High yields shaped a dated market snapshot
Bond prices and yields should not be confused.
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In this lesson: Explain the price-yield relationship while keeping fixed payments separate.
Grammar in this story: Correspondence with corresponds to
a lower purchase price corresponds to a higher yield
Corresponds to links two related values. The condition “for those fixed payments” matters because the payments are held constant.
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Explain how the same bond payments can correspond to different yields.
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The payments are fixed, but buyers may pay different prices. For the same payments, a lower purchase price corresponds to a higher yield.
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