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.

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

The bonds issued by Fannie and Freddie were widely thought to carry an implicit US government guarantee.

In February 2010, a group of senior Chinese military officers, angered over US arms sales to Taiwan, called for China s government to sell off US government bonds in retaliation.

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

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

US municipal bonds are already trading at huge risk premia, and the first big government default hasn t even hit yet.

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

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

The banks that had loaned them the money replaced the old debt with new bonds at par value, which averaged 50 of the old bonds, and the US government provided some sweeteners.

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

In February 2010, angered over American arms sales to Taiwan, a group of senior military officers called for the Chinese government to sell off US government bonds in retaliation.

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.

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.

What makes US strategy reckless is that the Bush administration is attacking China at the very moment that America's dependence on Chinese purchases of US government bonds is growing.

These events have fueled fears that, even very deep and liquid markets such as US stocks and government bonds in the US and Germany may not be liquid enough.

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.

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.

A very large share of these are US treasury bonds and mortgages.

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.

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

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

We are united by what are for us the holiest bonds of love.

Because China s government does not owe much debt to the public, the PBC sold out its holdings of government bonds in 2005.

Aren t bonds safer?

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

Ten year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.

They invested, and still invest, their budgetary surpluses worldwide in government bonds and state owned enterprises.

Ten year yields on British government bonds were at historic lows long before Cameron took office.

When the euro was introduced, the authorities actually declared member states government bonds to be riskless.

As a result, bringing down yields on government, corporate, and asset backed bonds has less impact.

So, to meet the budget shortfall, a staggering 44.3 trillion in government bonds will be issued.

Japan's is a debt that cannot be paid and its government bonds deserve junk bond rating.

In his opinion, it is therefore too early to invest in European government bonds or banks.

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds.

Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds.

Indeed, China frets over the safety of the US Treasury bonds that it holds.

Japan limits its state investments overseas to bonds, mostly those issued by the US.

But the growing risk associated with US Treasury bonds should prompt China to reduce its holdings of US debt.

US budget deficits as far as the eye can see might excite fear of losses on US Treasury bonds.

With interest rates on government bonds in the US, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Switzerland at ridiculously low levels, investors are on a global quest for yield.