"broke bonds" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of breaking or severing a relationship, agreement, or bond between two people or groups. Example: "The scandal and subsequent legal troubles broke the bonds between the once close-knit business partners."
After five years of bailouts financed largely by European taxpayers, wealthy European nations have decreed that when a bank or country goes broke, bond investors and perhaps even bank depositors will pay a significant portion of the bill.
In this case, however, the delocalized π-electronic system of graphite layer is destructed and σ-bonds are partially broke, while free bonds that are formed provide the attachment of various functional groups to the nanocarbon surface.
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(The city utility is so broke, it issued new bonds in order to pay the fees to get out of the old bonds!) According to a recent Reuters article, since corporate bankruptcies have declined, investors specializing in "distressed" hedge funds have begun circling troubled municipalities, with no city "attracting more attention than Detroit".
And now the city is broke, relegated to junk-bond status.
Stephen Lewis, chief economist at London Bond Broking in the City, said this was creating tensions in the euro block which could turn into a currency crisis.
That makes it less attractive to hold swaps, as both the swap itself and any offsetting hedge add to a bank's leverage, even though the hedge serves to reduce risk.At the same time the profits from bond-broking are being compressed as trading moves away from adrenaline-driven salesmen on phones and onto electronic platforms.
Their prices plunged during the recession when there were fears that many of the companies issuing such bonds would go broke.
If Charter never goes broke, the same thing happens: The bonds return to par.
The general feeling was that all the junk bond issuers were going broke.
