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  Encyclopedia: Treasury Bonds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Treasury notes are commonly issued with maturities dates of 2, 3, 5 or 7 years.
Treasury bonds are commonly issued with maturity dates of ten and thirty years.
However, the U.S. Treasury announced in May 2005 that due to a flattening of the yield curve (the difference between short-term bond yields and long-term bond yields is narrowing) and due to demand from pension funds and large, long-term institutional investors, the 30-year Treasury bond might be re-introduced in early 2006.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Treasury-Bonds   (1077 words)

  
 Treasury security -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Treasury bills are considered by many the most risk free investment.
The Treasury calls such securities (additional info and facts about STRIPS) STRIPS (a (additional info and facts about backronym) backronym for "Separate Trading of Registered Interest and Principal Securities"); the name derives from the notional practice of literally tearing the interest coupons off of (paper) securities.
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) are the (additional info and facts about inflation indexed bond) inflation indexed bonds issued by the (additional info and facts about U.S. Treasury) U.S. Treasury.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/treasury_security.htm   (730 words)

  
 Pick Brains - Types of bonds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bonds with a poor credit rating are sometimes known as junk bonds.
Inflation-indexed bonds, in which the principal (or "face" value) is indexed to inflation, which causes higher interest payments (interest is calculated as the coupon rate multiplied by the principal amount).
Subordinated bonds are those that have a lower priority than other debts of the issuing corporation, so if there is not enough money to pay all the company's debts, the "senior" (higher-priority) bonds are paid first, and the subordinate bonds are paid out of what money, if any, is left.
www.pickbrains.com /money/types-of-bonds   (609 words)

  
 Bonds, buying bonds, bonds us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Zero coupon bonds are bonds that do not pay interest during the life of the bonds.
Bonds A bond is a security deposit (usually one month's rent) paid by you to the landlord...
Bonds are "fixed income" investments that have a fixed interest rate or coupon,...
www.wushulink.com /bonds.html   (951 words)

  
 The Educated Investor - Learning Center
Bonds covered include Treasury bonds and notes, collateralized mortgage obligations, agency bonds, and bonds that cannot be traded, called non-marketable bonds.
Bond Ratings and Default Risk - The Bond Ratings and Default Risk tutorial examines how bonds are rated for their investment safety.
Learn why municipal bonds are issued and how they are taxed and insured.
www.theeducatedinvestor.com /onlinetutorial/bonds.html   (345 words)

  
 Social Security | PoliAnna.com
The idea that the President of the United States is traipsing around government buildings questioning the validity of bonds issued by the Treasury Department, even posing with the bond printout while grinning and saying it's no good -- is disgraceful.
As it has been for seventy years, this trust fund is held in Treasury bonds -- long considered the safest investment in the world.
Their idiotic reasoning is that, because they are Treasury bonds, which are loans to the federal government, the government has "spent" the money.
www.polianna.com /2005/04/08.myths.soc-sec.shtml   (2015 words)

  
 myfinance.ca - Treasury Bonds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Treasury Bonds Finish Mostly Higher After Robust Reversal, As Jobs Data Fail to Leave Mark.
Treasury 10-Year Notes Rise Most Since June on Government Inflation Re...
The yield on 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS, was 2.43 percentage points less than fixed- rate 10-year notes.
www.myfinance.ca /Treasury-Bonds/all/search   (273 words)

  
 Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) Treasury bonds, Direct trading, 05/08/2005 - World News from all over the world
Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) Treasury bonds, Direct trading, 05/08/2005 - World News from all over the world
News Prague Stock Exchange (PSE) Treasury bonds, Direct trading, 05/08/2005 15:24 Czech crown strengthens on Friday 15:23 Prague Stock Exchange (PSE), Secondary market share trading fixing, 05/08/...
MP Consult files suit to block sale of Vitkovice Steel until ownershipquestions are answered
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