Sentence examples for bonds far from inspiring English sources

Yet for most of their history, stock exchanges traded government bonds far more than equities.

In 2002, Greece paid 5 percent on its 10-year government bonds, far below the 15 percent it paid seven years earlier.

From 2009 to 2012, a simple, low-fee mix of 60 percent stocks and 40 percent bonds far outperformed hedge fund indexes.

So when three 17-year-old boys head out on a seal hunt, and only two return, the fallout strains bonds far deeper than those of the two survivors.

Refinancing them may be a struggle in today's financial markets.Martin Fridson of FridsonVision, a research firm, has calculated that a severe recession (which, he stresses, he is not predicting) could result in a peak rate of between 16% and 20% of annual defaults on corporate bonds, far higher than in 1991.

Despite the horror stories behind Black Americans' link to the land throughout our national history, these losses represent an erosion of cultural, geographic and heritage bonds far greater larger than the Black farmers' small presence in American agriculture.

Such premiums mean that the value of the bond far exceeds the value of the stock into which it can be converted, making the prospect of conversion remote.

The rates of interest are 2.8% for a one-year bond and 4% for a three-year bond – far better than the return available on savings accounts in the wider market.

The gulf between the two new dwarfs is 12 times bigger, making their gravitational bond far more delicate.

But bonds were far less volatile throughout.

With the auction Thursday, the government has sold about €25.5 billion in bonds so far.