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Thirty-year bonds look attractive. There is solid demand for bonds, such as 20- and 30-year debt, so the sale will go smoothly.

This is a big win, not only for all the states involved, but for us, because it puts that money back into the Agricultural Development Fund ... and it doesn't hurt us over the next 20 years of making that bond payment,

It reduces the rate of return on that $6.5 trillion hiding in money-market accounts. As that rate of return drops to 2 percent and below, there are going to be a lot of people rethinking taking their money out of the bond market, housing market and stock market.

It is too early to worry about inflation in Japan. There is a strong demand for 20-year bonds and it is good to consider buying them.

Jim Bianco

It's not so much what bonds need to do. The focus is stocks and what that market does. Stocks need to re-introduce the element of risk and fall 10 percent off their highs to make bonds look good.

It's not our job to go and participate in this campaign. They're trying to sell the voters on something. We didn't know if we would oppose the bond or not. We actually conversed with doctor (Stan) Olson and toured twelve of the schools.

For me, it is of great concern when any person has been in an accident, or is injured, or killed, but in this case in particular, the friendship that bonds me with Ramon for a long time makes this an extra-personal worry,

Foreign investors are still quite keen to buy Canadian bonds as we still have low and stable inflation.

Foreigners own 11 percent of U.S. stocks -- that's not huge, but at the margin it makes a big difference. And right now there's massive foreign buying of bonds because they're a safe haven amid geopolitical uncertainty -- that could change as well.

They don't have the big names they had a couple years ago, but they have guys that have bonded together and created a special season for West Aurora.

They did that on their own. Team bonding is important to winning. But if we keep having close ones like this I won't have to worry about shaving my hair off.

This outcome was the likeliest coming in and already seemingly reflected in markets; both bonds and stocks may be marginally disappointed (for different reasons), but there are no major market implications, in our view.

This morning, we stopped seeing signs of incubator feeding. We saw him flying around with the other bird. He's starting to bond with the new eagle.

Natalie Cole

There was intense competition and crazy drama. But we three saw that we were bonding and after a while we decided to learn to work that way.

There will be a contested Democratic primary (for governor). I don't know if that influences turnout, but if it does, that would be helpful to Reiner. On the other hand, if there are a lot of bond issues on the ballot, that could have some fallout.

There was strong economic data this morning, which sent bond yields higher.

There's a chronic risk to the bond market from global economic recovery. Probably the most potent story is Japan.

There's a lot of focus in the bond market on oil. It's been such a hot story because of people's fears of higher inflation.

You would think the bond market would sell off.

You would think on a day when the bond market is very weak and the dollar is collapsing that technology would be weak. But, the weaker dollar is being interpreted as positive for the sale of technology abroad.

Your loyalty is more naturally to your teammates and coaches. If you've been around a few years like me, you develop a bond with the city and the whole concept of a franchise. But that's hard for a lot of guys to do these days.

Your bond rating is not so high, and you have a lot of government workers. That's not a good thing for us.

This is a real positive opportunity to help the Tulane athletes, ... It bonds you with Tulane University.

This is going to compel some Fed officials to talk about raising interest rates. For the financial markets, the employment report for December is very negative. We see stock prices down. We see bond yields up. We are going to see this pressure continue for the next couple of days.

This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.

This is the first time in months that we had great news and the bond market didn't celebrate. This time it took fantastic news and had a very lukewarm reception.

Swami Vivekananda

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.

An interesting fact about the bond market is that it displays a strong seasonality. Seasonality is as strong as you would find in some agricultural commodities. Within that, the pattern is that it rallies through the end of the year until Christmas Day.

Engagement is an emotional issue. If workers are not appreciated by their superiors and co-workers, the emotional bonds holding them to the employer weaken. They become much more receptive to other employment opportunities where they will be valued.

Employment growth will keep the economy going and the bond market will be susceptible to the strength of the data that will push the Fed to hike rates again. We expect yields to rise.

There's really nothing major out there to worry about. There's a lot of supply, a lot of corporate bonds that are in the pipeline that the market is also looking at.

As the major indexes move near four-year highs, there are some risks for stocks. But the economy is growing at a solid pace, as the payrolls number showed, bond yields remain low and there is still excess of capital out there, looking for good returns.

As the economy shows solid growth, Japanese bonds will stay one of the worst performing markets.