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How do I handle bond premiums and bond discounts ? :
| If you buy a bond that pays an interest rate over and above the market interest rate, implicit in your purchase price is something called the bond premium. The bond premium is just the market's way of adjusting the price of a bond that pays too high of an interest rate. |
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What is Bond Convexity ?
| Remember, as bond yields go higher, price goes lower. This relationship between price and yield has a convex structure in nature. The term used to describe this relationship is also known as convexity. Notice in the diagram below, we have drawn a tangent line a yield Y*. This tangent line is very similar to the concept of duration and represents the rate of change in price as interest rates change. When the steepness of this tangent line increases, so does the duration. |
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