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An obligation is a course of action which someone is required to take, be it a legal obligation or a moral obligation.Obligations are constraints; they limit freedom.People who are under obligations may choose to freely act under obligations.
In finance, a bond is a type of security under which the issuer owes the holder a debt, and is obliged – depending on the terms – to provide cash flow to the creditor (e.g. repay the principal (i.e. amount borrowed) of the bond at the maturity date as well as interest (called the coupon) over a specified amount of time. [1]
U.S. government bond: 1976 8% Treasury Note. A government bond or sovereign bond is a form of bond issued by a government to support public spending.It generally includes a commitment to pay periodic interest, called coupon payments, and to repay the face value on the maturity date.
1969 $100,000 Treasury Bill. Treasury bills (T-bills) are zero-coupon bonds that mature in one year or less. They are bought at a discount of the par value and, instead of paying a coupon interest, are eventually redeemed at that par value to create a positive yield to maturity.
In corporate finance, a debenture is a medium- to long-term debt instrument used by large companies to borrow money, at a fixed rate of interest. The legal term "debenture" originally referred to a document that either creates a debt or acknowledges it, but in some countries the term is now used interchangeably with bond, loan stock or note.
In finance, bond convexity is a measure of the non-linear relationship of bond prices to changes in interest rates, and is defined as the second derivative of the price of the bond with respect to interest rates (duration is the first derivative).
The bond market (also debt market or credit market) is a financial market in which participants can issue new debt, known as the primary market, or buy and sell debt securities, known as the secondary market.
In finance, a bond option is an option to buy or sell a bond at a certain price on or before the option expiry date. [1] These instruments are typically traded OTC.. A European bond option is an option to buy or sell a bond at a certain date in future for a predetermined price.