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Price quotation for a security expressed in terms of yield to maturity. This will usually only be quoted on fixed-income securities such as bonds.
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A term describing a bond whose price is below the face value or principal value, usually $1,000. As bond prices are quoted as a percentage of face value, a[阅读全文:]
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A yield-rate environment in which short-term interest rates are increasing at a faster rate than long-term interest rates. This causes the yield curve to f[阅读全文:]
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A bond that provides a standard against which the performance of other bonds can be measured. Government bonds are almost always used as benchmark bonds. A[阅读全文:]
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A widening of the yield curve caused by long-term rates increasing at a faster rate then short-term rates. This causes a larger spread between the two rate[阅读全文:]
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When the sale of a mortgage in the secondary mortgage market requires that the seller, usually a mortgage originator, make a "best efforts" attempt to de[阅读全文:]
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A fixed-income instrument that is owned by whoever is holding it, rather than having a registered owner.
Coupons representing interest payments ar[阅读全文:]
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A unit that is equal to 1/100th of 1%, and is used to denote the change in a financial instrument. The basis point is commonly used for calculating changes[阅读全文:]
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A debt security issued by the Resolution Funding Corporation to bail out the savings and loan associations during the financial crisis of the late 1980s an[阅读全文:]
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An increased coupon rate on the longer term maturity instruments within a serial bond issue. In a serial issue, bonds mature at different intervals, creati[阅读全文:]