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Indian Bond Market: Government Bonds Lead
The Reserve Bank of India recently surprised the market by reducing the repo rate by 25 bps in January 2015, and market experts are expecting further reduction. While the equity markets were in euphoria, with the S&P BSE SENSEX returning 6.15% in January 2015, the bond market told a different story. The Indian bond market…
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International events take the front seat
Due to the political issues surrounding Russia and the Ukraine, the yield of the 10-Treasury as measured by the S&P/BGCantor Current 10 Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index tightened by 8 basis points over the course of the last week of February. The index returned 0.39% for the month as the year-to-date is now a 3.94%. Investors…
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ETFs and William Shakespeare in 2014
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Juliet says to Romeo when trying to illustrate it is the essence of a something which is important, not what it’s called. If Shakespeare were alive today, and Juliet were an investor, would he have her say the same things about an ETF? Would she…
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