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Lower-risk bond funds invest in things such as gilts (government bonds) and corporate bonds, but your income is likely to be 2%-3 2%-3%
If, in addition, the state could guarantee part of the value of the bonds they would quickly have high-quality ratings.
Yields were all higher – meaning prices were down – on Portuguese, Spanish and Italian bonds on Friday.
At the same time, yields on benchmark 10-year German government bonds, or bunds, fell to a record low of 0.05%, reflecting their perceived safe-haven status among investors.
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Other creditors agreed to cut a deal with Argentina in 2005 and again in 2010 by swapping their bonds for new ones worth less.
"Given the ban on monetary financing of states, I don't think it's OK that banks which don't have access to the markets are being granted loans which then finance the bonds of their government, which doesn't have access to the markets itself," he said, in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt.
But he said there was "good unity" and the fact that bonds offer opportunities for longer contracts and additional funding into the system meant that they should not be ignored by charities.
Yields shot up not only on Dutch bonds but on Spanish, Italian and French 10 year bonds as well.
The Dutch must also test the support of the financial markets this morning, with an auction of up to €2.5bn of debt (in two year and 25-year bonds).
