BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Corporate Bond
- a long-term bond with fixed interest issued by a corporation
Additional Resources
- Corporate-Bond Information.(Brief Article)
- CORPORATE-BOND INFORMATION Point me to a Web site that posts prices on corporate bonds. Click on "Corporate Bonds" on the Bond Market Association's home page at www.investinginbonds.com. That will take you directly to a search tool maintained by the National Association of...
- Research articles 2003-01-01
- Corporate Bond
- Similar to a mortgage with a bank, bonds are an issue by a borrower to a lender. When one buys a corporate bond he may be loaning one's money to a corporation for a predetermined period of time, the maturity. In most cases the bond's par value is $1,000, this...
- White papers
- Asia update; NTT DoCoMo plans corporate bond issue in early March.
- TOKYO--NTT DoCoMo, the second-largest mobile carrier in the world, plans to issue 20 billion yen (US$170 million) in corporate bonds as early as next week. It will mark DoCoMo's first corporate bond issue, as well as the biggest amount of corporate TOKYO--NTT DoCoMo, the...
- Research articles 2001-03-12
- An Anatomy of Corporate Bond Markets: Growing Pains and Knowledge Gains
- The objective of this paper is to discuss the key issues relating to the development of local corporate bond markets. It examines the requirements for local corporate bond market development, and compare and contrast experiences across both mature and emerging markets. It suggests that core aspects such as benchmarking, corporate...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Corporate bond issues drop on Thai market.
- By Parista Yuthamanop, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 21--New corporate bond issues fell in the first nine months of this year, due to the uncertainty over the interest rate, according to Thai Bond Dealing Centre. But...
- Research articles 2004-10-21
- Middle East: First Corporate Bond set in Saudi Arabia
- The International Finance Corporation, the part of the World Bank that lends to the private sector, signed a rival-denominated credit guarantee of $6.7 million for the first corporate bond issue in Saudi Arabia. The partial guarantee will back a bond issue by Saudi Orix Leasing of up to $15 million,...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
- Corporate Bond Spreads and the Business Cycle
- This paper examines the predictive power of credit spreads from the corporate bond market. The high-yield bond spread and investment-grade spread can explain 68 per cent and 42 per cent of output variations one year ahead, while the term spread based on government debts can explain only 12 per cent...
- White papers
- BNP Paribas Announces New Leadership for Its High Grade Corporate Bond Business in New York
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 6, 2000 BNP Paribas today announced the appointment of David Fergione as Head of its High Grade Corporate Bond business in New York, responsible for Corporate High Grade Trading, Sales, and Research. "BNP Paribas continues to build its Corporate Bond business in...
- Research articles 2000-11-06
- Structural Models of Corporate Bond Pricing: An Empirical Analysis
- This paper empirically tests five structural models of corporate bond pricing. It implements the models using a sample of 182 bond prices from firms with simple capital structures during the period 1986-1997. The conventional wisdom is that structural models do not generate spreads as high as those seen in the...
- White papers 2003-04-14
- Fitch Ratings Included in New NASD-Bloomberg Corporate Bond Indices
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings announces that their credit ratings are being used in the newly launched NASD-Bloomberg Active U.S. Corporate Bond Indices. NASD added Fitch to its criteria to determine TRACE dissemination earlier this year and has extended that use to the newly launched set of cobranded corporate bond...
- Research articles 2005-11-07
- MOODY'S ASSIGNS RATING TO AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE BOND FUND.
- SYDNEY, Jan 15 Asia Pulse - Moody's Investors Service has assigned mutual fund credit and market risk ratings of A/MR3 to the Australian Corporate Bond Fund the Fund. The Fund, which is designed for institutional investors, is managed by AMP Capit SYDNEY, Jan 15 Asia...
- Research articles 2004-01-15
- Barclays Global Investors Announces Index Provider and Name Changes of the iShares GS $ InvesTop(TM) Corporate Bond Fund
- Barclays Global Investors announced today that the index provider of the iShares GS $ InvesTop™ Corporate Bond Fund (AMEX: LQD) is International Index Company IIC and the Fund is being renamed the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund, as a result of Goldman, Sachs & Co. selling its...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Index rule could upsize REIT deals.(Lehman Brothers' corporate bond index sets threshold at $250 million)
- A change to a widely used investor tool--Lehman Brothers' corporate bond index--is likely to encourage larger deals in the REIT market. A change to a widely used investor tool--Lehman Brothers' corporate bond index--is likely to encourage larger deals in the REIT market.
- Research articles 2004-04-02
- A Look at Corporate Bond Spreads
- Eddy Elfenbein submits: Here’s a fascinating look at corporate bond yields over the past 90 years. I got the data off the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ data bank. This chart shows the yields of Moody’s index of Aaa and Baa seasoned corporate bond yields. by Eddy Elfenbein
- External links 2008-11-16
- GM's new jumbo corporate bond deal and Ford parts supplier must become more competitive.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-25 June 2003-Financial News USA: GM's new jumbo corporate bond deal and Ford parts supplier must become more competitiveC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06252003 With a lot riding on the success of its new jumbo corporate bond deal, investors say that...
- Research articles 2003-06-25
- Low Rates Fuel Corporate Bond Issues in Thai Finance Market.
- By Darana Chudasri, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--Low interest rates are attracting corporate bond issuing to refinance higher costs of funds, according to Tawit Thanachanan, first senior vice-president at Kasikornbank. Most market watchers had earlier...
- Research articles 2003-07-16
- News: Corporate bond issuance to fall by 25-30% in 2004.
- Institutional investors will have to divert major tranches of their funds this year as corporate bond issuance slows by between 25 per cent and 30 per cent, according to ABN Amro. The bank's credit research and strategy team predicts that corporate bond issuance in...
- Research articles 2004-01-12
- PaineWebber names Randy M. Masel head of credit research; Labriola to head corporate bond research department
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 9, 1997--PaineWebber Inc. said today that Randy M. Masel has been promoted to the newly created position of head of Credit Research at the firm. A managing director, Masel previously headed PaineWebber's Corporate Bond Research department. The director of the Fixed...
- Research articles 1997-04-09
- Schroders talks up corporate bond market.
- Byline: Piers Townsend Schroder Investment Management is telling investors to sell government bonds and buy corporate debt, to take advantage of the high yields currently on offer.Government bond yields have fallen on average by 1.5% over the past six months as investors charged into...
- Research articles 2002-11-14
- MarketAxess Launches Corporate BondTicker; Real-Time Access to Corporate Bond Price and Spread Data
- Business Editors NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 11, 2002 MarketAxess, the leading Internet-based multi-dealer trading platform for credit products, today announced the launch of MarketAxess Corporate BondTickerTM, a new web-based data product that combines NASD TRACESM data with MarketAxess' tools to provide institutional users with the most comprehensive set of...
- Research articles 2002-12-11
