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<font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Spread betting and contracts for differences on US bonds should consider that covered bonds are getting some play in the States. Covered bonds are being pushed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as a way to help the mortgage market.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are covered bonds?</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Covered bonds are an interesting financial instrument. </span><a href="http://www.nationalmortgagenews.com/premium/archive/?ts=1217260810" target="_blank" title="covered bonds, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets bond market, spread betting US bonds, Henry Paulson, mortgage market" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">National Mortgage News offers this definition of covered bonds</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">:</span><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /></font><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-style: italic;">A covered bond is a debt instrument backed by a specific pool of mortgages. The underlying collateral is held on the balance sheet of the institution issuing the security.</span><br /></font></div><font size="2"><br style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">With more </span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121727042664390535.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business" target="_blank" title="covered bonds, spread bets, CFDs, spread betting, contracts for differences, spread bets bond market, spread betting US bonds, Henry Paulson, mortgage market" style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">banks getting on board with the covered bonds programme</a><span style="font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, it may make for an interesting subject of investment or spread bets.</span></font><br /> 9 application/xml false CFDs contracts for differences covered bonds Henry Paulson mortgage market spread bets spread bets bond market spread betting spread betting US bonds Spread bets on the bond market http://www.gftuk.com/land/index.asp?aid=53 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 24.105.205.107 false true false false true 133535 blog blogsite/GFTUK/web