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| May 2006 By John Schroy, on July 30th, 2006 |  Leave a comment  According to statistics published by the Bond Market Association, based on Thomson Financial Securities Data, corporate bond issues for the first five months of 2006, totaled $339 billion. This was an 18.3% increase over the same period in 2005. High rates of new supplies of corporate bonds have exerted pressure on interest rates in the first half of 2006. July 30th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Bonds, Interest Rates | Category: US Bonds | Leave a comment |  Short urlUS Trade Deficit 2006 By John Schroy, on July 30th, 2006 | Leave a comment  According to a US Bureau of Economic Analysis release of July 12, 2006, the US trade deficit leveled off during 2006, with a difference between imports and exports of goods and services of $63.8 billion in May 2006. Since the trade deficit is a major source of funds for the US bond market, a slowing of the rate of growth of the deficit will effect interest rates. July 30th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Bonds, Interest Rates, International Economics | Category: US Trade Deficit | Leave a comment | Short urlQuestionable SIPC Guarantees? By John Schroy, on July 24th, 2006 | One comment  Millions have brokerage accounts with SIPC protection and think this means they have government insurance of up to $500,000 on securities in custody with a broker-dealer, plus $100,000 on cash balances — similar to the FDIC guarantee on bank accounts. In this, millions of investors are mistaken. July 24th, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: business continuity plans, Comptroller of the Currency, FDIC, Federal Reserve Bank, Lehman Brothers, NASD, New York City, New York Times, NYSE, SIPC, US SEC | Category: Financial Market Regulator | One comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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