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When a government or corporation issues a bond, it does so with a specific par value and interest rate. Once in the market, those values don’t change; however, the value of a bond can change depending ...

The accrued market discount is the expected gain to be earned on a discount bond by holding it up until maturity, whereupon it should rise to its face value. This gives investors potential gains.

Savings bonds, issued by the U.S. Treasury, represent a safe and secure long-term investment. Each bond's value is influenced by its series (E, EE, I, or others), denomination, and issue date. The ...

The carrying value of a bond refers to its face value, plus any unamortized premiums or minus any unamortized discounts. We can quickly calculate a bond's carrying value with only a few pieces of ...

A municipal bond’s embedded call option allows the issuer of the bond to “call” (i.e., pay back) the debt at a date prior to the bond’s final maturity, which allows the issuer to reduce the cost of ...

Most investors reach for a broad, market-value-weighted bond fund to fill the bond portion of their portfolio. While no weighting approach is perfect, market-value weighting often provides the most ...

It shows the fuzzy price interval of bond prices with climate risks, which corresponds to the membership function u and the price interval. It can be seen that due to the existence of fuzzy ...