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 ...

When investors purchase bonds, they do so primarily to generate income. The expected annual rate of return is called the current yield, and it is a function of the current price and the amount of ...

Bonds are a type of debt security used by government entities and corporations to raise money. Every bond come with a face value, which is sometimes called a par value. This number indicates what the ...

Bonds are popular fixed income investment instruments and are often regarded as bearing relatively low-risk burdens. While bonds are less volatile than other investments, they are not risk-free, ...

If you have ever stared at a bond statement and felt the numbers blur, then you are not alone. In simple terms, the coupon rate tells you the interest cash you will receive each year. Once you see the ...

You can check the value of your savings bond through the TreasuryDirect website. Even if you have paper savings bonds, you can check your value online, as long as you have the issue date, bond series ...

Bonds trade OTC, and there’s typically no central market where investors can see where bonds were bought and sold. At the same time the majority of bonds do not trade every day and so their value must ...

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The total bond premium is equal to the market value of the bond less the face value. For instance, with a 10-year bond paying 6% interest that has a $1,000 face value and currently costs $1,080 in the ...

This article was written by David Mullen, Product Manager for Core Fixed-Income Analytics, and Fateen Sharaby, Business Manager for Index-Linked Products at Bloomberg. Credit futures, which started ...

Carrying value equals bond face value plus unamortized premiums or minus discounts. Calculate it using face, current term, and premium or discount per year. Investors use carrying value to assess bond ...

You don’t have to wait for your savings bond to mature to cash it in. Here’s how to find out how much yours is worth today. David McMillin writes about credit cards, mortgages, banking, taxes and ...