Government Bonds
Government Bonds
Included in: Fixed Income Markets Certification (FIMC) ,
- 11 Lessons
- 64,983 Students
Why You Should Take This Course
- Learn how to use Bloomberg to analyze real bonds There are thousands of US government bonds, so where do you start? We work through Bloomberg monitors and shortcuts to learn how to pull up a specific bond if you have one in mind or find the current on-the-run bond for a particular maturity.
- Master the trading conventions Imagine your first day on the trading floor, you are given a quote of “103-06+” for a $100 million of a specific treasury. What does that mean, and how much do you need to pay and when for that specific bond? Decipher the jargon, memorize the conventions, and avoid making costly mistakes on day one.
- Discover how coupons, yields, and durations are calculated — and why they matter Bond math is typically taught poorly, with too many formulas, and too abstractly. We do it differently. We work through actual bonds and coupons. We work through, in Excel, how to calculate the coupon payments, accrued interest, prices, yield and duration by hand. And we show you where to find all this on Bloomberg and how it is done on the job.
Course Samples
Introducing US Treasuries
US Treasury Cashflows
Duration
Get the Fixed Income Markets Certification
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Taught by bankers
Our instructors are former investment bankers who give lessons real-world context by connecting it to their experience on the desk.
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Used on the Street
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