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What is a Treasury Note?
Treasury notes are government-issued coupon bonds with maturities between 1 and 10 years.
A large secondary market exists for Treasury Notes, and they can be acquired at issue in a competitive bid or a noncompetitive bid auction. They are extremely popular for their marketability and six-month interest payment schedule. They do have interest rate risk, since treasuries issued with higher interest rates will make the ones already issued with lower rates less valuable.
Auctions are held frequently for institutional bidders; for example, there were 310 auctions in 2010, and the treasuries sold raised $8.4 Trillion that the government could use to pay off old notes and bonds which had reached maturity and to generate more new money.
What is the “Riskless” (or Risk-Free) Rate of Return?
What does Market Risk Premium mean?
How Do I Measure My Risk Tolerance?
What are option strategies?
Option strategies are implemented by investment professionals to profit from the price movement of an underlying strategy
What Types of Life Insurance Exist?
There are more than a few types of life insurance, and more are introduced as time passes. Term life is the most common
What is the gordon growth model?
The Gordon Growth Model is also known as the dividend discount model (DDM). It is a model for pricing a stock
What is a Dividend Tax Credit?
In Canada, the dividend tax credit eliminates tax liability for eligible dividends. Eligible dividends can come from...
How does Bitcoin Mining Work?
Mining is the act of letting one’s computer run what’s known as the “hash function” over and over and over in an attempt to crack the codes on the blocks that need validation
What is Depreciation?
Depreciation is the accounting practice of recording the decreasing value of a fixed asset, such as a building
What is 'Pro Forma'?
In a financial statement, “Pro Forma” refers to how figures are presented either in present form or as projections
What is Burn Rate?
Burn rate is a term for negative cash flow, or the rate at which a company burns through capital, especially a startup
What is Cash Flow-to-Debt Ratio?
Cash Flow-to-Debt Ratio compares the size of a company’s cash flow from operations to the size of its debt
What is the Federal Budget?
A Federal Budget is created every year. It originates with a proposed budget from the President