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bonds are loans. Like a car loan or a home loan, they are legal
contracts between lenders (issuers) and borrowers (bondholders).
Bond issuers - governments, agencies, municipalities and
corporations - have an obligation to repay the loan with interest
over a fixed time period. |
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Moody's - Moody's Investors Service economists survey
the international credit markets. Ratings about bonds. |
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Standard & Poors:
It is one of the world's preeminent providers of credit and bond
ratings |
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InterNotes - Broker-sold financial product that provides
individual investors the abilty to buy US corporate debt securities
directly from the issuer rather than in the secondary market. |
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Investing In Bonds -
Information about bond investing from The Bond Market Association.
Bond price information, articles, introductory guides, and links to
related sites. |
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Treasury Direct - Open
an account with the U.S. Treasury to buy and sell either Treasury
Bills, Notes and Bonds or Savings Bonds online. Funds transfer from
and to your specified bank account. Excellent. |
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Bondpage.com - Access to an inventory of fixed income securities
for the institutional-sized clients of Cambridge Group Investments,
Ltd. |
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J.B. Hanauer & Co. - Brokerage firm for corporate, state, and
municipal bonds. Site features list of offerings available that is
updated daily. |
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Tradebonds.com - Online access to the bond markets, research,
analysis and trading. Featuring a complete daily fixed income
database to search the market, pooling inventory from hundreds of
broker/dealer desks. |
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The Bond Market Association - Industry news for bond markets
professionals from the trade association for brokers and dealers.
Very Good. |
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BradyNet - Information on emerging markets' fixed income
investments. |
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U.S. Bureau of Public
Debt - Official site. Explanations, laws, statistics, and online
trading of US Treasury Bills, Notes, and Bonds and US Savings Bonds. |
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Bond Glossary -
Glossary of bond terms for individual investors. |
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