Treasury bond
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- noun
- /ˈtrɛʒəri bɑnd/
- Specialized
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bono del Tesoro
- Investors often choose Treasury bonds for their stability and long-term returns.
- U.S. Treasury bonds
- purchase of Treasury bonds
Of longer term assets, in our case long term treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
- Of longer term assets, in our case long term treasury bonds and mortgage-backed securities.
- These savings are exported abroad, buying things like Treasury bonds.
- These bonds are liabilities to the Treasury, just like all Treasury bonds are.
- Who comes in to buy the bonds when the government stops having buyers for the Treasury bonds?
- Not government debt, not treasury bonds, but corporate debt.
- And a simple reason has to do with bonds, the Treasury bonds.
- I don't see a real world actor buying fewer Treasury bonds as a result of that.
- I mean, I owned, I own a certain amount of bonds, Treasury bonds, right?
- Treasury bond strips and hedging them with a short Treasury bond position, Jed was able to book immediate illusory profits.
Examples
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Historically, stocks have averaged about 10% per year, Treasury bonds a little over 5%, and Treasury bills less than 4%.
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There are liquid financial markets for 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds and for 30-year residential mortgage-backed securities.
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But people around the world keep buying our Treasury bonds and until they stop doing that, we will continue doing this.
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And you would sell your small stocks and put your money where either in Treasury bonds or treasury bills.
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Our need to fund these purchases by selling Treasury bonds abroad creates risks for our financial structure.
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The nation is economically important to the United States, heavily invested in our Treasury bonds, and a significant trading partner.
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Auctions for U.S. Treasury bonds find no buyers.
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A collapse of the Treasury Bond market and dollar collapse will make its exports more competitive.
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The chart above on the 10-year US Treasury bond reflects a yield of 1.6% in July 2012.
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Retirees will be able to live off government annuities backed by Treasury bonds.
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Synonyms
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A loan to a government that pays interest over time and is usually safe
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A bond or note that a government sells to borrow money
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
Combining 'Treasury' (the government finance department) with 'bond' (a debt instrument) yields the obvious meaning of a government-issued debt security, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the basic sense. The technical maturity detail (10+ years) is specialized but does not undermine the compositional, cross-linguistically common logic of the phrase.
Etymology
Treasury bond combines two simple images: Treasury is the government's money office and bond is a written 'promise to repay' money. So a Treasury bond is a long 'promise to repay' from the government, which is why it means a long-term government loan people can buy as an investment.