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What is Required Rate of Return?

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Keywords: credit rating, risk free rate, supply and demand, required yield, cost of capital, bond issues, required rate of return,

What are Asset-Backed Securities?

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Keywords: asset-backed securities, accounts receivable, securitized, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO), debt issues, asset-backed loan, Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO),

What is Investment Banking?

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Keywords: trading, trading volume, new issue, Initial Public Offering (IPO), investment banks, Volcker Rule, Hedge Funds, banking institutions, Glass-Steagall Act, loan underwriting,

AAA/Aaa — credit rating

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Keywords: bonds, default risk, credit rating, S&P, Moody's, Fitch, ratings agencies,

What is a Secondary Offering?

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Keywords: follow-on-offering, secondary market, new issue, dilutive, SEC registration, diluted earnings per share,

What is a Bond?

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Keywords: investments, fixed income, leverage, bonds, corporate and municipal debt, investment basics,

What is Bond Yield?

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Keywords: secondary market, risk free rate, debt issues, required yield, current yield, yield to maturity, distribution yield, 30-day SEC yield, coupon rate, nominal yield, bond spread, bond yield,

What was the Subprime Meltdown?

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Keywords: 2008, derivatives, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO), Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, defaults, high yield, subprime meltdown, solvency issues, subprime loans,

What is a Bond Coupon?

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Keywords: interest rates, bonds, bond, bond coupons, coupon payments, investment basics,

What is the Absolute Breadth Index?

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Keywords: technical analysis, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), indicators, advance/decline line, oscillators, long straddle, market breadth, advancing issues, market trends,

What are Fully Diluted Shares?

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Keywords: dilutive, supply and demand, diluted earnings per share, shareholder's equity, convertible securities, stock issues, warrant, employee stock options,

What is a Callable Bond?

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Keywords: interest rates, bonds, debt, bond, callable,

What is a Corporate Bond?

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Keywords: interest rates, debt, corporate bonds,

What is a Treasury Note?

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Keywords: bonds, U.S. Treasuries, government bonds, auction, interest rate risk, investment basics,

What is a Convertible Bond?

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Keywords: equity, Stock, bond, interest rate, convertible securities,

Can You Pay More Than Nominal Value for a Bond?

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Keywords: fixed income, interest rate risk, buying and selling activity, bond prices,

What is Accrued Interest?

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Keywords: bonds, accrued interest, accrual accounting, loans, Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO),

What is the Interest Coverage Ratio?

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Keywords: interest rates, debt, loan interest rates, earnings, solvency issues, interest coverage ratio, debt service ratio, EBIT,

What is a Preferred Stock?

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Keywords: bonds, common stock, participating, callable, convertible, hybrid securities, MIPS, QUIPS, TOPrS,

What is a credit rating?

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Keywords: liabilities, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), bonds, risk premium, Standard and Poor's, Moody's, Fitch, Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, surety bond, NRSRO, Credit Rating Agencies (CRA), insurance contracts,

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