skynesher / Getty Images When investors buy a bond, they essentially lend money to the issuing entity. The bond is a promise to repay its face value—the amount loaned—with an additional ...

Premium bond holders are in with a shout at becoming millionaires each month but the odds are somewhat long. Every month since 1957, those who have invested in the bonds are part of a draw for pri ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - After two years of progress on inflation and surprisingly persistent economic growth, the Federal Reserve next week meets with one eye on new Trump administration ...

There’s a truism in municipal debt: Bonds rarely move on natural disasters. That long-tested concept had held up until fires destroyed thousands of properties in Los Angeles last week.

Surely, then, it is a bad time to own catastrophe bonds? These are securities that protect issuers, mostly insurers and governments, from severe losses in the event of a natural disaster by paying ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond (7) reacts after an incomplete pass during the first half of the Cotton Bowl ...