Second, divide your money among stocks and bonds, big and small, and value and growth.
As many advisers suggest, divide money among stocks and bonds, big and small, but further subdivide between foreign and domestic, since markets outside the United States may grow faster in coming decades.
If the default rate were to peak out above 5%, as Moody's warned it might during the first quarter of 2000, junk bonds' big coupons would shrink to unattractive levels.
In an effort to get retail investors back into bonds, big brokerage houses like Salomon Smith Barney have created a new class of securities that trade like stocks but are actually backed by bonds and bear interest.
Newly minted megastar Connery was making noises about leaving: they needed to make Bond bigger than the actor playing him, and to make the film an event.
The higher the mortgage rate paid by homeowners and the lower the interest paid on the bonds, the bigger the profit for the bank.
For instance, in Malaysia (38.2%) and South Korea (23.4%), the value of outstanding corporate bonds is bigger, relative to GDP, than in America (22%).
The longer that banks find it hard to sell longer-term bonds, the bigger the rump of debt that needs to be refinanced will grow.
The Giants faltered on Bonds's big night, losing 8-6.
It suggested further benefit cuts, more bond sales, bigger contributions from the state or federal intervention.
