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Also, he added, the U.K.'s debt doesn't need to be rolled over as quickly as other nations, which makes the country less vulnerable to short-term bond-market volatility.

Bond Investors Are Hard of Hearing David Cottle 2012

More in Economy Tracking Missteps Behind World's Economic Slump Market Bets on Fed Miracle The FOMC said on Aug. 9 that it plans to keep short-term interest rates near zero until 2013, a shift in communications that officials consider significant and that has contributed to a drop in short-term bond-market yields.

Bernanke Is Unlikely to Promise New Action by the Fed David Wessel 2011

Some bond-market watchers question whether such individual company ratings can really be viewed apart from the sovereign ratings of the country in which they are based.

Japan's Credit-Rating Paradox Chester Dawson 2011

While reliable trade data are difficult to come by, the government of Dubai said in a bond-market prospectus last month that Iran was the second-largest re-export market for goods coming from Dubai, after India.

U.A.E. Cuts Off Ties to Iran Banks Chip Cummins 2010

"The ECB bond-market intervention is the counterpart of fiscal consolidation, the rescue is conditional," said Laurent Bilke, Nomura International's head of European rates strategy, in a research note.

Bund Yield Falls to Record Low Neelabh Chaturvedi 2011

At the same time we should try to make bond-market development an important channel for improving the proportion of direct financing, and further optimize aspects of institutional arrangements — including access to the corporate-bond market. debt audits, credit ratings and investor services.

Setting a Direction for China's Capital Markets 2011

He said the plans were vital to ensuring bond-market investors don't lose confidence in the U. K.'s fiscal plans, and pointed to Spain's credit downgrade this week.

Osborne: Spending Review Will Cut Uncertainty Laurence Norman 2010

Alan Schankel, managing director at financial firm Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia, said bond-market participants should see the decision to seek out Act 47 assistance as a positive development.

Harrisburg Asks State for Relief Kelly Nolan 2010

Markets reacted to the vote with a giant yawn, notwithstanding Treasury's threats that failure to pass such an increase will result in a parade of horribles including bond-market tumult and foreign-creditor revulsion.

The Debt Limit Dance 2011

To be sure, a two-year bond-market rally has allowed companies to stock up on cash and refinance old debts to reduce interest rates and extend maturities, so a market slowdown would be unlikely to squeeze borrowers in the short term.

Corporate Issues Slip Kellie Geressy-Nilsen 2011