Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BOND DISCOUNT - The difference by which a bond's market price is lower than its face value. The antithe...
  
  
• BOND EQUIVALENT YIELD - An annual yield, expressed as a percentage, describing the return provided to b...
  
  
• BOND FUND - Bond mutual funds invest in bonds to produce income. Unlike individual bonds, bond funds ha...
  
  
• BOND FUND (TAX-EXEMPT) - A portfolio of municipal bonds sponsored by registered investment companies th...
  
  
• BOND FUNDS - Are mutual funds that invest in credit instruments. There can be distinctions, such as, tr...
  
  
• BOND INDENTURE - A document that sets forth the terms of a bond issue, the obligations of a bond issuer...
  
  
• BOND INDEXING - Designing a bond portfolio so that its performance will match the performance of some b...
  
  
• BOND INSURANCE - A financial guaranty insurance policy provided by a well-capitalized, rated (claims pa...
  
  
• BOND MARKET - Usually refers to the daily buying and selling of thirty year treasury bonds. Lenders fol...
  
  
• BOND MARKET ASSOCIATION - An international trade association of broker/dealers and banks in US governme...