Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

The bond market is far less sanguine about the economy than the Fed is. They are essentially saying we don't see that much strength.

The bond market is collapsing. What goes up must come down.

The bond market is at a ridiculous valuation, whereas the stock valuation is low relative to bonds.

The bond market has little to track other than the geopolitical developments and equities,

The bond market has gone crazy. It's unbelievable what's going on.

The bond market has been zigzagging this year. Every time the Fed acts, and the feeling in the market is that the economy is going to bounce back strongly, it causes pain for bonds because it threatens inflation,

The bond market has been moving on two things today: the movement of stocks and this speculation about the yuan.

The bond market has been hit hard the last few days on these concerns.

The bond market has been focused on looking for nuggets of weakness. But the payroll number could tip things the other way. Another strong number could start to change people's minds.

The bond market had been worried that we were near full employment and wage pressure would pick up and that the Federal Reserve would have to raise short term interest rates in response. But now that the all important employment cost index was up just 0.6 percent, the Fed doesn't need to raise short term rates because the economy is slowing down.

The bond market had been thinking that the weak economic numbers that we've seen would cause the Fed to think twice about raising rates,

The bond market had a pretty good move upwards yesterday, but I don't think we're going to get back to that kind of mania to buy Treasuries that we had in the month of September.

The bond market got very oversold. To expect a technical bounce is reasonable.

The bond market finally caught up with the stock market.

The bond market expects the stock market to fall very hard ... people are trading scared.

The bond market doesn't like this post-Rita reaction. That's what started it today.

Stocks and bonds rallied at first, but now have hemmed down. Stocks are coming off a superb day yesterday, so that may be a little profit taking.

Stock losses are giving bonds some juice this morning; we're back to feeling that the economy is weak and that bonds are a buy here.

That human bond has to be there. It can't become impersonal. These are people they deal with everyday.

Bill Gross

That is not to say that long government bonds won't go up in price if the 'system' suffers some elimination, slower growth, or to be frank, a recession in 2006,

Ron Reagan

Swimming was a big deal for us. It was sort of a bonding thing for my dad and I.

There's talk of an earthquake in the Gulf of California. This is pushing bonds up.

There was a sense that a year-end rally would take us higher, but there's some concern from the bond market flattening. The inverting of the yield curve would bring us more problems in 2006. We also have light volume, exaggerating moves to both sides.

This is a unique team in that all these guys like everybody. They really bond together very well and work very well together, no matter which 11 players are on the field. They were in-sync tonight. It's fun for me to be around a group of guys like this.

Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.

Once bond yields started moving higher again, investors reflected on the interest rate environment and decided to take profits off the recent highs.

Not only are emerging countries unlikely to default because they are in good condition, they are unlikely ever to default on existing bonds because they are buying them back quickly.

After the 0-4 start, we could of gave up but we didn't. As a team we are bonding and starting to flow. We want our first victory on the road.

After tax and after inflation, your return on bonds will be negative.

After we grew up, we had families, we had full-time jobs. For many years, we were all too busy to do much reading, or to do much of anything, really, for ourselves. The strong bond between us is our love of reading and talking!

A gain of stocks is encouraging for investors. I think bonds will probably stay strong.

It's negative for the bond market because you have a stronger (economic) growth rate.

Liz Miller

It's really been surprising, ... that in the early part of the year, the stock market was able to shrug off some of the interest rate moves on the bond market. Clearly that's no longer the case. ... We've had some great winners for years and the tough thing is to tell investors it's time to step away from some of those. Those rich valuations are now at risk.