Your government bonds, your savings bonds, your liberty bonds.

The government bonds.

Sally bought some government bonds.

Germany needs both China s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.

Italian savers, for example, still hold a significant volume of foreign assets (including German bonds), and foreign investors still hold a sizeable share of Italian government bonds. But interest rates on longer term Italian government bonds (and Italian private sector borrowing costs) are about 250 basis points higher than those on the German equivalents (this is the risk premium).

Ten year government bonds in Greece and Ireland, for example, now pay nearly a full percentage point above the rate on comparable German bonds, and Italy s rate is almost as high.

b Yield on long term government bonds.

Expensive government bonds will shift demand to mortgage or corporate bonds, pushing up their prices.

Bonds are simply promises to pay or government IOUs.

The German government mustn't help them.

The German government mustn't help them.

The Bank of England is buying UK government bonds ( gilts ).

Governments usually borrow by issuing securities, government bonds and bills.

The current differences in the interest rates of euro zone government bonds show that the financial markets regard a break up as a real possibility. Ten year government bonds in Greece and Ireland, for example, now pay nearly a full percentage point above the rate on comparable German bonds, and Italy s rate is almost as high.

Commercial banks loaded with weaker countries government bonds became potentially insolvent.

How much money do you plan to invest in government bonds?

But Sally bought 40,000 worth of government bonds in her name.

In the US, the interest rate on government bonds now rises from 1.80 at five years to 2.86 for 10 year bonds and 3.70 for 30 year bonds.

With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity.

Meanwhile, foreigners still hold Italian government bonds worth about 30 of GDP.

Nevertheless, the market for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) has so far remained stable.

Holders of European government bonds believed that they knew what they had bought.

My landlady thought I ought to sell the stock and buy government bonds.

Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Government Commission on the German Corporate Governance Code (2005).

When the euro was introduced, regulators allowed banks to buy unlimited amounts of government bonds without setting aside any equity capital, and the ECB discounted all eurozone government bonds on equal terms.

The spread of the rate between 10 year German and Spanish bonds has reached a new historically high level.

The substantial surge in the interest rate on Greek bonds relative to German bonds in the past few weeks shows that the market now regards such a default as increasingly likely.

Why, Confederate bonds, of course. Confederate bonds.

Bonds

Bonds?

Bonds.

Relative to German bonds, the spreads in February of secondary market yields of government bonds with maturities of close to ten years were 141 basis points for Italy, 257 for Greece, and 252 for Ireland, compared to just 32, 84, and 25 basis points, respectively, in 2000.

But this is because government bonds are purchased mostly by domestic organizations and households.

The proceeds were then invested in Greek government bonds and loans to Greek companies.

Soon, everyone was selling their Consols their British government bonds and prices dropped sharply.

There was also government money invested in the project, with the Dutch government providing 50 of Fokker's stake and the West German government having 60 of the 35 German stake.

But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed equivalent.

These bonds are referred to as callable bonds.

With the government assuming credit risk, mortgages become as safe as government bonds of comparable maturity. Hence, the Fed s intervention in the housing market is really an intervention in the government bond market the purported switch from buying mortgages to buying government bonds is of little significance.

Ambassador, Special Coordinator of the German Government for Human Resources Management Issues and German Personnel in International Organizations

Massive purchases of government bonds by the ECB would be the worst type of bailout.

With credit markets impaired, the Fed could buy more government bonds or private sector debt.

Performance bonds

Single bonds