Not exact matches
That will be important to private investors, because if the central bank held itself out as a privileged
bondholder, effectively passing more risk on to other
bond holders, other buyers might undermine the stimulus program
by demanding higher interest rates.
«Whereas companies routinely reward their shareholders with higher dividends, no company in the history of finance, going back as far as the Medicis, has rewarded its
bondholders by raising the interest rate on a
bond.»
Current
bondholders with fixed coupons become increasingly harmed
by dropping
bond prices as their securities approach maturity.
If your
bond issuer goes bankrupt, secured creditors like banks are paid first, followed
by unsecured creditors like
bondholders.
The new plan also offers a major bow to
bondholders and Wall Street credit rating agencies, who might be worried that state
bonds — with payments guaranteed
by the state's income tax revenues — could face future payment issues if Albany is to rely less on income tax collections.
By the same token, you can not default on the
bond, as that would not be fair to
bondholders, many of whom buy school
bonds as a hedge against inflation and for their retirement.
In general, the effect of the election is to slightly decrease the rate at which the market discount is deemed to accrue, which will generally produce a beneficial result for the
bondholder by reducing the amount of ordinary income recognized on a sale of the
bond prior to maturity.
Because this calculation is only necessary to determine the
bondholder's basis, it need not be done
by the
bondholder until sale or other disposition of the
bond and, if the holder holds the
bond until maturity, it need never be done.
If your
bond issuer goes bankrupt, secured creditors like banks are paid first, followed
by unsecured creditors like
bondholders.
So we the taxpayers are going to eat a ton of bank losses that should instead be borne first
by stockholders and
bondholders This program should be labeled the Pimco bailout plan, since the giant
bond fund holds a lot of bank debt.
Bondholders can, of course, get back the face value of their
bonds by holding on to them until they mature.
This notion is further supported
by the inherent risk premium for stocks over
bonds because stockholders are behind
bondholders in the first lien on a company's resources in bankruptcy.
For
bondholders, usually a trust company appointed
by the company to protect the security behind the
bonds and to make certain that all covenants of the trust deed relating to the
bonds are honoured.
When the government needs to circulate new notes in the economy, the
bonds issued
by the government is bought back from the
bondholders, thus providing investors with money that will then start circulating in the market.
This recent widening of spreads on our credit default swaps could impact the perception of our financial condition
by MBIA Corp.'s insured
bondholders and counterparties and could affect their willingness to purchase MBIA Corp.'s insured
bonds and to continue to enter into transactions with MBIA Corp..
These
bonds are bought
by investors on the open market for less than their face value, and the company uses the cash it raises for whatever purpose it wants, before paying off the
bondholders at term's end (usually
by paying each
bond at face value using money from a new package of
bonds, in effect «rolling over» the debt to the next cycle, similar to you carrying a balance on your credit card).
As a result of the intervention
by the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury, even the
bondholders of Bear Stearns stand to receive 100 % repayment of both interest and principal on their
bond investments.
That said, it is true that the
bondholders of major banks include pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, foreign investors and other holders that would be adversely affected
by a writedown in
bond values.
The asset swap spread (also called the gross spread) is the aggregate price that
bondholders would receive
by exchanging fixed rate
bonds for floating rate
bonds using the swaps market, mainly used to reduce interest rate risk.
But the
bondholders, which included a unit of Chicago - based CNA Financial Corp. and municipal
bond funds managed
by Putnam Investments and Vanguard Group Inc., earlier this year sold their stake to the Walton Street joint venture, according to court records.