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I once cashed out a bunch of savings bonds in the middle of the year and forgot about them. Then I got a nice little love note from the IRS saying they'd corrected my return.

If U.S. bonds seem rich to global (mainly Asian) investors in currency terms as the dollar appreciates, they will take profits on the appreciated assets.

If you had a scheduled investment program that included buying I Bonds every month, I wouldn't change it at this point. That's a sensible investment plan for the low-risk part of your portfolio, and you should stick with it.

Kenneth Fisher

If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.

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.

Larry Wachtel

The key this morning is the 10-year note hovering around a yield of 5%. This news trumps any economic or earnings data. It's a rate-driven market, even with oil competing for headlines. Any weakness we may see will be due to these bond yields.

The message that seeped out was that he does think that they've pretty much done enough to bring the economy in for a soft landing, and that really is an ideal world for equities. While it was disguised, it certainly was a very bullish message for both bonds and stocks,

Janet Reno

The issue is a father who wants his son home and grandparents who want their grandson home, and these are bonds that should be honored,

The inversion is not a positive for mortgage bonds and is one of main things on people's minds right now.

The ISM manufacturing number was really stronger than expected. Obviously we've seen a sell-off in the U.S. bond market. As a result of this, people are calling for one or two more Fed moves.

The Fed is going to be the key driver for the stock market next week. But additionally, the driver will be the bond market reaction to the Fed and what that implies for interest rates going forward.

The Fed sounded optimistic about growth, but its view that the risks of inflation and inflation expectations were reduced is the hallmark buy signal for the back end (of the bond curve),

Chris Edwards

The federal government doesn't have the money. The rebuilding money should come from state and local budgets. States should issue bonds for long-term investments for freeways and the like. ... They should look at innovative private financing mechanisms.

The Fed Chairman would be very happy if the bond market did some of the tightening for him,

The core PCE price index is a calming influence on the bond market. Inflation so far has far not gotten out of hand.

The core PCE price index is a calming influence on the bond market, ... Inflation so far has far not gotten out of hand.

The core number (which excludes the volatile food and energy sectors) is expected to (gain) 0.2 percent, which would be good and I think that would give the market a further sign of relief and could give the bond market a boost.

Daniel Craig

I'm not shy and Bond wouldn't be shy about it either.

Laurence Maroney

I'm going to really miss the team; the bond I have with these players is so close. I'm going to miss the coaches because they've always been there for me. ... And really gave me a chance to show my skills at an early age.

Bill Gross

I like bonds better than I did a few weeks ago.

Inflation is still relatively benign. Yields are down, which is helping. People are getting out of bonds and probably putting some money to work in equities.

Inflation is creeping up, but it's not out of hand. I think that's pretty important. The bond market may have discounted a worst-case scenario over the last couple of months on inflation, and now maybe traders won't have to worry about the Fed moving too fast.

Inflation gains remain modest but they are gains. This suggests that interest rates will continue to rise as the Fed raises rates at the short end and bond traders discount trend growth and higher inflation at the long end.

Michael Thomas

Inflation fears are still around. Bonds will be on the back foot and stay under pressure.