51. All I am asking for is to put the bond investor on a par with the equity investor and management in terms of disclosure. 52. All that should be considered good news by bond investors. 53. All these factors would normally be worrying bond investors, said Robert V. DiClemente, the chief U.S. economist at Salomon Smith Barney. 54. But bond investors seem to think it likely that many overextended borrowers, countries and corporations alike, will not have enough revenue to meet their obligations. 55. But because the crisis has forced interest rates sky-high, bond investors are making money hand over fist. 56. But bond investors, always on the lookout for the ugly underbelly of financial news, fear that the Fed could go too far in lowering rates. 57. But company balance sheets, which bond investors care about, have become loaded with debt in recent years. 58. But even as stock investors celebrated, bond investors took up their worry beads. 59. But bond investors are another matter altogether. 60. But its situation deteriorated this year, as stock prices plunged and bond investors suffered their worst year in six years. |