You can lose money in bonds.
The principal distinction in accounting for investments in stocks and in bonds is that interest on bonds accrues from day to day.
There is even a fledgling market in bonds explicitly backed by delinquent mortgages.
Smith drew his money out of the band and invested it in bonds.
The Chinese finance ministry issued Rmb15bn in bonds to institutional investors, with the remaining Rmb5bn directed at retail investors.
The bond market's so hot that many investors eager to invest in bonds, But again, many professional investors to hesitate.
As he said this he was wondering to himself how their government bonds were faring, since all the company's ready money of three hundred thousand dollars was invested in bonds.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
He made his pile first by cheating investors in bonds and then through conspiring successfully to rig the market in steel.
Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds
But with lower yields, will investors continue to dabble in bonds, or will they switch their attention to other equity-like assets?
And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, there is a certain man left in bonds by felix.
It would let the government settle up with the holders of around $20 billion in bonds, part of about $95 billion-worth on which Argentina defaulted in its economic collapse in 2001.
In a nutshell, an investor should consider investing in bonds as an alternative asset class for the purpose of diversification and in consi-deration of his overall investment objectives.
" The borrower announces that it wishes to issue, say,$ 20 million in bonds to mature in twenty-five years. a single financial institution or a group of financial institutions (called a syndicate) can submit a bid for the entire issue."
Interest rates aside, the retail investor should pay heed to a more fundamental principle a-bout investing in bonds:it does not matter whether interest rates are high or low-bonds play an essential part in a person's investment portfolio.
