Here’s a chart from an article on Bloomberg today illustrating the yield curves of Japanese and German government bonds (the article is worth reading). You have to lend money for 9 years to Germany and more than 13 years to Japan if you want to earn a positive yield to maturity! Some 29% of developed-nation government…
Market & Portfolio Updates
I haven’t written on the blog in about two weeks because we’re in the middle of quarterly earnings. There is a 2 or 3 week stretch each quarter where I’m pretty busy listening to the earning’s conference calls of the companies we own as well as other companies I’m looking into. The good news is…