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.

Interest rates on government bonds were racing upward.

Long term interest rates for Italian government bonds declined from about 12 to about 4 in the ten years from 1994 95 to 2004 05.

More likely would be an IMF organized restructuring of the existing debt, swapping new bonds with lower principal and interest for existing bonds.

The current small difference between the real interest rate on such bonds (2.1 for 30 year bonds) and the nominal interest rate on conventional 30 year Treasury bonds (now 4.6 ) implies that the market expects only about 2.5 inflation over the next three decades.

Investors naturally respond to unsustainable debt by selling bonds until interest rates become ridiculous.

Assume that the interest rate on ten year bonds remains unchanged for the next five years and then rises from 2 to 5 .

An expectation that interest rates will be high sometime in the next decade should mean high interest rates on long term bonds today.

The ECB s announcement of a new program to purchase sovereign bonds has lowered market interest rates.

The higher interest rates would also apply to corporate bonds and bank loans, weakening business investment.

The third is temporary interest reduction bonds, where interest rates start from a very low level and rise over several years, followed by payment of a variable interest rate calculated as a floating international base rate plus a fixed margin.

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

New bonds, on which interest was back loaded, could be given the same accounting value as old ones on which interest was paid earlier.

Alternatively, low interest rates could push her (or her pension fund) to buy risky long maturity bonds.

Domestic deflation means that the real interest rate on Japanese bonds is higher than the nominal rate.

Debt service reduction, normally in the form of interest reduction bonds, has been offered in three ways.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero.

NEW HAVEN Real long term interest rates that is, interest rates on inflation protected bonds have fallen to historic lows in much of the world.

But, because Greek euro bonds were regarded as a close substitute for other countries euro bonds, the interest rate on Greek bonds did not rise as Greece increased its borrowing until the market began to fear a possible default.

(Over the course of the euro s first decade, interest rate spreads between ten year government bonds nearly disappeared.)

Indeed, the interest rate on inflation protected bonds has now become 0.5 , even for a five year maturity!

It has no choice the seven year notes are the shortest duration Treasury bonds that now pay interest.

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.

If foreign holders of dollar bonds become concerned that the unsustainability of America s situation will lead to higher interest rates and a weaker dollar, they will want to sell dollar bonds.

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.

Similarly, corporate bonds, that's saying that these corporations, whoever these bonds are issued by, they owe me collectively 10 billion dollars and in the meantime, they're going to pay me interest.

So nothing stopped the banks from selling lemon bonds.

Bonds. What kind of bonds, Pa?

The fundamental benchmark interest rates in modern financial markets are the so called risk free rates on government bonds.

CAMBRIDGE Long term interest rates are now unsustainably low, implying bubbles in the prices of bonds and other securities.

Our keen interest in Africa stems naturally from solid bonds of common history, goals and destiny which link us to that continent whose concerns and ambitions we fully share.

Holders of both state and federal bonds were thus offered a basket of long dated bonds, some with an interest rate of 3 , and others with 6 (with a ten year grace period).

If Greece had remained outside the eurozone and retained the drachma, the large increased supply of Greek bonds would cause the drachma to decline and the interest rate on the bonds to rise.

In this case, the price of loanable funds is the real interest rate. An expectation that interest rates will be high sometime in the next decade should mean high interest rates on long term bonds today.

But now interest rates for Italian and Spanish government bonds are on the rise again, closing in on about 6 .

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

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

The low interest rate on long term Treasury bonds has also boosted demand for other long term assets that promise higher yields, including equities, farm land, high yield corporate bonds, gold, and real estate. When interest rates rise, the prices of those assets will fall as well.

Bonds.

Bonds?

The low interest rate on long term Treasury bonds has also boosted demand for other long term assets that promise higher yields, including equities, farm land, high yield corporate bonds, gold, and real estate.

Their use ought to be confined to those who have an insurable interest in the bonds of a country or company.

That predictable dollar decline makes the relative return on holding dollar bonds even lower than the interest rate differential alone implies.

In 1985, the interest rate on ten year Treasury bonds was 10 , even though inflation had declined to less than 4 .

The greatest risk to bond holders is that inflation will rise again, pushing up the interest rate on long term bonds.