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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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Investors love U.S. Treasury bonds despite debt worries |
USA TODAY - April 19, 2011 - By John Waggoner
Even though Standard & Poor’s has threatened to downgrade the nation’s credit rating, and well-known bond managers have sold their Treasury bonds, the U.S. debt market continues to thrive — and even rally.
Despite all the pessimism, Treasury securities have ultralow yields, a sign of favor with Wall Street. And the government has plenty of buyers when it auctions more debt.
What gives? “In terms of their actual exposure to bonds, we’re not seeing anything like the hate being expressed in words,” says Mark Hulbert, editor of TheHulbert Financial Digest. “What they do may not be the same thing as what they say.”
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Among the Treasuries-bashing:
•Pimco’s top bond manager, Bill Gross, says Pimco Total Return, the company’s flagship fund, doesn’t own Treasuries because of the risks if the U.S. government doesn’t substantially reform spending
•Dan Fuss, star bond manager of Loomis Sayles, says, “In the long term, we’re very concerned about Treasuries.”
•Hulbert’s survey of bond sentiment measures bond holdings by newsletter investment advisers and stands at -10 — bearish, but nowhere near the low of -74 in December.
And the yield on the 10-year Treasury bond is just 3.37%, down from 3.81% on April 23 last year. At Monday’s auction of three-month T-bills, the government received $4.82 in bids for every $1 in debt offered for sale. Yield: 0.05%.
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