Sentence examples for held treasuries from inspiring English sources

Japan is the other big holder of Treasury securities, with $1.14 trillion in July, or 9.1 percent of publicly held Treasuries, in June.

The average maturity of privately held Treasurys is only 49 months.

It tells us nothing about the market's concern or lack thereof with the risks of holding Treasuries... Since the financial crisis began, the market determined part of the Treasury's cost of borrowing has steadily risen, except for a brief, sharp flight to safety around the fall of 2008.

The fund seldom holds Treasuries but now has about one-sixth of its assets in them.

OF course, if your intention is simply to hold Treasuries to maturity, you'll have no problem.

So are we really going to start paying interest to Chinese who hold treasuries and we're not going to pay folks their Social Security checks?

Still, trade-driven Japan is more than ever lured to holding Treasuries as a way to weaken its currency and make its exports more competitive.

Institutional investors have bid long-maturity prices up and yields down -- no bad thing for investors holding Treasuries directly or through funds.

There are many reasons why investors hold Treasuries but undermining them all is the belief that they will be repaid fully and on time.

But when market rates rise, you'll run into a pricing problem if you need to sell a bond — or if you hold Treasuries in a mutual fund, where they are priced daily.

While holding Treasuries may be a safer bet than stocks, a 10-year note that yields around 2.3 percent is not going to be enough to fund most people's retirement, investment professionals warn.