Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Current maturity ...

When a government or corporation issues a bond, it does so with a specific par value and interest rate. Once in the market, those values don’t change; however, the value of a bond can change depending ...

Bonds are a more complex investment than common stocks as their prices are immediately impacted by things like inflation or general interest rates in addition to business performance. This makes bond ...

A municipal bond’s embedded call option allows the issuer of the bond to “call” (i.e., pay back) the debt at a date prior to the bond’s final maturity, which allows the issuer to reduce the cost of ...

When savings bonds mature depends on the series of bond held. The maturity period for Series I and EE bonds is 30 years, while Series HH bonds mature after 20 years. For example, a Series EE ...

Investing is a numbers game, and there are dozens upon dozens of numbers to know. There are so many numbers, in fact, it can be a bit overwhelming. This is especially true when you get into technical ...