Bonds News

[at MarketWatch] - The Treasury Department said it plans to sell $67 billion in notes and bonds next week, including $21 billion in benchmark 10-year Treasurys. The U.S. government said it will also auction $33 billion in 3-year notes and $13 billion in 30-year bonds.

After ending last week with a sell-off of Treasurys, investors swung back to U.S. government bonds Monday when a move by the Bank of Japan reignited jitters about the global economy.

Neuberger Berman CEO George Walker says high-yield bonds still have room to go.

* BOJ begins emergency meeting to ease monetary policy * Nikkei up 3 pct; short-covering, shift out of bonds helps * JGBs tumble, yield curve steepens sharply

Playing the Yield on Stocks There is a reason why the yield on five-year government bonds is well below that available on stocks in many European countries and the U.S.

Friday 19.40 BST. Investors are ending the week feeling better about stocks and are less keen on government bonds, but the moves on Friday are classic signs of tired markets squaring the ledger ahead of the weekend.

Growing fears about the outlook for the US economy sent nervous investors scrambling for the perceived safety of government bonds and the yen for most of this week as equities and commodities racked up hefty losses.

Retail investors are resisting the siren call of bullish Wall Street equity analysts and high dividend paying stocks as they keep pumping money into bonds, contributing to the lowest stock trading volumes for August in more than a decade.

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Treasury extend a decline after Fed Chairman Bernanke discusses no triggers for further purchases of bonds.

Income investors are being advised to steer clear of bond funds and instead consider infrastructure, property and equity income funds, as yields on government bonds slide.

* Global equity funds see outflows of $7 bln * Bonds still popular but pace of inflows slowing * Emerging market bonds have 13th week of inflows

For those who fear stocks and bonds, take a look at closed-end funds, said Maury Fertig, CIO of Relative Value Partners.

* Repayments exceed issuance in July, Treasury says * Share of inflation-linked debt rises BRASILIA, Aug 19 - Brazil s stock of Treasury notes and bonds in circulation fell in July after repayments exceeded new debt issuance by 19.4 billion reais , the National Treasury said on Thursday.

U.S. stocks trimmed losses on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it would begin channeling proceeds from its maturing mortgage bonds into longer-term government debt in an effort to support a flagging economic recovery.

Acer Seeks $500 Million Taiwanese personal computer manufacturer Acer is looking to raise $500 million through a mix of five-year and seven-year convertible bonds.

*Japanese foreign bond buying about $130 bln over 12 weeks *Smaller Japanese banks now buying U.S. Treasuries *Japanese favouring 5-year U.S. bonds

The Treasury Department will auction $74 billion in notes and bonds next week in its quarterly refunding auctions, the government said Wednesday.