what is a corporate bond?
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A corporate bond is a debt obligation that is issued by a corporation.\n\nA bond (or debt obligation) is basically a loan with a stated interest rate (whether fixed or floating) and fixed due dates when interest and principal must be paid.\n\nBondholders do not have ownership rights (like common stockholders) but they do have a commitment of repayment from the corporate issuer.
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A crossover bond is a bond whose credit rating is just on the edge between investment grade and high yield--or junk--status.  Crossover bonds have all the same risks and rewards as other bonds, but there's one additional factor.\n\nMany institutional investors--pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, etc.--can only buy bonds that are rated "investment grade," or BBB- or higher.  So if a crossover bond rated BBB- gets its rating cut to BB+, many of these investors have to sell their holdings of these bonds to get them out of their portfolios.  That means the prices of these bonds falls more than you might expect as institutions dump their holdings on the market.  Eventually, the prices of bonds downgraded to high yield status recover somewhat.  But following the downgrade, they take a big hit.
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Contracts and laws are the means which the multinational companies use in dealing with government to protect their investments.  Thus, there is nothing to lose.
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First, there are public and private organizations that use these strategies for long-term financing.  But, for answering this question, I shall only refer to public companies. \n\nFirst, public companies arrange for public financing through investment banking firms like Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, etc.  Bonds are basically loans to the corporation from the public.  These will be paid first if the company goes belly up.  Stocks are sold to share-holders who are also owners of the company.  That money is then put to use in the company for purposes such as research and development, mergers and acquisitions of other companies, paying employees, etc.  Long-term leases are basically loans to the company from a real-estate management firm that allows the corporation to occupy space.
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Corporate reporting could be anything reported by a company to anywhere outside of the company. Most of the time it is financial data reported to Wall Street analysts, etc. \n\nPublic companies must report their financials to the outside world, where as private companies don't have to. However some of the biggest private companies still report.
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Share is you buy a share in a company (by buying 10 shares you own that part of the company). If the company makes profit, you gain ..if it loses you lose money.you can lose your entire money if the company goes bankrupt.\n\nBonds: you lend money to the company by buying bonds. the returns are fixed, your investment is guaranteed based on the Securities exchange comission rules. \n\nBonds reduce the chance of making good money when the stock price shoots up.
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An account where the investment is purchased from one company but the securities/bonds, etc. are physically held somewhere else. In the mutual fund world, you would buy shares from a company like Fidelity but the underlying securities/bonds, etc. are physically held by a bank.
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You are asking too big a question to be answered here. Anyway, I'll give u just an idea of what is what.....\n\nBonds and Debentures are debt instruments. The borrower (may be a Company ) issues the Bond or Debenture as the case may giving details of the interest to be paid and the period of the loan, and how the loan will be repaid. There are different types of bonds & debentures. When u buy a bond or debenture u become a creditor to the company.\n\nShare is equity participation in the Company. When u buy a share, u become a shareholder of the company. The company will pay u dividend on the shares held by you (share of your profit in the company is called dividend). \n\nDeposits are like any bank deposit. Interest is paid in various ways on the deposits.\n\nTo issue a share / bond / debenture, the company must be registered and must have the necessary minimum capital. Prior approval from the existing share holders, Company Law Board, SEBI, RBI etc is necessary...
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General Obligation bonds are backed by the full taxing power of the municipality. A limited use bond that is for a building would depend on the success of the building and its ability to pay off the debt in the future. What if the building was the victim of a biological attack that closed it down for years and therefore did not have the revenues to pay off the bond debt? That is the problem.
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There is a bond called an(I bond) that out preforms most CD's you can ask your local bank about them!
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Sometimes companies borrow money by issuing bonds in small denominations that are targeted at individual investors.  These bonds tend to be "locked up" into individual investor accounts and so are fairly untradable.  As a result they are not quoted, though they exist and you can see them in company annual reports.  \n\nAn example is General Motors - they often have issued such bonds.  As a professional investor I was interested in buying some but it was pretty much impossible, as I could only get relatively small amounts.
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Co is company: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-31,GWYA:en&oi=defmore&defl=en&q=define:company\n\nCorp is corporation: A body that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members. \n\nInc is incorporated: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-31,GWYA:en&q=define%3Aincorporated\n\nLtd means limited: \nhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-31,GWYA:en&q=define%3A+Ltd%2E\nGo to the following link for the IRS's definitions
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This is medium- to long-term debt (bonds) typically issued by a (publicly-traded) company that needs to raise money.  \n\nUsually they say it's for general corporate purposes, including the repayment of other debts and funding of large capital expenditures.  \n\nThe % in front refers to the coupon rate note-holders will receive, usually on a semi-annual basis.\n\n"Senior" Notes mean that these investors get preference should the company go bankrupt and assets are sold to repay debtholders.  Other debtholders would get what's left after the senior note holders recoup some of their investment
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A corporation is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a natural person. Civil law systems may refer to corporations as "moral persons"; they may also go by the name "AS" (anonymous society) or something similar, depending on language (see below).\n\nIn colloquial usage, "corporation" usually refers to a commercial entity set up in accordance with a governmental framework. Churches (mainly in US, but not so much in other countries, where Churches have a different status), interest groups (both can form as not-for-profit corporations or can exist as voluntary associations), cities and townships (often chartered as public corporations), among others, may also have historically lengthy corporate identities.
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What type of bond? And risk to whom?
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In a bond election, a government entity (city, county, etc.) seeks permission from the voters to sell bonds, usually to pay for a project such as roads, water/sewer improvements, or similar projects.  The bonds are sold to investors; at maturity they pay interest to the holders of the bonds.  The bonds are generally paid off from municipal revenues - mostly by taxes, which may include property tax, sales tax, etc.
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There is no such thing as a mutual bond.  I think you mean municipal bond, which is issued by either a state or local government to raise funds for a variety of thing (build a school, fix a highway...) Most of the time a municipal bonds interest is tax free so when comparing it to corporate bond or something remember that you will not pay taxes on the interest of a municipal bond.  \nA treasury bond is issued by a federal government and is the origin of our nation debt.  Usually, a t-bill pays a little less interest than a municiple bond because the odds of the government defalting is less than a state or local government.   However, the odds of either one defalting is extremely low.