Bond investors can build portfolios bond by bond or they can opt for a mutual bond fund. Which approach is likely to produce a better outcome? Answering this question is not as simple as you might ...

All else being equal, a bond with a longer maturity usually will pay a higher interest rate than a shorter-term bond. For example, 30-year Treasury bonds often pay a full percentage point or two ...

William & Mary is proud to host the Eta Rho Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. The William & Mary chapter was founded in 1976 with the purpose of stimulating ...

For a little more than a century, chemists have believed that strong atomic links called covalent bonds are formed when atoms share one or more electron pairs. Now, researchers have made the first ...

Now, a team of researchers from Hokkaido University has isolated a compound in which a single electron is shared between two carbon atoms in a remarkably stable covalent bond, known as a sigma bond.

A convertible bond is an investment vehicle that starts as a bond and then can turn into a stock. These bonds are often framed by sellers as a way to reduce risk by having the certainty of a bond ...

Open market purchases raise bond prices, and open market sales lower bond prices. So, open market operations (OMOs) affect bond prices. Interest rates are negatively related to bond prices.

Since 1926, large stocks have returned an average of 10 % per year; long-term government bonds have returned between 5% and 6%, according to investment researcher Morningstar.

A government bond is a debt security issued by a government to support spending and obligations. Government bonds pay bondholders periodic interest payments called coupon payments. Government ...

The first Bond film, Dr No, would be released 10 years later, marking the start of an astonishingly successful movie franchise that would still be making box-office millions more than half a ...

Shannon Bond is a correspondent at NPR, covering how misleading narratives and false claims circulate online and offline, and their impact on society and democracy. She previously covered ...