US Savings Bond A US savings bond is a security issued by the US treasury and began being issued during president Roosevelt’s presidency in 1935. A month after the president sign the legislation‚ the first savings bond was issued with a purchase price of 18.75‚ but a face value of $25. These first bonds were eventually nicknamed “the baby bonds”. When bonds first became big was during the US’s involvement with WWII in 1941. These bond were called the Series E Defense bonds and they went towards
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The characteristic of a convertible bond The convertible bond is one kind of equity-linked bonds. The term of the bond entitles bondholder to convert bonds into shares of the company or another company in the same group‚ at an agreed-upon conversion price‚ among a fixed period. The reason why it is made in this form is that the issuer can benefit from four aspects as follow‚ (1) better terms. A convertible bond have a lower interest rate‚ less restrictive covenants or the subordination of bondholders’
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A chemical bond is an attraction between atoms that allows the formation of chemical substances that contain two or more atoms. The bond is caused by the electromagnetic force attraction between opposite charges‚ either between electrons and nuclei‚ or as the result of a dipole attraction. The strength of chemical bonds varies considerably; there are "strong bonds" such as covalent or ionic bonds and "weak bonds" such as dipole-dipole interactions‚ the London dispersion force and hydrogen bonding
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In the financial markets‚ the most common forms of marketable securities are stocks and bonds. Though they have some similarities to each other‚ they differ greatly in many aspects. Broadly speaking‚ both financial instruments enable one to invest in corporations‚ public and/or private‚ with possible profitable returns in the future. Stocks (or shares)‚ by definition‚ are shares of ownership in a company. By purchasing stocks in a company‚ the investor becomes a part owner‚ and thereby owns a percentage
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Journal of Banking & Finance 36 (2012) 2216–2232 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Journal of Banking & Finance journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbf Are corporate bond market returns predictable? Yongmiao Hong a‚b‚ Hai Lin c‚d‚ Chunchi Wu e‚⇑ a Department of Economics‚ Cornell University‚ Ithaca‚ NY 14853‚ USA Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics and MOE Key Laboratory in Econometrics‚ Xiamen University‚ Xiamen 361005‚ China c Department of Accountancy
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Chapter 6 Bond Valuation 6.5 Duration and Convexity Problem Given a 4-yr treasury bond with a face value of $1‚000‚ an annual coupon rate of 3.20%‚ which had a yield to maturity of 2.53%‚ this bond makes 2 semi-annual coupon payments. Thus has 8 periods until maturity and we are required to determine what the duration‚ modified duration‚ and convexity of this bond is‚ based on the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) and the Effective Annual Rate (EAR). Also‚ we are asked to explain an intuitive interpretation
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Introduction to Bond Market A financial market place where debt instruments‚ primarily bonds‚ are bought and sold is called a bond market. The dealings in a bond market are limited to a small group of participants. Contrary to stock or commodities trading‚ the bond market (also known as the debt market) lacks a central exchange. The bond market (also known as the credit‚ or fixed income market) is a financial market where participants can issue new debt‚ known as the primary market‚ or buy and
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(5 - 9) Bond Valuation and Interest Rate Risk Bond L Bond S INS = $100 INS = $100 M = $1‚000 M = $1‚000 N = 15 Years N = 1 Year a) 1) rd = 5% VBL = INT/ (1 + rd)t + M/ (1 + rd)N =INT [1/rd – 1/ rd(1 + rd)N ] + M/ (1 + rd)N =$100 [1/0.05 – 1/ 0.05(1 + 0.05)15] + $1‚000/ (1 + 0.05)15 =$1040 + $480.77 = $1518.98 VBS = INT/ (1 + rd)t + M/ (1 + rd)N
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Bond Case Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle Insurance Company and co-directors of the company’s pension fund management division. An important new client‚ The North-Western Municipal Alliance‚ has requested that Mutual of Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities‚ and Strother and Tibbs‚ who will make the actual presentation‚ have asked you to help them by answering the following questions. What are the key features of a
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OF IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND- WITH REFERENCE TO ‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’. From Russia‚ with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming ’s James Bond series‚ first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 8 April 1957. As with the first four books‚ From Russia‚ with Love was generally well received by the critics. The story was written at Fleming ’s Golden eye estate in Jamaica in early 1956. By the time the book was published‚ he did not know whether he wanted to write another Bond book or not. The story
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