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The euro has often ignored policy maker pronouncements and “danced to its own tune” during the region’s sovereign debt crisis, according to a working paper published by the European Central Bank.
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Donald R. Mullen Jr., who helped Goldman Sachs Group Inc. profit from the U.S. housing crash, is giving the firm and its clients a way to gain from the recovery.
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“Outsized” returns in corporate bonds are a thing of the past because an increase in government yields as the economy recovers will squeeze the debt’s performance, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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Debt strategists at top-ranked Wall Street firms can’t agree on what investors should do as yields on everything from government to corporate and asset-backed bonds plunge to record lows.
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Bank bonds are the most expensive relative to the debt of non-financial companies since before European leaders crafted a $1 trillion bailout as concern eases the region’s sovereign debt crisis will spark more losses.
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The percentage of corporate bonds considered in distress is at the highest in six months, a sign debt investors expect the economy to slow and defaults to rise.
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Leveraged buyout speculation is triggering an “unrealistic” surge in the cost of hedging against losses on the debt of potential takeover targets, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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The $6.5 trillion market for investment-grade company bonds is the most attractive for risk- averse fixed-income investors, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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U.S. corporate bond sales soared 31 percent this month, the busiest July on record, as yields fell to the lowest in more than six years on growing investor confidence in the economic recovery.
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Companies facing the biggest pension deficit since at least 1994 are selling bonds at the fastest pace in more than seven years to plug the hole, betting that future returns will exceed their borrowing costs.
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