11. Higher inflation or interest rates can hurt bonds by making their fixed-income return less attractive. 12. Their appetite for equities is growing because of declining fixed-income returns and spectacular stock market returns. 13. Slow inflation is good for bond investors, since inflation eats into a bond's fixed income return . 14. Brazilians'appetite for stocks has grown because of declining fixed-income returns and the spectacular stock market returns. 15. Inflation erodes the value of bonds'fixed-income returns . 16. Low income returns to farmers are experienced when low prices are offered though shipping and marketing agents. 17. It seems I should be more concerned with the potential spread between fixed income returns and interest rates. 18. Inflation diminishes the value of a bond's fixed-income return and decreases the chance of an interest rate cut. 19. The bund market thrives in periods of slow economic growth, since inflation diminishes the value of bonds'fixed-income returns . 20. Fast economic growth fuels concerns inflation also will accelerate and eat into the fixed income return on bonds.