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Tips on how to use ETFs to get income from your savings
more risk. The maximum yield you can get without risk of losing principal is 2.74%, which is the current yield on a 30 - year Treasury bond. To get that yield, you'd have to hold the note for the entire 30 years. And, yes, you'd probably lose money
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Tips on how to us ETFs to get income from your savings
more risk. The maximum yield you can get without risk of losing principal is 2.74%, which is the current yield on a 30 - year Treasury bond. To get that yield, you'd have to hold the note for the entire 30 years. And, yes, you'd probably lose money
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Signs indicate Treasuries could be a bubble about to burst
and vice versa. If rates were to rise 1.5 percentage points, a current 10-year T-note would fall 23% in price. A 30 - year Treasury bond would fall 47% with a similar rise in yields. Marc Faber, editor of the Gloom, Boom and Doom report, says this
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Stocks slip as investors await signs on economy
welcomed a better-than-expected report on jobless claims and data showing growth in retail sales. Strong results from a 30 - year Treasury bond auction also supported the market, after weak Treasury sales earlier in the week stoked fears of rising interest rates
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Stocks close higher on upbeat jobs, retail reports
trading when the Treasury Department said an auction for 30 - year Treasury bonds attracted strong demand. That allowed investors to 3.86% from 3.96% late Wednesday. The yield on the 30 - year Treasury bond fell to 4.70% from 4.77% late Wednesday. The
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Traders cash in winnings after week's huge gains
about weak demand at a government debt auction fanned the market's pullback. Bond prices tumbled following an auction of 30 - year Treasury bills in which the government had to pay greater interest than expected. That was worrisome to traders because it could
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Treasury bringing back 7-year note
30-year bonds eight times annually, up from the current four per year. The government also said it will auction $67 billion next week in three-year, 10-year and 30 - year Treasury securities, a record amount at a quarterly refunding.
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Credit markets head into uncertain 2009
19/32 to 113.14 and its yield rose to 2.22% from 2.06%. At its highest in 2008, the yield hit 4.27%. The 30 - year Treasury bond fell 3 22/32 to 136.21 and its yield rose to 2.69% from 2.59%. That's well off its high of 4.79% during
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Saving to retire is easy as 1-2-3, or a combo
earn a guaranteed 8% anywhere these days. An ultrasafe 30 - year Treasury bill, for example, now yields just 4.25%. •Inflation bonds that should, over the long term, return more than 30 - year Treasury bills. Several academic studies have shown that if you
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Bold cut means savings for consumers
which erodes the value of a bond's interest payments. After the Fed's announcement Tuesday, the yield on the benchmark 30 - year Treasury bond rose to 4.75% from 4.71%. The financial markets also displayed inflation worries by driving up the price of
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Now could be a good time to pick up some junk-bond funds
holdings over the next few months, though. Remember, bonds are long-term debts that you can buy or sell. A $1,000 30 - year Treasury bond is a $1,000 loan to the U.S. government. If you had bought your $1,000 T-bond when the government sold
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Financial Makeover: Income Alternatives
been on a decline for more than 20 years now. In the early '80s money market funds yielded 19 percent and you could buy 30 - year Treasury Bonds yielding over 15 percent. So it is quite understandable that many investors are now more willing to take on additional
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Why Bonds Matter
That's because bonds across the board - from short-term, 3-month securities all the way out to the now-dormant 30 - year Treasury , declined, forcing banks and other lenders to lower the rate they charge consumers and businesses for mortgages and certain
