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I'll let myself being used as an economic student / guinea pig... But only for this post, because I'm poised to leave.

Bloody linguistic terms. It's still rather opaque to me - One buys to realise a profit? I do see how the principle works, yet when does the actual return set in? When do you "sell" bonds to realise the profit in actual numbers on your bank account? Or is the buying the selling? *confused *

And (once again): (how) does the bond market affect the stock market?

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Tue Jun 19th, 2007 at 11:39:23 AM EST
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