the bond market, a move that could end the six-year bull market run and in the process devastate...
Jake McGowan is squirming. It's this new book, Po Bronson's The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest (Random House; 302 pages; $23). Bronson, whose first novel, Bombardiers, skewered the world of Wall Street bond traders, has now set his sights on Silicon Valley. What fascinates McGowan is that the book reads like an old-fashioned roman a clef, in which fictional characters bear an uncomfortable resemblance to people you know--in this case, several computer-industry legends...