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I bought shares of sprint at $4.35 not to long ago and it is recently dropping fast … it rose up to over $5 and this week dropped about 60 cents ( about 12%)
Is this a sign to sell?
i have no idea what your talking about cain.
I always hear people say that stocks should make a return of anywhere from 8-12% on average, but don’t understand how that’s possible. For people to make that kind of return, don’t a lot of people have to lose money in stocks for you to make that much? I’ve started investing during the downturn, and am trying to understand how things are in more so-called ‘normal’ times.
I do not believe GM will disappear for good and I believe they will come back and i’d like to purchase stock. Now, is there anything I need to consider, when buying stock of a company in liquidation?
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Callable bonds give issuer option to call or repurchase outstanding bonds at predetermined call prices (generally a premium over par)
par value means the redemption value of a bond paid at maturity
In this scenario
If you bought a callable bond that is selling at $10,000 with an annual coupon payment of $1000 for the next 10 years. It is currently the third year, and the issuer decided to take back the bond, how much would the issuer have to give you?
Would the issuer give you $10 000 + ($1000 x 10years) + premium, how would this benefit the issuer?
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If you bought a bond that pays in coupons, can the interest payments you get from the coupon change?
If not, why do people buy it at a premium?
If it does, does that mean it is not guaranteed how much you get when bond reaches maturity? And what causes the coupon rate to change?
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600 Shares of RIL allotted in the IPO of 1985-86 have been lost for a long time. No details except Shareholders names and address are available. What is the best way to recover them, who to contact and how? After bonus shares etc. what are they worth today? Where do the dividend and the bonus shares go, if no one recieves them
We were talking about the gold standard in history, and about when we dropped it in America. Well, I was wondering if the euro is based upon a gold/silver standard?
What caused that major dip?
Is it now a time to buy BP stocks?
It’s down to 31 today. What’s your prediction on how low it’ll go and when to buy?
I know it’ll be risky, but as long as they don’t go bankrupt I figure it’ll be a winner in the long haul.
Even if the scale of U.S. Treasury bonds in circulation from three years ago to 4.4 trillion U.S. dollars soared to 7.96 trillion U.S. dollars today, even though researchers are still issued by major investment banks report is expected by the end of the 10-year bond yields rose to at least 4.14%, Current U.S. national debt is still preferred destination of global investors, hedge option risk preference is very strong even Wall Street investment banks also joined the army in the purchase of government bonds surging.
U.S. 10-year bond yields in the past month have plummeted 37 basis points. As one night this week, the yield of 3.21%, earlier hit a low of 3.15%.
Federal records show that on May 26 this year so far, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan 18 Wall Street, including major U.S. treasury bonds held by brokers total of 23.2 billion U.S. dollars from the year rose to 37.1 billion U.S. dollars. At the same time, these firms holding high-yield corporate bonds dropped significantly in the total amount of 17 percent to 211.1 billion U.S. dollars.
European sovereign debt fears dominated the recent rise in market risk aversion, while the United States was not a cause of great satisfaction out of macro-economic data reveals the risk of economic recession or slowdown in the market over-amplification, the combination led to expansion of the panic, institutional and individual investors into the dollar and bond funds will strong.
In addition to hedging demand, the revenue bonds to ensure consideration is one of many recent investors. Such as the three major U.S. stock indexes the Dow in April from the year down nearly 10% of the high points, the spread of market pessimism, but the bond market is expected to slow due to economic growth and declining inflation pressures seem alive. In particular, in April this year, U.S. consumer price index for 1 year decreased 0.1% for the first time, the market from before the moment to worry about future inflation fears of deflation, the major investment banks also have the 10-year Treasury yield is expected by the end of 2010 lowered from 4.14% to 4.25% level.
Lost in Spain “AAA” debt rating and said the poor state of Hungary, the euro-dollar exchange rate is one stroke below the psychologically important level of 1.20, the exchange rate hit 1.1877 Monday the 4-year low, making the influx of investors and further the bond market.
U.S. Treasury data show, a month to the global total amount of funds to buy dollar assets from the previous 47.1 billion U.S. dollars soared to 140.5 billion U.S. dollars, highlights the investor pessimism on the global economy growing.
But despite the recent U.S. Treasury once again sought after by the market, there are still some institutions holding bonds bearish view of the future.