Have you heard about RTB investments in the Philippines? These are Retail Treasury Bonds (RTB) offered by the government of the Philippines. Did you know … Read More
This is now Part 3 of our series on How to Invest in Bonds. In Part 1, you learned what bonds are while in Part … Read More
In the first article in our Bond Investment Guide series “What are Bonds?” you’ve learned what bonds are, how they differ from stocks, and some jargons associated with bond investing.
Here in Part 2, you will learn how you can make money from bonds.
Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) downgraded to “negative” today its outlook on the United States sovereign debt, citing the risk that the government will be unable to curb rising debt and the growing deficit.
According to the New York-based credit rating agency:
Because the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers, what we consider to be very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness, and the path to addressing these is not clear to us, we have revised our outlook on the long-term rating to negative from stable.
