(n.) League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.
(n.) An embankment against inundation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay In 2008, a group of Shanghai urban planning academics and advisers, led by the respected preservationist Professor Ruan Yisan (responsible for championing the Bund restoration), proposed to local authorities to preserve 111 historically significant shikumen neighbourhoods.
(2) He expects total outflows of about €800m, including conversions into German bunds [bonds] and other such things."
(3) The propose analysed the main percentages be bunded in Literature.
(4) But the deal's deliberate opaqueness, mixed with uncertainly over how long it would take for the money to be paid out, saw spreads soar again this week, with the difference in yields between Greek and benchmark German 10-year bunds increasing to about 4.15% yesterday.
(5) 9.04pm BST 60 min: There's plenty of tiki taka on display, but it's all coming from Bayern, who triangluate beautifully down the right, their supporters indulging in some loud bundes¡olé!
(6) Money also flowed into German government debt, a classic safe haven, driving down the yield on bunds.
(7) This narrowed the spread between 10-year gilts and Bunds - a barometer of investor sentiment - to 92 basis points from 96 basis points yesterday.
(8) Behind us was the Bund, the waterfront of aristocratic Italian Renaissance and art deco buildings that sprang up at the start of the 20th century, the last commercial frenzy in the city.
(9) The yield on German 10-year bunds fell to a new low of 0.718% as investors abandoned shares for the relative safety of government bonds.
(10) "With any luck we will start to see those Bund spreads coming down over the next few months and that should improve prospects for growth," she said.
(11) It estimates that if yields could fall back relative to German government bonds - also know as Bunds - to a spread last seen in January it would improve Greece's large deficit by 0.9% of GDP and also significantly boost growth.
(12) 12 Shortly you will come to a path running along the Bund on your right.
(13) Government costs of borrowing : German government Bunds rally - making it cheaper for Germany to borrow as investors seek a safe haven.
(14) On Monday, as the euro fell on the foreign exchanges, the Greek stock market plunged and investors piled into the safe haven of German bunds, it no longer seems quite so far-fetched.
(15) Britain's total personal, corporate and government debt is substantially worse than Italy's, but the bond markets now freakishly rate London a safe haven, with the interest rate on gilts falling to 2.1%, just a smidgen over German bunds.
(16) More here : German Oct trade surplus narrows, gives euro zone cheer 8.15am GMT Chinese trade surplus hits five-year high A tourist with a protective mask watches the buildings at the Bund under heavy haze in Shanghai, China, this morning.
(17) At 9am there were a few hundred students near the Bund, Shanghai's river-front, several thousand more in People's Square and hundreds more here and there throughout the downtown area.
(18) Spain's main Ibex 35 stock index rallied on the report, up 1.6% by lunchtime, while the spread between Spanish government bonds and their equivalent German Bunds narrowed.
(19) The world has been sorely disappointed," said Hubert Weiger, head of Germany's association for environment and nature protection, Bund.
(20) • US 10-year Treasury yield: 2.88%, down from 2.97% overnight • UK 10-year gilt yield : 2.93%, down from 3% overnight • German 10-year bund yield : 1.94%, down from 2.04% overnight Updated at 2.02pm BST 1.55pm BST Economics professor Nouriel Roubini insists today's jobs data means the US Fed should not slow its stimulus programme yet: Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Q2 growth is 1.9% ex inv.
Bunn
Definition:
(n.) A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.
(n.) See Bun.
Example Sentences:
(1) 3.51pm BST Manchester City have sent young striker Harry Bunn out on loan to Sheffield United, while Plymouth have made a Reckord signing .
(2) Capital One Cup: QPR lose to Carlisle and Watford lose to Preston Read more The beating of Huddersfield Town away in the first round was proof the new-look Magpies had the capacity to embarrass higher division opposition though, and a similar upset looked to be on the cards when Genaro Snijders’ long-range shot took a deflection that looped past the wrong-footed Villa goalkeeper Mark Bunn in the 16th minute.
(4) The process is biphasic, as reported elsewhere [Bunn, Wohl, Bradley, Cooley & Gibson (1974) J. Biol.
(5) Those who thought County would fold, however, were quickly disabused of the notion by Burke, who received the ball on the right touchline in the 56th minute, turned and curled a glorious left-footed shot beyond the desperately reaching Bunn .
(6) His injury-time shot came back off the crossbar, hit the Villa goalkeeper, Mark Bunn, and went in for an own goal instead.
(7) He was less adept just before the interval, running out to try and push away an underhit backpass and succeeding only in bringing down McLeod: having given the penalty, it was hard to understand why the referee, Chris Kavanagh, did not send Bunn off.
(8) Tottenham P22 Pts39 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Villa’s Mark Bunn saves a penalty from Mahrez.
(9) Rachana Bunn, who works for ActionAid Cambodia on their safe cities for women campaign, designed Safe Agent 008, a messaging system that sends women’s GPS coordinates to family and friends when they feel in danger and allows them to report violence anonymously.
(10) Villa keeper Mark Bunn’s save spurs the home side to a mini-revival, with Rudy Gestede scoring a deserved equaliser 15 minutes from time.
(11) County’s goalkeeper, 37, again thwarted Sinclair, this time with his left foot, while at the other end Bunn had to dive to his right to palm away Graham Burke’s attempted curler.
(12) The following commercially available nebulizers were tested: DeVilbiss Nebulizer Model 645, Hudson 1720 (Updraft) Hand Held Nebulizer, Bard Inspiron 002220 Mini-Neb Nebulizer, and Bunn Mini Mist Set model 0140-041.
(13) Dissociation of alpha beta and alpha gamma dimers of human hemoglobins (Hb) A and F into monomers was studied by alpha chain exchange (Shaeffer, J. R., McDonald, M. J., Turci, S. M., Dinda, D. M., and Bunn, H. F. (1984) J. Biol.
(14) The pathway of anaerobic acetone degradation by the denitrifying bacterial strain BunN was studied by enzyme measurements in extracts of anaerobic acetone-grown cells.
(15) "If dispersed by terrorists it could make a very nasty dirty bomb capable of contaminating a wide area," said Bunn, an associate professor at Harvard University's John F Kennedy school of government, who compiles an annual assessment of the nuclear terrorism threat titled Securing the Bomb.
(16) Told of the cable's revelation of the type of materials and the amount stored in Yemen's NAEC facility, Matthew Bunn, a former White House science adviser who specialises in nuclear threat and terrorism, said: "Holy cow.
(17) The visitors’ misery was compounded by the late dismissal of the substitute Reza Ghoochannejhad for two yellow cards in the space of just over a minute following reckless tackles on Davidson and Harry Bunn.
(18) The physiology of anaerobic acetone degradation was studied with strain BunN, which was originally enriched with butanone.
(19) Subs: Elmander, Snodgrass, Bunn, Hoolahan, Becchio, Olsson, Ryan Bennett.
(20) It appears that the Tyr replaced by Asp substitution resembles the Tyr replaced by His substitution in hemoglobin Bethesda (Bunn, H. F. et al.