Government bonds are debt securities issued by a government to support its spending and obligations. Investors who buy these bonds are, in essence, lending money to the government. In return, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Series EE savings bonds stop earning interest after 30 years. You can cash in a Series EE bond after one year. The method for checking your bond’s value depends on if it is electronic or paper. When ...

When a bond has an interest rate that's higher than prevailing rates in the bond market, it will typically trade at a price higher than its face value. Such a bond is said to trade at a premium, and ...

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If you’re an equity investor, you buy stocks at the current market price and hope they appreciate. For debt investors, it’s the opposite concept. Investors buy bonds based on their face value: the ...