Bonds sell at a value either at a premium, higher than their face value, or at a discount, below their face value.
Treasury
bonds sell at the narrowest spreads (less than 1/2 % or even less), no matter how many bonds or the direction of interest rates.
We have found these excellent times to find bargains in corporate bonds, as those who overpaid highly promoted and fashionable corporate
bonds sell at cheap prices.
Zero coupon
bonds sell at a substantial discount to their face amount because investors receive no income from them until maturity.
In a different environment, or for financially secure companies, is it ever a good idea to make a leveraged buy of higher yielding bonds, where
the bond sells at a discount and the coupon is greater than the margin interest rate?
For example,
a bond selling at par is worth the same dollar amount it was issued for or at which it will be redeemed at maturity.
For example, a $ 1 million
bond sells at a premium for $ 1.05 million to yield 10 percent semiannually, due in five years.
A bond selling at 66 has the potential of a 50 % capital gain versus no capital gains for a bond bought at 100.
Bond sold at a fraction of its face value.
Not exact matches
Most likely, the manager will be forced to
sell some
bonds, potentially
at a discount, as the fund needs to simply raise cash to meet redemptions.
At Thursday's auction of a 7.37 percent 2023
bond, the Reserve Bank of India was only able to
sell about 430 million rupees out of the 30 billion on offer into the market, with the remainder having to be bought by primary dealers.
(If I owned, for example, $ 1,000,000 of «AAA» - rated
bonds from a large US company I could very easily
sell them
at market price right now.
On Thursday, Argentina
sold $ 7 billion in five - year and 10 - year dollar
bonds in the international market
at interest rates of 5.625 percent and 7 percent.
The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of
bonds maturing in 30 years,
sold originally
at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.
It
sold the
bonds at high enough yields to receive orders for three times that amount.
Francesco Filia, chief executive
at Fasanara Capital, said that the recent
sell - off in
bonds and equities could be «an early warning signal of what is to come.»
«
At that time, even a 1 % annual rate of inflation between 2012 and 2017 would have decreased the purchasing - power of the government
bond» he
sold.
Sovereign
bonds will still prove popular for investors over the next two years and a sharp
sell - off in fixed income will fail to materialize, an economist
at UBS told CNBC Thursday.
The MOVE index — which looks
at the volatility of
bonds — surged after the election, as the
sell - off and shakiness in fixed income came to a head.
To oversimplify a bit, stocks are tax - efficient (because they're taxed
at the lower capital gains and dividend rate and taxes are deferred until you
sell) and
bonds are not (they're taxed much like a savings account).
Any chance a dealer had of
selling bonds at a high price is pretty much gone.
But given the pace with which
bonds have
sold off this year, a period of consolidation might be
at hand.
[105] On January 8, 2008, to address ongoing structural budget issues, Governor Corzine proposed a four - part proposal including an overall reduction in spending, a constitutional amendment to require more voter approval for state borrowing, an executive order prohibiting the use of one - time revenues to balance the budget and a controversial plan to raise some $ 38 billion by leasing the Garden State Parkway, the New Jersey Turnpike, and other toll roads for
at least 75 years to a new public benefit corporation that could
sell bonds secured by future tolls, which it would be allowed to raise by 50 % plus inflation every four years beginning in 2010.
a type of asset class in which the investments provide a return in two possible forms; coupon paying
bonds have fixed periodic payments and a return of principal; zero coupon
bonds are
sold at a discount, do not pay a coupon, and have a return of principal plus all accumulated interest
at maturity
He was considering
selling the
bonds to lock in the gains, but then he would still have to reinvest his proceeds
at the now lower interest rates.
Careful portfolio management, he said, would allow the central bank to absorb the losses over time by trying to hold
bonds to maturity rather than
selling at a loss.
Holding a
bond ladder that you can liquidate when the market is down provides the alternative to
selling stocks
at the worst possible times, and allows you to wait until the stock market recovers.
BERLIN — Throughout the month, countries caught in the eye of the European financial storm, including Italy, Spain and France, have repeatedly defied expectations,
selling big batches of
bonds to the public
at interest rates significantly lower than investors demanded
at the height of the euro crisis late last year.
«Generally, the
bond market seems to be under - reacting to both the
sell - off and the rally,» said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy
at Societe Generale in New York.
Lastly, unlike
bond mutual funds which can only be purchased or redeemed
at end of day, individual
bonds can be bought and
sold throughout the day providing the investor with more immediate liquidity.
«Some hybrid funds may consider
selling their stock investments for fund redemption due to weak liquidity for their
bond investments following the
bond market and money market crash,» analysts
at Credit Suisse said in a note dated Friday.
If you buy a
bond for less than face value on the secondary market (known as a market discount) and you either hold it until maturity or
sell it
at a profit, that gain will be subject to federal and state taxes.
Today, I
sold the
bonds at 95 cents on the dollar.
Bonds and
bond funds are taxed in 2 ways — based on the income that's distributed and on any gains if the investment is
sold at a profit.
I would be interested if you could compare your 60/40 mix to a 60/40 mix using 5 - year
bonds that are laddered so that they can be held to maturity and used when needed as they mature, and therefore never need to be
sold at a loss.
This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available
at the maturity date so that you do not have to
sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new
bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality
bonds give versus cash or CDs.
Prosecutors claimed Demos lied to his customers about the prices
at which his company could buy or
sell mortgage
bonds, boosting the profit his firm earned on a trade and therefore increasing his own bonus.
Industry in a war boom - stock market stagnant - gov» t
bonds bringing less than 1 % and
selling at a high premium - stocks low and
selling at five times earnings.
But just remember that even though those
bonds are never
sold at a loss, they still have to contend with inflation.
I'd recommend
at least a small allocation to
bonds or cash in the event that an unexpected expense comes up that over and above the dividend yield (although you could always create your own dividend by
selling shares too).
So while these «fallen angel»
bonds have the potential to be intrinsically higher quality than debt originally issued
at the junk or high - yield level, undue structural
selling pressure from the downgrade can cause them to
sell at a discount.
A repo is a contract between two counterparties where one agrees to
sell a
bond to the other and repurchase it
at a specified price
at some date in the future.
The country, which hasn't
sold bonds abroad since the default, has settled arbitration cases
at the World Bank, paid Spanish oil company Repsol SA for the expropriation of YPF SA and negotiated with the Paris Club of creditor nations.
In the end, the insiders
sold out
at the top of the market, leaving pension - fund investors with stocks whose prices were falling and
bonds that were losing their prospects of being paid off.
And some investors may listen to their advice, believing they can reach their investment goals by buying and
selling stocks and
bonds at exactly the right time.
The problem is, you are
selling at a time when the securities (stocks,
bonds, etc.) you own are likely to be cheap!
Jim O'Shaughnessy sees high risk for negative real returns in long
bonds, calling this «a generational
selling opportunity» #TBP2013 — William Sweet, CFP ® @billsweet, president
at Stevens & Sweet Financial
The AKK is planning to
sell 33 billion forint in 2014, 2017 and 2022
bonds at an auction on Jan. 12, according to data from the agency published today.
Hungary's
bonds and stocks rallied after the government
sold the planned amount of debt
at an auction on optimism Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be able to restart talks on an international bailout.
In a diversified portfolio you use your
bonds to buy stocks (or for spending purposes if taking distributions from your portfolio) when the stock market falls so you aren't forced to
sell your stocks
at a low point in the cycle and lock in losses.