31.   Corporate bonds are another vehicle for adding yield to a bond portfolio.

32.   Dean Poritzky, who most recently managed bond portfolios for retirement plans at Fidelity, joined State Street Research and Management as vice president, portfolio manager.

33.   Day said he has pared his stock holdings and added to his bond portfolio.

34.   Do we need a bond portfolio?

35.   Falling bonds means higher borrowing costs and lower investment income, particularly for financial companies which typically hold large bond portfolios.

36.   Falling bonds tend to pull down banks and insurers as the value of their large bond portfolios shrink.

37.   Financial companies benefit from stronger bonds because it increases the value of their large bond portfolios.

38.   Financial companies often hold large bond portfolios, which gain in value when yields fall.

39.   Financial companies tend to move with bonds because they hold large bond portfolios.

40.   Financial institutions, which tend to hold large bond portfolios, contributed to the decline amid a drop in French government bonds.