1.   Such position-taking obviously involves risks and if expectations were incorrect and bond prices rise rather than fall then market makers with short positions will incur losses.

2.   Banks, which often decline as bonds yields rise, were expected to pace the retreat.

3.   Bond yields fall as bond prices rise.

4.   Bonds rise as optimism grows for balanced budget agreement.

5.   Chilean shares were mixed, as concern mounted that shares that trade abroad may lose ground as U.S. bond yields rise and stocks fall.

6.   Computer shares led the advance, offsetting a drop in telephone shares, whose dividends look less attractive as bond yields rise.

7.   Even ahead of European union, Danish bonds have sunk in value as safer German bonds rise.

8.   Gains in Brady prices were more a mechanical reaction to U.S. bond rises than a demonstration of greater confidence in emerging market debt, he said.

9.   Interest payments on inflation-indexed bonds rise and fall based on an inflation measure, such as the consumer price index.

10.   Interest payments on inflation-indexed bonds rise and fall based on changes in the consumer price index.