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Bonds

British  
/ bɒndz /

noun

  1. Barry ( Lamar ). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)

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Bonds, on the other hand, are affected more directly by inflation, interest rates and government borrowing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

Bonds are bonds, of course, with fixed coupons, while loans’ payouts float with interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Bonds, by contrast, have returned just 1.7% a year during that time frame, and are only just recovering from the annus horribilis of 2022, when they lost 13%, on average.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Customers include more than 22 million Premium Bonds holders, who stand to win money from a monthly prize draw.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Bonds backed by floating-rate mortgages received higher ratings than bonds backed by fixed-rate ones—which was why the percentage of subprime mortgages with floating rates had risen, in the past five years, from 40 to 80.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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