Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gross

There's little doubt...that the bond market's salad days are over,

Eric Johnson

There's not much chance the bond will fail.

The trend for firm longer bonds and weak shorter debt will continue this month. Investors feel safer buying bonds on slumping stocks.

He's not only a great owner and a great manager, but he's also a tremendous fan of the game. That forms a bond which has grown between Mark and the people in Dallas and the region.

Inflation is still relatively benign. Yields are down, which is helping. People are getting out of bonds and probably putting some money to work in equities.

Inflation is creeping up, but it's not out of hand. I think that's pretty important. The bond market may have discounted a worst-case scenario over the last couple of months on inflation, and now maybe traders won't have to worry about the Fed moving too fast.

Inflation gains remain modest but they are gains. This suggests that interest rates will continue to rise as the Fed raises rates at the short end and bond traders discount trend growth and higher inflation at the long end.

Michael Thomas

Inflation fears are still around. Bonds will be on the back foot and stay under pressure.

Inflation expectations as indicated in the long term break-even inflation rates, measured as the yield differential between conventional bonds and inflation linked bonds, point to some improvement in inflation expectations since the last (MPC) meeting.

Inflation concerns are going to push up bond yields. Ten-year yields will rise to 2 percent in the first quarter.

In general, high yield has been one of the brighter lights in the domestic bond fund world.

Increasing pressure from the Finance Ministry helped bonds to gain. Bonds had a gradual decline over the past weeks and yields came to a level where they look attractive.

In my four years with this team, our team has never bonded better.

If people say they can't stand Ray and still watch her, then something else is going on. It's a sort of bonding experience. Online forums have made it easier for people to become sisters and brothers in hate. The irony is that, by writing and talking about her, her critics become her advertisers.

I once cashed out a bunch of savings bonds in the middle of the year and forgot about them. Then I got a nice little love note from the IRS saying they'd corrected my return.

If U.S. bonds seem rich to global (mainly Asian) investors in currency terms as the dollar appreciates, they will take profits on the appreciated assets.

If you had a scheduled investment program that included buying I Bonds every month, I wouldn't change it at this point. That's a sensible investment plan for the low-risk part of your portfolio, and you should stick with it.

Kenneth Fisher

If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.

I'm seeing and hearing about this all the time. In today's hectic world, where a 15-year-old can put on headphones and tune out for the precious few hours when you're home, travel can be a fantastic bonding experience.

If one only concentrated upon monetary policy, one could rationally conclude that both stocks and bonds would be crushed.

Robert Johnson

In 1995, ... the court ordered a $10,000 bond to ensure compliance with a cleanup effort. When that court order came down, it was cleaned up in a matter of days. Fast -forward to 2005 - if it works, it will be a win-win situation.

It's an equity story today in the bond markets. The equities decline is probably due to worsening economic fundamentals, so that will also pull yields down.

It's a negative for the bond markets. It's got to be a concern. The core rate is troublesome.

It just shows the bond we have with people.

It keeps ice from bonding to pavement. It's not nearly as slick.

It's been volatile and sloppy today. I'm not pleased with the action, ... But we're not down that much, so you've got to put it in perspective. There's a lot of confusion about the confidence number and the bond market's reaction.

It says a lot about the credibility and strength of our faculty practice plan, that we have the clinical engine capable of generating the monthly revenue needed to pay this bond back.

It's a commitment that schools have to make early enough to develop the budget to support it. It's hard to come back after a bond has passed and a budget is in place and try to do all these things.

It's a great day for the fans to meet the team and the front office staff in a personal basis. It's a good step to build a strong bond and relationship with our fans. Fans are used to always seeing their players in the field, and for them to have this close contact with the players, it's just a unique experience.

Kevin Towers

It's good for our players, too. I think it's important to be able to give back to some of these kid that are less privileged. I think it's a gut check for them to realize how fortunate they are and what they have and be able to bond and get to meet some of the kids in San Diego who aren't quite so lucky.

It's hard to sustain a bond market rally with stocks doing as well as they're doing.

It's been a real special bond with those two guys. They told me after we won it last year that this was going to be my going-away present. There were a few times we wondered about it, but we did persevere.

It's been a long bull run with yields lower, and we're just seeing a few chinks taken out of the bond market's armor.