And Interest
"And interest" is a reminder used by a bond salespeople when they quote the price of a bond. This little hinty phrase is deployed to inform the buyer that they will pay for the basic price of the bond, but the price will also include any accrued interest.
Let’s say you are being quoted a price of a bond at $200 “and interest,” and the bond issuer makes annual interest payments of $12. If you buy the bond in March and one quarter of the year has passed since the bond paid any interest, the accrued interest you can expect to pay for and receive is $9, nine months from now.
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Finance a la shmoop what is bond amortization? okay fancy term easy
concept the basic idea is that you have to "revalue" what a bond is
actually worth each period which usually means twice a year because bonds pay [Monthly calendar appears]
interest on the you know semester system yeah twice a year so let's say you've
paid seven hundred bucks for a bond with a 5% coupon which comes due for a
thousand bucks in ten years over that time you'll have received two things the
5% per year interest from the bond in cash paid along the way and the [5% interest per year appears]
appreciation of the 700 bucks to become the thousand dollar par value at which
point it will eventually pay back its principal so to amortize the $300 of
appreciation of that bond over ten years while you could attribute 30 bucks a
year in appreciation each year such that after we'll say three and a half years
you'd hold the bond as having appreciated 3.5 times 30 bucks or $105 [Straight line appreciation formula appears]
in appreciation making the bond worth at that point in time eight hundred five
dollars oh yeah fancy but also pretty easy
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