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

National risk premia would then disappear, and German savers would have no problem investing their savings in the eurozone s periphery, knowing that the German government would ultimately underwrite these countries government bonds.

U.S. government bonds.

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.

When the yield on German government bonds falls to 2 , which is negative in real terms, German savers must redouble their efforts to achieve a certain target for retirement income.

For example, a German investor would consider United States bonds to have more currency risk than German bonds (since the dollar may go down relative to the euro) similarly, a United States investor would consider German bonds to have more currency risk than United States bonds (since the euro may go down relative to the dollar).

Despite these scary results, the interest rate spread for Italian government bonds relative to German bunds has increased by only 40 basis points since the election.

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

Interest rates on government bonds were racing upward.

Government bonds, on the other hand, have no covenants.

Now, government bonds are by design instruments of debt.

The scholars urge the German government to

The government bonds of peripheral eurozone countries thus became toxic.

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

To a large extent, this collateral consisted of government bonds.

Later, governments in Europe started issuing perpetual bonds (bonds with no maturity date) to fund wars and other government spending.

And we said, OK on the assets side, had some government bonds, had some AAA corporate bonds, some commercial mortgages.

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.

For example, individual countries government bonds could be replaced by Eurobonds.

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

The dam is being funded by government bonds and private donations.

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.

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

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

In January 1927, when the government proposed to redeem these bonds, rumor spread that the banks holding these bonds would go bankrupt.

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

So 1 billion of government bonds, that's an asset that says the government owes me a billion dollars.

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

Adding cocos to government bonds will require solving a host of technical problems.

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

The Federal Reserve, in particular, has bought huge quantities of US 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.

A major concern of the German Constitutional Court is the similarity between the ESM s Secondary Market Support Facility (SMSF) and the ECB s OMT program, both of which imply the purchase of government bonds in secondary markets.

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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.

The FED replies saying sure, we'll buy ten billion in government bonds from you .

As such, it is responsible for planning and implementing the German space programme on behalf of the German federal government.

The real test for the German government is the labor market.

The German Government was also called upon to transfer the core of central government to Berlin.

The old government bonds in this case would be converted at a reduced rate into replacement bonds, which are partly guaranteed (at 80 ) by the participating states.

This bill makes American Samoa bonds more attractive to investors and will save the Government of American Samoa interest costs on municipal bonds it may issue.16

Each month, China sold a net sum of about 7 billion in US government bonds.

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

European governments are not in a position to instruct the ECB to purchase government bonds.