what is the correlation between bonds and equities?
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Bonds drive the equity prices.\nWhen bonds are upgraded by Moody's' for example,the result of the corporate bond being upgraded can have a strong effect on the stock price. The reverse is also true.
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True.  The price elasticity on high-coupon bonds is less, everything else equal, because for the low-coupon bond, the payment is concentrated in the principle at the end.
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Go to the treasury department's web site.  You can plug in the month and year of the bond and it will tell you exactly how much your bonds are worth.
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If you were to combine the previous two answers, you'd be closer to correct.  Rival has the correct relationship down between volume and open interest, however, you must multiply it by the requisite 100 shares to account for the share differential in each contract.\n\nHope this helps!\n--J.
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Covariance (or so I assume from the context) refers to the correlation between the two random variables. Because it's zero the total variance is just the sum of the two variances. \n\n(1-a)A and aB are the actual variables giving the returns for the B and A portions of the portfolio so the variances are (1-a)^2*(b^2) and a^2 * (2*b^2) (a^2 means a squared etc.). The total variance is just the sum:\n\n(1-a)^2*(b^2) + a^2 * (2*b^2) = b^2[1 - 2a + 3a^2]\n\nYou can see that if a=0 (all A) it's b^2 and if a is 1 (all B) it's 2b^2 as it must be. The minimum is found by differentiating w.r.t. a:\n\n6a - 2 = 0 ==> a = 1/3\n\nAt first it might seem that the portfolio should consist entirely of the stock with the lower volatility (A). However the admixture (2/3 A + 1/3 B) gives a lower volatility by virtue of the diversification provided by two investments instead of one.
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it's a long term equity option attached to a bond.
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None of these. Those are both assets.\n\nDividends, common stock, preferred, etc. are more typical of stockholder's equity.
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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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Interest rates, stock market health...  Basically any competing product.  When things are good in higher risk (stocks), bonds don't do as well.  When the market is tanking, then bonds become more desirable.
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I believe you mean series B Bonds-this is from Yahoo Finance:\n\nBonds are debt and are issued for a period of more than one year. The U.S. government, local governments, water districts, companies and many other types of institutions sell bonds. When an investor buys bonds, he or she is lending money. The seller of the bond agrees to repay the principal amount of the loan at a specified time. Interest-bearing bonds pay interest periodically.
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There is a inverse relationship. When interest rates go up, the stock markets go down. When interest rates go down, stock market go up.\nThere is a old saying "Don't fight the Fed". When the Fed increase its interest rates twice, the stock market would fall.\nAs the interest rates rise, investor would seek safer return in T-bill, bonds, and saving account in banks.\nAs the interest rates fall, investor would to seeking higher return in Stocks rather than invest in low rates of returns in bonds.
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It varies.  There are corporate AAA bonds and munis.  Also, the duration matters.  As an example, the average corporate AAA bond for 5 years is 5.36% today.\n\nYou can find a chart here: http://finance.yahoo.com/bonds/composite_bond_rates
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You buy shares of stocks (or other assets).  So a share is a portion of ownership - could be a stock, bond, mutual fund, option, etc.
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There is no formal relationship between the two, they do tend to move together though. \n\nThey are both commodities and all commodities tend to move together. Indexing and commoditiy funds might be partly responisble as well.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=%5EIXIC&t=my&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
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Check out Barron's Weekly and the Wall Street Journal.  Also, most broker web sites present this general information on a real time basis.  P.S. Even highly rated corporate bonds can go sour over the long term; you may be better off buying longer-term Treasuries.  Bond investing is generally much more difficult than stock investing.
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It's actually D.  A isn't correct because we aren't given the covariance between the two securities.  The portfolio risk is not the simple weighted average of the individual risks. \n\nThe formula is\n\nsquare root of the sum of the weights multiplied with the covariances.\n\nIf the securities are negatively correlated, the total risk can be less than either of the individual securities.  If they're positively correlated, the portfolio risk goes up.