We haven’t yet faced the sticky widespread problem of negative interest rates among conventional U.S. Treasury bonds that has beleaguered wide swaths of the global bond market (although some Treasury ...

Bond investors have quite a few investment options at their disposal. They can choose between different types of bonds: Treasury, corporate, high yield, emerging markets, and municipals. They have ...

Notes are often a key component of how a business finances its operations. For purposes of accounting, it's important to be able to calculate the maturity value of a note to know how much a business ...

In “How Does the Fed Control Interest Rates in a Free Market?” we wrote: Unlike stocks, each bond contract has unique characteristics that define how repayment will occur. Every bond contract has at ...

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