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Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of reporters with NPR's Planet Money used $1,000 of their own cash to buy a tiny piece of one — and plan to track it until it dies.

The issue, worth about $879 million, is a major step by Beijing to internationalize its currency at a time of concern about the dollar.

Wall Street bankers plan to buy life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash and package hundreds or thousands of them together into bonds.

China has agreed to buy $50 billion of the International Monetary Fund's first bond issue in a move that will help to strengthen the body's lending ability and diversify Beijing's foreign holdings.

Shares of diversified lender CIT Group Inc. plunged Monday morning as uncertainty mounts over whether it can get federal backing for its bonds.

Shares of commercial lender CIT are falling as uncertainty mounts over whether it can get federal backing for its bonds.

The bank kept its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 percent and stuck to its plan of buying bonds with newly printed money after recent data quashed earlier hopes of a recovery.

Fresh evidence of an improving economy pushed long-term Treasury yields higher on Thursday — a troubling sign for homeowners and those interested in buying a home.

Doubts about the economy are keeping demand for Treasurys alive.

Reversing its role as the world’s fastest-growing buyer of U.S. Treasuries and other foreign bonds, the Chinese government sold bonds heavily this winter.