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zero coupon bond - a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond; the commonest form of zero-coupon security

zero-coupon bond

governing, government activity, government, governance, administration - the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government"

corp, corporation - a business firm whose articles of incorporation have been approved in some state

bond certificate, bond - a certificate of debt (usually interest-bearing or discounted) that is issued by a government or corporation in order to raise money; the issuer is required to pay a fixed sum annually until maturity and then a fixed sum to repay the principal

zero coupon security, zero-coupon security - a security that makes no interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value

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dollars (31% of total debt) and a zero coupon bond with the sovereign's explicit guarantee.

Fitch Ratings affirms Province of San Juan IDRs at 'B'

If existing such a zero coupon bond, the empirical analysis is more rewarding.

Pricing Option with Stochastic Interest Rates and Transaction Costs in Fractional Brownian Markets

They analyze information on hundreds of thousands of monthly observations on the yield to maturity of corporate bonds since the launch of the euro in January 1999, and define the credit spread at the bond level as the difference between the corporate bond yield and the yield of a same-maturity German Bund zero coupon bond. They aggregate these bond-level credit spreads to obtain indexes of credit risk for both banks and non-financial corporations in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, as well as for the entire euro area.

Measuring credit risk in the euro area

as a zero coupon bond and a yield rate of 5.15 per cent.

Central government debt up in 2nd quarter of 2013

The principal payment of the loan (bullet) is guaranteed and paid with a zero coupon bond issued by the Federal

Moody's assigns debt rating of Aa1.mx to an enhanced loan of the State of Chiapas

Treasury held a 21-month (644-day) TRY denominated zero coupon bond auction as well as a 3-year (966-day) TRY denominated fixed coupon bond auction.

Treasury auctions -Turkish Treasury sells 4.4 bln TL of bonds in two auctions

Here we define the corporate yield spread as the difference between the yield curves of the risky zero coupon bond and the risk-free, zero coupon bond.

Default risk in corporate yield spreads

The Welsh Coalfields Bond is technically a zero coupon bond on which no interest is paid.

Fund to mine hidden talent in the coalfields; Investment to support creative arts