Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BOND RATIO - The percentage of a company's capitalization represented by bonds. The ratio is calculated...
  
  
• BOND REFERENDUM - see REFERENDUM.
  
  
• BOND SINKING FUND - a provision to repay a bond.
  
  
• BOND SWAP - In a bond swap, you buy one bond and sell another at the same time. You might do a swap for...
  
  
• BOND VALUE - With respect to convertible bonds, the value the security would have if it were not conver...
  
  
• BOND VALUE (FOR CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES) - See investment value (for convertible bonds).
  
  
• BOND YEAR OR FISCAL YEAR - The 12-month accounting period used in connection with an issue of bonds. Bo...
  
  
• BOND YEARS - The product of the number of bonds (1 bond equals $1,000, regardless of actual denominatio...
  
  
• BOND-EQUIVALENT BASIS - The method used for computing the bond-equivalent yield.
  
  
• BONDED - to: a. secure payment of duties and taxes on (goods) by giving a bond; or, b. convert into a d...