Dutch bond

Yields on Dutch bonds were up 0.11 of a percent higher than they were before the weekend.

Dutch bond was used for laying bricks to build Fort Zeelandia.

-- I kept the four millions and a half in Dutch bonds in a secretaire for a week.

The premium investors demand to hold Dutch bonds rather than German benchmarks surged to its highest in three years.

He was sufficiently interested to visit Amsterdam, where he obtained an option to buy the Dutch bonds at a third of their nominal value.

The tightening of the 2-10 year yield spread by around 3 basis points on Monday bode well for the Dutch bond sale. '

Financial markets have so far taken the Dutch crisis in their stride, with yields on Dutch bonds just 0.11 percent higher than they were before the weekend.

Ultimately, the DSTA wants to increase the liquidity and tradability of Dutch bonds, he said.

After the 4 billion euros tap, the DSL has 12.41 billion euros outstanding which is close to the highest among Dutch bonds.

In Dutch bond, all quoins are three-quarter bats-placed in alternately stretching and heading orientation with successive courses-and no use whatever is made of queen closers.

The Flemish bond brickwork, also known as Dutch bond, makes a distinctive checkerboard pattern that is visible on the first and second floors of the façade.

Pensions & Investments recently cited a Dutch pension fund — which are pretty huge pools of money — tailoring an index that favours Dutch bonds.

MTS Amsterdam, in which the Dutch state has a 5 percent stake, currently is the only system to officially trade Dutch bonds, Wilders said.

Even triple-A rated Dutch bonds have underperformed German debt, pushing the 10-year Dutch/German spread to above 40 basis points. '

On top of this, carrying Dutch bonds as inventory has become more difficult for traders because of spread movements vis a vis German bonds,' Wilders said.

Ten-year Portuguese, French, Belgian, Greek, Spanish and Dutch bonds yielded the most over Bunds since at least 1999, when the euro was created, according to Reuters charts.

A Dutch bond sale went smoothly on Tuesday, calming financial markets but investors are waiting to see whether he can find new backers for the cuts and agree an election date with other political parties.

Dutch and peripheral euro zone bonds sold off, driving Spanish yields back above 6 percent and taking the spread of Dutch bonds over German benchmarks to the highest in three years.

But Arnold Salm, a director at major Dutch bond trader Wallich & Matthes, says the government is instead spending the money elsewhere, leaving debt issuance in 2009 likely no lower than previous years. '

In a worrying portent of contagion the spread of Austrian, French and Dutch bond yields over German Bunds also shot up, though to levels still well below those of Italy and Spain.

Strategists consider the Dutch bond attractive, with spreads in the two to three-year area of the Dutch curve still at relatively high levels despite the recent retightening of intra euro zone spreads over Bunds. '

The collapse of the Dutch governing coalition added to the sense of political uncertainty in Europe, and pushed the Dutch bond spread to German Bunds to a three-year high of 72bp, and the yield to 2.41 per cent.

One surprising finding was that estimated losses under severe conditions were lower at 2.3 percent of 33 Irish bond tranches and 4.5 percent of 19 Greek tranches than for Dutch bonds at 6.3 percent of 118 tranches.

The DSTA has set conditions for platforms including offering price quotes from at least one primary dealer of Dutch bonds, complying with MiFID regulations, and offering equal access to all primary dealers with a clear fee structure, Wilders said.

Negrin’s lawyer is also protesting the SEC’s authority to bring the case, according to Bloomberg (emphasis ours): Iason said the SEC lacks the legal authority to bring the case because the underlying Dutch bonds aren’t subject to the U.S. regulator’s oversight.