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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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Crunch Averted as Bond Sales Exceed $3 Trillion: Credit Markets |
SFGate - Dec. 28, 2011 - By Tim Catts
Corporate bond sales around the world surpassed $3 trillion for the third straight year as yields plunged, belying concern that Europe's fiscal crisis would lock out borrowers.
General Electric Co., the world's largest manufacturer of jet engines, and Utrecht, Netherlands-based Rabobank Nederland led $3.18 trillion of offerings, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Global sales of $3.16 trillion compare with $3.2 trillion in 2010 and $3.91 trillion in 2009.
Bond investors favored the most creditworthy companies as European leaders struggled to preserve their common currency and Standard & Poor's stripped the U.S. of its top AAA grade. Colgate-Palmolive Co. and Southern California Edison Co. obtained record-low interest rates on their debt even while relative yields expanded to the most in more than two years.
"Issuers that remain focused on yield and agnostic on spreads are the ones who have benefited most," said Brendan Hanley, a New York-based managing director of debt capital markets at Bank of America Corp., which helped sell $164.8 billion in company debt in 2011. "Although a given day or week couldn't be guaranteed, market access was there for issuers from the weakest triple-Bs all the way up the ratings spectrum."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/28/bloomberg_articlesLWVW820D9L36.DTL#ixzz1hqZfgASA
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