{"id":40224,"date":"2017-09-30T02:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40224"},"modified":"2017-09-19T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T13:02:18","slug":"office-hours-the-bond-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/30\/office-hours-the-bond-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Hours: The Bond Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/szqu1zr5PBA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Marginal Revolution University<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 19 Jul 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Intro to the Bond Market, you learned the basics about bonds and how they differ from stocks. But what if you\u2019re investing and you\u2019ve got a few possible companies to choose from? How would you evaluate which bond is likely to be the best investment for you?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at an example from our bond market practice questions:<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you\u2019d like to invest in a company and you\u2019ve narrowed your choice down to three firms: Company A is offering a zero-coupon bond with a face value of $1000 to be repaid in 1 year for $963. Company B has the same face value and maturity date but sells for $871. And company C also has the same face value and maturity but sells for $985. In which would you rather invest?<\/p>\n<p>If some of the terms have you scratching your head, don\u2019t worry! Go ahead and start this Office Hours video. Mary Clare Peate from the MRU team will cover the jargon and give you the tools you need to master the problem on your own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marginal Revolution University Published on 19 Jul 2016 In Intro to the Bond Market, you learned the basics about bonds and how they differ from stocks. But what if you\u2019re investing and you\u2019ve got a few possible companies to choose from? How would you evaluate which bond is likely to be the best investment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[571,1093],"class_list":["post-40224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-investment","tag-macroeconomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-asM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40225,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40224\/revisions\/40225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}