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The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index is a market capitalization-weighted index, meaning the securities in the index are weighted according to the market size of each bond type. Most U.S. traded investment grade bonds are represented. Municipal bonds, and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are excluded, due to tax treatment issues.
Option-adjusted spread (OAS) is the yield spread which has to be added to a benchmark yield curve to discount a security's payments to match its market price, using a dynamic pricing model that accounts for embedded options. OAS is hence model-dependent.
The bonds are purchased from the market at $985.50. Given that $2.00 pays the accrued interest, the remainder ($983.50) represents the underlying value of the bonds. The following table illustrates the values of these terms. The market convention for corporate bond prices assigns a quoted (clean price) of $983.50.
The Frankfurt Bond Market, 1988. A bond index or bond market index is a method of measuring the investment performance and characteristics of the bond market.There are numerous indices of differing construction that are designed to measure the aggregate bond market and its various sectors (government, municipal, corporate, etc.)
Bond Type Currency Australia Office of Financial Management Treasury Indexed Bonds (TIBs) AUD ($) Canada Bank of Canada Marketable Bonds CAD ($) China Ministry of Finance People's Bank of China (PBC) Bonds CNY (¥) France Agence France Tresor (French Treasury) Obligation Assimilable du Tresor (OAT) EUR (€) Germany
The index continued trading downward towards a 13-year low, reaching a bottom of 6,858.43 points, on March 9, 2009, [4] representing a loss of about $10.9 trillion in market capitalization from its highs in 2007. The Wilshire 5000 gained approximately $2.5 trillion in market value during the first 11 months of 2009 [5] while the index rose ...
In 2009, Bloomberg released Bloomberg’s Open Symbology ("BSYM"), a system for identifying financial instruments across asset classes. [1]As of 2014 the name and identifier called 'Bloomberg Global Identifier' (BBGID) was replaced in full and adopted by the Object Management Group and Bloomberg with the standard renamed as the 'Financial Instrument Global Identifier' (FIGI).
In finance, a high-yield bond (non-investment-grade bond, speculative-grade bond, or junk bond) is a bond that is rated below investment grade by credit rating agencies. These bonds have a higher risk of default or other adverse credit events but offer higher yields than investment-grade bonds in order to compensate for the increased risk.