Sentence examples for bonds were priced from inspiring English sources

The bonds were priced in late March with a closing date of April 3.

It is asking states for information on how the bonds were priced after some traded at significantly higher levels shortly after being issued.

The auction included 50-year bonds priced to yield 3.27 percent; 10-year bonds were priced to yield 2.46 percent, down from the 2.96 percent at which it sold similar securities in early May; 15-year bonds were priced to yield 2.90 percent, down from the 3.46 percent at which they were last sold, in April.

The 10-year bonds were priced to yield 5.666 percent, well below the 6.647 percent it received at a similar auction on Aug. 2. The auction Thursday was the second this week that exceeded Spain's goals for raising money.

The yield, or interest rate, paid on 10-year debt was 5.96 percent, down from 6.19 percent on June 28, while five-year bonds were priced to yield 5.29 percent, compared with 5.84 percent last month.

By that thinking, investors might have concluded that the relatively low yield, or interest rates, on the German bonds — Wednesday's auctioned bonds were priced at an average yield of 1.98 percent — were not worth the potential risk that Germany's economy could soon be strained by the demands of bailing out Italy or Spain or other big debt-saddled euro union members.

Bonds are priced not just for perfection, but with close to 0 percent yields.

But the market is largely controlled by big financial institutions that have resisted providing customers with information about how bonds are priced.

"The fundamentals are still poor, but a lot of bonds are priced for an extraordinarily high default rate," Ms. Caron said.

Shares of mutual funds, which hold mixtures of stocks and bonds, are priced once a day after the American financial markets close.

Many other assets, such as municipal bonds, are priced off Treasuries, and we saw in September 2008 how adverse developments in one market can spill over into others.