Bond Markets


Recent Articles about Bond Markets

Winners Losers

Jan 1, 1984

Eleven times a year, the money-management magazine FACT publishes the FACT investment Report Card, which chronicles the fate of $10,000 put into a represe...  Read more

College Investing To Zero In On

By B. K. Waidzulis |  Sep 1, 1984

There are two points I would like to add to "Investing for College" (Your Money, July). First, there are tax-exempt zero-coupon bonds sold in the municipa...  Read more

Baby Bonds

Related Terms: Bonds Baby bonds are savings-type securities that a...  Read more

Bonds

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Risk and Return

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Interest Rates

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A Bond By Any Other Name

By Bruce G. Posner |  Nov 1, 1983

Whether you call them "high-yield," "low-rated," or just plain "junk" bonds, a lot of companies are finding there is nothing shoddy about public market debt.  Read more

Maximizing Dividends and Deductions

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1991

Managing a company's working capital to achieve both safety and investment growth.  Read more

Going Global, Part 9: Islamic Bonds

By Max Chafkin |  Apr 6, 2007

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal , published a fascinating story o...  Read more

White House Throws Pensions A Curve

By Ari Weinberg

Steel, auto and airline companies were about to feel good about retiree drug benefits. Now this.  Read more

A New Lift For Small-company Irbs

By Bruce G. Posner |  Jan 1, 1983

Since the congressional reprieve last summer for most industrial revenue bonds, two innovations may make small issues more appealing to national investors.  Read more

Soul Search

By Peter B. Grazier |  Feb 1, 1987

While reading Lucien Rhodes's "Against All Odds" (November 1986), I kept asking myself, why does it take a crisis to bond managers and their workers? You ...  Read more

The Tax Angle: Tips And Traps

Nov 1, 1983

When you have money in a bank account or money-market fund the interest or dividends you earn is ordinary income, and is taxed as such. Stock and bond mut...  Read more

How To Buy Coupons Without Getting Clipped

By Robert A. Mamis |  Aug 1, 1982

Ingenious new devices attached to debt instruments are reviving the bond market. They require a knowledge of investment and a sense of gamesmanship.  Read more

How To Pay Zero Taxes, By Jeff A. Schnepper. Addison-wesley, Reading, Ma 01867; 352 Pp., $6.95 Paperback.

Mar 1, 1982

For most taxpayers, there's probably no more unlikely promise than this book's title. Not all is wishful thinking, though. Professor Schnepper's ample ha...  Read more

Refinancing

Refinancing is the refunding or restructuring of debt with new debt, equity, or a combination of these. Businesses refinance their debts when interest rat...  Read more

A Borrower Be

By Martin Mayer |  Jan 1, 2003

Tough economies and easy credit usually don't mix. So why are banks falling all over themselves to lend small businesses money?  Read more

All About Investments

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Jun 1, 1992

Two resource guides providing ideas on investment opportunities.  Read more

In The Public Eye

Nov 1, 1983

Selling long-term debt in the bond market isn't a financing avenue for a company wishing to keep business details -- especially its numbers -- private. Ev...  Read more

Investing For College

By Lisa R. Sheeran |  Jul 1, 1984

College degrees, you may have noticed, are not coming cheap these days. Costs at both public and private four-year colleges have more than doubled in the ...  Read more

A Blueprint for Lean Start-ups

By Kasey Wehrum |  Apr 26, 2010

Obama uses entrepreneurship to engage Muslim world. Fulfilling a pledge he made during his speech in Cairo last June, President Obama is hosting a ...  Read more

Underground Government

By James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo |  Apr 1, 1983

Politicians are becoming adept at moving their favorite programs off the budget -- and hoping we don't notice.  Read more

Economic Forecaster Stanley Salvigsen

By Robert A. Mamis |  Sep 1, 1988

Interview with economic forecaster who advises on reducing debt to prepare for hard times ahead.  Read more

Money To Burn

By Ron Schultz |  Sep 1, 1988

The Beverly Hills Mint Inc. markets fire starters made of fake money.  Read more

Checking Out Your Insurance Company

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Nov 1, 1991

Resource that provides reports on the financial health of insurance companies.  Read more

Opportunity Cost

Simply stated, an opportunity cost is the cost of a missed opportunity. It is the opposite of the benefit that would have been gained had an action, not t...  Read more

Making The Market

Nov 1, 1983

No man is a market. But in the highly specialized world of low-rated debt, Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.'s Michael Milken comes awfully close. In the late 1...  Read more

Credit

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20 Best Mutual Funds

By Jill Andresky Fraser |  Sep 1, 1996

Inc.'s finance editor offers readers a list of specific mutual funds that are the right choice for company owners.  Read more