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- adjective chemistry, economics Resembling or characteristic of a
bond .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Eichen expects these funds to provide bondlike stability but with better returns.
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While the stock-market tie is a big part of the marketing pitch, the product is more bondlike than consumers may be led to believe by commission-hungry agents, critics say.
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She has bondlike assets of $188,000 and a bondlike liability of $400,000.
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She has bondlike assets of $188,000 and a bondlike liability of $400,000.
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Expect bondlike security but with greater profit potential.
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Expect bondlike security but with greater profit potential.
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The gap has been filled by "securitization": the complex bundling of mortgages, credit-card debt and other loans into bondlike instruments that are sold to all manner of investors (banks themselves, pension funds, hedge funds, insurance companies).
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"We used to invest in hedge funds because we got stocklike returns with bondlike volatility," Mr. Alford says.
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The derivatives Orange County favored are "" inverse floaters, '' bondlike creatures that pay less interest when money-market rates rise.
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Social Security payments are bondlike assets, too.
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