Monday July 18, 2011
I just received a god inquiry from a student about the bond market. As he said, the textbook assumes that one knows a good bit about bonds. So here are a few suggestions regarding free on line sources to read.
The bond Book This is an excerpt from Google Books
The Wall Street Journal
go to http://www.wsj.com
Click on Markets
Click on Bonds
I suspect that same URL comes up every day so you could just book mark it. But reading every day will help you understand more about the market. And European Sovereign Bonds, issued by countries are very much in the news every day as you will notice.
Finance.yahoo
Go to News, then Markets, then Bonds for a list of current stories
Marketwatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/markets
This displays a nice list of headlines, then you can click on bonds for daily updates
Bloomberg
cut to the chase and click here
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/bonds/
There is a wealth of information out there, one has to take advantage of it!
Professor Elam 
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