corporate bond
- noun
- /ˈkɔːrpərɪt bɑnd/
- Specialized
- Investors typically seek higher returns by purchasing a corporate bond rather than a government bond.
- corporate bonds yield
- corporate bond fund
- high-yield corporate bonds
They've been buying stocks, they've been buying corporate bonds, they've been buying ETFs.
- They've been buying stocks, they've been buying corporate bonds, they've been buying ETFs.
- And you talked there about how being invested in high grade corporate bonds has paid.
- So then you, you can go to, you can try to find some corporate bonds.
- Then we have fixed income derivatives, things like government bonds, corporate bonds, credit spreads, baskets of mortgages, things like that.
- And with billions going into corporate bonds, firms will have more liquidity, which tends to act as a way of backstopping the stock market, AKA bailing out stocks.
Examples
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In addition, possibly because of the Arab boycott, Israeli corporate bonds were issued offshore in order to attract foreign investors.
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So one of the most significant concerns of pricing corporate bonds is default risk.
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I could buy corporate bonds, OK?
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If commercial paper and corporate bond markets are unable to deliver sufficient financing, rates in those markets would be high.
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For example, corporate bonds are exposed to all three of the above risks.
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They began buying up corporate bonds and even stocks.
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As an alternative to seeking bank financing, America's large corporations thankfully have had access to a healthy corporate bond.
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US Treasuries gained an average of 37%, and corporate bonds gained 32%.
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Egypt passed a capital-markets law in 1993 establishing, among other things, mutual funds and the possibility of issuing corporate bonds.
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With short-term interest rates having reached the zero bound, unconventional monetary policies (i.e., extensive government and corporate bond purchases) have nudged long-term interest rates further downward.
Academic text (2018)
Antonyms
- Specialized
A loan to a government that pays interest over time and is usually safe
- Specialized
A loan a city or state sells to pay for public projects, often free from federal taxes
How Risky
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a bond issued by a corporation' is directly and compositionally derived from 'corporate' (relating to a corporation) + 'bond' (a debt instrument). This is a regular noun–noun compound with no idiomatic shift and has clear cross-linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Corporate bond combines corporate (a company) and bond (a written promise to pay). Picture a company giving you a paper promise that pays regular interest and then returns your money — a kind of 'loan' to the company, not a share that gives 'ownership'.