61.   Some are dismissing traders, and many are dumping bond holdings and asking themselves what went wrong.

62.   Still, a seesawing of bond yields and interest rates in the past week led some investors to adjust their mortgage bond holdings.

63.   Tanimoto said Sumitomo will continue to expand its foreign bond holdings, focusing on U.S. Treasuries.

64.   That dragged down insurance stocks, whose large bond holdings are affected by changes in interest rates.

65.   Tame inflation is particularly good for banks because it means the fixed payments on their massive bond holdings will lose less value over time.

66.   The bond holdings of financial companies benefit when yields decline.

67.   The central bank does not disclose its total U.S. bond holdings.

68.   The firm had also sold Treasury securities it did not own in the belief these prices would fall as also as a hedge for its non-Treasury bond holdings.

69.   The lesson for investors is to evaluate closed-end bond holdings closely.

70.   The problem with collapsing Japanese share prices is that it could force Japanese banks to sell domestic and international bond holdings to compensate for stockmarket losses.