51. They are supposed to provide interest and principal payments in a predictable manner, but rising interest rates this year have eroded the value of mortgage securities. 52. They claim the bank, for many years, violated California law requiring it to return unclaimed interest and principal payments back to the issuer or to the state. 53. To insure that investors get timely interest and principal payments should delinquencies occur, issuers back the bonds with as much as five times potential loan losses. 54. Underwriters report that many of the bonds are insured to protect interest and principal payments. 55. Wisconsin may launch a more detailed investigation into the origin of the securities if investors fail to receive their principal payments due next week, Hoadley said. 56. Yields typically rise and fall to reflect forecasts for inflation, which eats into the purchasing power of bond interest and principal payments. 57. You might return the principal payments to other investments, such as savings or CD accounts, or reinvest them in shares of additional unit investment trusts. 58. Algeria stopped paying principal payments on its commercial bank debt more than a year ago amid an economic crisis linked in part to an insurgency by Muslim militants. 59. Although the banks are allowed to freely set the overnight rates, BI will only guarantee principal payments and interest rates at the ceiling. 60. It did not specify a date for the resumption of principal payments. |