Most people think of bonds as being appropriate for those who need regular current income without a huge amount of risk. Yet some bonds are structured specifically not to pay income currently. The ...

As a bond provides a contractual right to a series of future payments received at specified points of time, the price for a bond is simply the present discounted value of the future cash flows. The ...

Zero-coupon bonds is a unique type of debt security that does not make periodic interest payments to bondholders. Instead, these bonds are issued at a discount to their face value, and investors ...

LONDON, Mar 29 (IFR) - Ghana has begun marketing a four-tranche US dollar bond with a big premium over fair value as the African sovereign tries to entice investors into a deal that is expected to ...

When you decide to invest in bonds, you should first understand basic concepts related to such investments. Now, bond investing generally means receiving a steady stream of predictable income. This ...

In this paper we consider a structural form credit risk model with jumps. We investigate the credit spread, the price, and the fair premium of the zero-coupon bond for the proposed model. The price ...

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) (OTC:BABAF) announced the pricing of HK$12.023 billion ($1.5 billion) in zero-coupon exchangeable bonds due 2032, marking the Chinese e-commerce giant’s ...

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Learn more about these unusual investments. Most people think of bonds as being appropriate for those who need regular current income without a huge amount of risk. Yet some bonds are structured ...