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FINANCE , *BOND prices , *BOND market , *GOVERNMENT securities , *CORPORATE bonds , *DIVIDEND yield , *SPREAD (Finance) - Abstract
The article examines government securities prices. Yields on U.S. Treasury bonds are at historic lows of less than one percent as investors have sought a safe haven during the financial crisis. Government securities yields have begun to rise in early 2009, however, as the spread between those rates and the returns offered by stock dividends and corporate bonds grew to levels of over 3 percent.
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- 2009