Companies & Finance: Bond Information

Library resources

Online:

S&P Bond Guide by Standard & Poor's
Call Number: HG 4905 .S435
Location: current 3 months in Raynor Ref; older issues in Memorial Periodicals
Publication Date: Monthly
A monthly guide to corporate bonds; their ratings, price range (high and low), current yield, and yield to maturity.
SBBI Yearbook by Morningstar, Inc.
Call Number: HG 4501 .S7949 2019
Location: Raynor Reference
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"Market results for stocks, bonds, bills and inflation" .This book has long runs of time series data for market returns on corporate and government bonds, both long-term and intermediate-term.

Books about bonds

This is just a sample of more recent books on bonds, and investing in bonds. The following subject heading searches will help you to find more:

structured notes (securities)

All about Bonds, Bond Mutual Funds, and Bond ETFs by Esme E. Faerber
Call Number: HG 4651 .F29 2009
Location: Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2009
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Bonds: the unbeaten path to secure investment growth by Hildy Richelson; Stan Richelson
Publication Date: 2011
2nd edition. Via O'Reilly: Click on "Institution not listed" and enter your email address.
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Bond Portfolio Investing and Risk Management by Mark Wise; Vineer Bhansali
Call Number: HG 4650 .B53 2011
Location: Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2011
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The Handbook of Municipal Bonds by Frank J. Fabozzi; Sylvan G. Feldstein
Call Number: HG 4726 .H36 2008
Location: Memorial Level 4 Upper
Publication Date: 2008
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Definitions

Not quite sure what a bond is in the financial or business context? Below are some links to more information about this 'beast'.

To the right is an image of an old San Francisco Pacific Railroad bond, from 1865. The image comes from the Wikipedia entry on bonds (linked below) and the Wikimedia Commons; here's more about it.

Pacific Railroad Bond issued by City and County of
San Francisco, CA. May 1, 1865