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For the nation's weak and troubled economy, the bond market's sudden jitters could not have come at a worse time Interest rates have dropped dramatically since last summer, when even the highest grade corporate bonds yielded close to 14%. But triple-A corporate bond yields still...
Yet in spite of the uncertainty, a long list of investment analysts and economists argue that interest rates are bound to keep falling in 1983 no matter what the economy does, making bonds still one of the best buys in all of finance. Not only are rates high, but inflation...
Further evidence of progress in the inflation fight came last week when the U.S. Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose during November by a mere 0.1%. As a result, inflation for all of 1982 now looks likely to remain under 5%, the lowest level in six years. Says David...
What happens to bonds in 1983 will depend crucially on the Federal Reserve. Having stressed repeatedly since 1979 that it was determined to prevent the money supply from expanding out of control, the Fed since midsummer has allowed money to grow at an annual rate that is now approaching 17...
An investor in municipal bonds, it was long thought, also had to own a winter home in Palm Beach and play polo in his spare time. Only the very rich, the reasoning went, would invest their money at low rates in order to receive tax-free interest. However, as inflation...