Clearly, the Fed s objective is to increase bond prices, in the hope that lower long term interest rates will propel corporate investment.

Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

Corporate earnings in Brazil have gone up roughly as fast as stock prices.

It was write offs and devaluations, not austerity programs, that allowed bond prices to recover.

Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

In this scenario, bond prices in post industrial countries are heading for a serious fall as are real estate prices in California, New York, and London.

The bond market and share prices have responded to all of this bad news in a predictable fashion.

Taxpayers money was spent to purchase corporate stocks in a failed attempt to support collapsing stock prices.

My colleague and current Fed Governor Randall Koszner studied this episode and showed that not only stock prices, but also bond prices, soared after the Supreme Court upheld the decision.

Financial risk management, typically, is focused on the impact on corporate value due to adverse changes in commodity prices, interest rates, foreign exchange rates and stock prices (market risk).

Real estate rental yields and stock market payouts are low, and real estate and stock prices may well fall as much as or more than bond prices if interest rates spike.

The second component of a permanent anti crisis mechanism is a floor for bond prices and thus a ceiling for losses.

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Let's say they bond here, they bond here, and they bond here.

On the contrary, the real question is why the increase in stock prices has not outpaced growth in corporate earnings.

What, then, is an economist to do? One could emulate J.P. Morgan, whose standard response to questions about stock prices, bond prices, and interest rates was to say simply, The market will fluctuate.

The fundamental factors on the Chinese side are high corporate and household savings, together with some distortion of resource utility prices.

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Freeing up corporate bond markets would help foreign investors contribute to the development of the country s infrastructure while earning a good return as India s productive potential increases.

Whether through inflation or collapsing government bond prices, China will suffer significant capital losses on its foreign assets, further damaging its investment income balance.

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The interest rate spreads for Italian and Spanish government bonds have dropped dramatically, corporate bond issues have resumed, and a sense of normalcy is slowly pervading the continent.

The default threat was a way to depress bond prices in secondary markets, only to buy them back at a discount through the back door.

Moreover, while China may have profited from the rise in government bond prices over the last few years, prices have been inflated artificially by expansionary monetary policy in advanced countries, which implies that the bubble could burst.

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If the Republicans threats were credible, any news that increased the likelihood of a problem with the debt ceiling would send Treasury bond prices down and yields up.