Sentence examples for basic basket of bonds from inspiring English sources

WITH only a week left in 2011, the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index has a dubious distinction: its performance has been far worse than that of a basic basket of bonds in the last 12 years.

The price of the basic basket of goods bought by the poor has risen much faster than the broader measure of inflation over the same period.

Those households unable to afford a basic basket of goods and services including food, education, transport and clothing are considered below the poverty line.

This basic basket of indicators is also not intended to be restrictive, and focuses on indicators appropriate for quantitative analyses.

Households in poverty were unable to afford a basic basket of foods; those in absolute poverty were unable to afford basic foods that guaranteed an adequate intake of calories.

The purpose of these indices is simple to quantify the average cost of purchasing a basic basket of goods and services deemed essential to living (in the case of price indices) or the average price of a basket of shares being traded (in the case of stock market indices).

In 2004, workers' monthly wages averaged between a low of $41.50 in the agricultural sector and a high of $98.00 in the banking sector, whereas the average cost of a "basic basket" of goods was $157.40 [ 14].

The Spanish NHS has not yet in fact defined a basic basket of services, although Royal Decree 63/1995 established a general framework of benefits, as did the Law 16/2003 of 28 May (Fig.  2).

This is because with an ETF you are stuck with the entire basket of bonds, whether you want them all or not.

If rising prices at home are what's worrying you, it's also possible to hedge against them with inflation-indexed bonds or a basket of bonds and currency futures.

Table 3 Price of the basic basket Supermarket Price Mean SD Max.