http://www.investinginbonds.com—Contains
a wealth of information about markets for Treasury, corporate, and municipal
bonds, including easy-to-read tutorials on bond basics, reading bond price
quotations, and many other topics
http://www.bondmarkets.com—An extremely comprehensive site with extensive
coverage of current events, policy issues, and research related to the bond
markets; has an extensive list of links to other bond sites on the web
http://www.financenter.com—A
consumer-oriented site offering various online financial calculators that
allow you to calculate a bond's after-tax yield to maturity, the effect of
interest rate movements on a bond's price, and many other figures
http://www.stockcharts.com/charts/YieldCurve.html—Offers a Java-animated
yield curve juxtaposed to a plot of the S&P 500-an index of stock-price
movements that includes 500 of the biggest and most important firms in the
market; allows you to watch historical movements in stock and bond markets
simultaneously
http://finance.yahoo.com—Can
download historical price and dividend data for any firm by entering its ticker
symbol
Question
4-12 At http://www.nber.org/cycles.html,
you can find the official beginning and ending dates for U.S. business cycles
according to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Problem
4-14 Go to Bondsonline http://www.bondsonline.com,
and click the link to "Corporate Bond Spreads."