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Corporate Bonds
Corporate Bonds are put into the market when a corporation needs to have extra money for various reasons. The Corporate Bond is actually issued by some corporation or company. They might need money to expand their business or they might need the money to start a new business. The Corporate Bonds are like an way to earn a kind of loan from the people. One person, by buying this Corporate Bonds actually provides loans to the company whose bond he has bought. This is actually one type of fixed income securities.
This is also considered as one of the riskiest form of fixed income securities. This corporate bonds are only backed by the particular bond company who actually issues it. The Company may suffer some financial crisis and one can find himself in danger of loosing out some money. But the company normally compensates the individual for the loss. The Corporate Bonds more often than not pays a higher rate of interest to those who buy it than most of the government bonds and securities.
The Interest Rate that the Corporate Bonds offer is known as the coupon. If a person keeps the bonds to him until the bond reaches its maturity he would receive the bond's full face value unless the company defaults.
The Corporate Bond Prices normally fall when the interest rate rises and the vice versa. If a person byes a bond with a certain amount of money and with a certain amount of interest rate and the interest rate goes up after that the price of the old corporate bond automatically goes down as the new bonds with higher interest rates would give one more money.
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