Grant's Interest Rate Observer April 4th issue is released

NEW YORK, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The April 4th issue of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a journal of the financial markets, is published and available to the public. This issue is now available for download at www.grantspub.com for all subscribers. To subscribe please visit: http://www.grantspub.com/subscribe or call John D'Alberto: (646) 312-8890.

The current issue includes the following articles:

Killing them with kindness

Janet Yellen has already secured her legacy as the most empathetic chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve. Her remarkable speech in Chicago on Monday can be read as nothing less than an indictment of the institution of price discovery.

Yield to worst

"The food is terrible," to quote the famously ambivalent restaurant review—"and the portions are so small." Much the same can be said of today's junk-bond market. The yields are terrible—and there's not enough new supply to satisfy the clamoring demand. On the art of selling what you don't even own.

Somewhat efficient

On March 25, Facebook Inc. agreed to buy Oculus VR, a private, development-stage maker of virtual-reality goggles, for $400 million in cash and $1.6 billion in stock. Oculus had a very good day—as did one homonymic other.

Banking on India

On average, the Indian stock market is neither cheap nor dear. The heart of the investment narrative is rather revealed in the investment peaks and valleys—one fertile and ill-favored valley in particular.

Borrowing way too well

Expressed as a percentage of world output, borrowings of governments the world over jumped to 79% in 2013 up from 62% in 2007, according to the IMF. And what did the sovereigns get for their money?

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