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Bonds — Tax Considerations For Investors
One reason stocks are more popular than bonds is that the latter are more complicated. Ironic, considering their risk and returns bonds are easier to judge and predict with confidence.
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Few investments offer as objective an estimate of risk as bonds. Because of some fixed characteristics - par (face value, repaid at maturity), coupon (interest rate, percentage paid in semi-annual payments on the par) and maturity (date principal is repaid) - predicting bond values and risk with some confidence is as much science as art.
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Every bond carries some risk that the issuer will default on repayment of the principal or suspend interest payments. Once that risk is measured (see 'Measuring Risk' elsewhere in this series), then what?
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'Junk' bonds - more politely known as high-yield bonds - acquired the name as a consequence of their low rating by the major agencies and their high rate of default. 'Default' is the failure to repay principal and/or suspension of interest payments.
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Fitch Rates Hawaii County, HI's $50MM GO Bonds 'A+' - PR Inside
Fitch assigns an 'A+' rating to Hawaii County (the county), HI's $50 million general obligation (GO) bonds, 2008 Series A and also affirms the 'A+' rating on $293 million in outstanding parity bonds. The new issue will be sold via negotiation on Nov
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CORRECTED-Colonial shareholders back 1.4 bln bonds issue - Forbes
BARCELONA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Shareholders in heavily-indebted Spanish property company Colonial on Friday approved a 1.43 billion euro ($1.79 billion) convertible bond issue to be underwritten by creditors and large shareholders, a spokesman said
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UPDATE 1-US commercial mortgage bonds get respite - Reuters
NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Yield spread premiums on a commercial mortgage-backed securities index narrowed on Friday for the first day in at least a week as traders reversed some bearish bets that defaults on office and retail property loans will
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U.S. inflation bonds hit by deflation, may recover - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Inflation-indexed bonds, for more than a decade the government bond market's hands-down outperformer, are taking their worst-ever beating as deflation starts to take hold. Falling oil prices and the credit crisis have swept away
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks rebound on rate cut hopes; oil rises - Reuters
LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) - World stocks rebounded from a 5-1/2 year low on Friday and oil rose above $50 as expectations of further interest rate cuts helped to cushion deepening gloom about the broader economy. Wall Street was set for a firmer start
