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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
| Municipal Bonds |
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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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| S&P/BGCantor US Treasury Bond |
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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Is the Rising Bond Market Your Friend or Foe? |
Forbes - Nov. 2, 2011 - By Liz Davidson
Financial experts like to talk about how stocks outperform bonds “in the long run.” (When most of us hear “long run” we think at least 10 years.) But for the first time since before the Civil War, bonds have outperformed stocks over the last 30-yr period. How did this happen and what does it mean for your investment portfolio?
The why is a simple function of supply and demand. When interest rates go down, bond prices go up. That’s because if new bonds are paying 3%, people are willing to pay more for the old bonds still paying 4%. Well, interest rates have been declining for a while now. Believe it or not, you could get a CD in the bank paying about 14% in 1981. In addition, all the recent financial turmoil has caused people to flee to the perceived safety of our government bonds, not just in the U.S. but investors all over the world too.
In some ways, this is a good thing. All things being equal, low interest rates help the economy by making it easier for consumers, businesses, and governments to borrow in order to spend and invest. Gains in the bond market may have also helped to offset some of your losses in the stock market. In fact, long term government bonds were one of the only types of investments that actually did well during the 2008 financial crisis. That’s how diversification works, assuming you owned some bonds BEFORE you needed them. They’re kind of like insurance in that sense.
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