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[bond] / bɒnd /






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And Brian Mulberry, chief market strategist at Zacks Investment Management, told MarketWatch that absorbing Chipotle would likely require hefty financing at a time when bond yields have risen sharply.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

They are moving cash to 2-year Treasurys, building ladders of Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and buying target-maturity bond funds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Treasury yields, which rise when bond prices fall, have been on a generally upward trend since March.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

If market interest rates go down, the issuer might call the bond, returning your principal plus interest to date.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Eventually they figured out that language served a different purpose inside the bond market than it did in the outside world.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

There is now less pressure on holders of those bonds to hedge their portfolios by entering into derivatives contracts with counterparties who often then offset their own position by dumping Treasurys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The selloff in bonds is even more pronounced in Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

With individual bonds, investors can generally look through those interim price fluctuations because they know the price the bonds will mature at, said Cooper Howard, director of fixed income research and strategy with Charles Schwab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Investors adjusted in ways that led to selling of longer-term Treasurys, including 10-year notes and 30-year bonds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

But of course Mike Burry didn’t own any triple-B-rated subprime mortgage bonds, or anything like them.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The two quickly bonded over a shared interest in math and trading, and teamed up with one of Harrington’s buddies from Princeton to launch Varrd, which trades in predictions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

They first met when they were 15, when Patryk's parents moved to England from Poland, and one of the first things they bonded over was the 1996 movie Loch Ness.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"The minute they met, first they bonded over football," he laughed.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

In Tbilisi, Ms. Goldberg and her friends bonded with an 11-year-old boy named Avi who, through complicated means, was already carrying on a correspondence with a Jewish boy in Philadelphia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Natalie and Shannon had met in homeroom last year at the beginning of sixth grade and had immediately bonded over their shared love of boba tea, K-pop, and extreme weather shows.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Hybrid bonding technology combines multiple materials and components at the microscopic level to create advanced semiconductor packages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The researchers hope their proposed explanation will ultimately give students a more consistent way to understand chemical bonding while providing scientists with a stronger conceptual basis for studying molecular structure and reactivity.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Workers failed to apply enough primer in some areas, preventing layers of the liner from bonding properly.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026

Conservationists are hopeful that two bonding beavers who were released into the wild earlier in 2026 could help to strengthen the population of the creatures.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

But she and Ivy had gotten even closer lately, bonding while the family changed into something new and also kind of scary.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake




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