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Bellwether Issue

An issue of debt securities that carries an interest rate very close to the prevailing market rates (in the secondary...

Bond Dividend

A type of liability dividend that is paid to stockholders in the form of bonds. In this sense, stockholders become...

Bond Ex-Dividend

The interval between the announcement of a coupon and the payment date. If a bond trades during this period of...

Bellwether

A stock, index, bond, or other financial instrument that signifies, foretells or spearheads the direction of a market, industry or...

Bellwether Bond

A government bond (or a broadly a bond) that is generally considered to signify the probable future movement or direction...

Bond Substitution Swap

A bond swap that entails swapping substitute bond issues experiencing short-term imbalances in yield spreads. The imbalance will correct itself...

Bear Tracker Certificate

A tracker certificate which gain in value when the price of the underlying goes down, and vice versa. Such a...

Basis Point

A basis point (bps) is 0.01 percentage point and equals $1,000 annually on a contract protecting $10 million of debt...

Brady Bond

A bond that is issued by a developing country or a less developed country (LDC) as a voluntary debt relief...

Bond Swap

A trade that involves the sale of one bond and the use of the proceeds to purchase a different bond...