Financial guarantee bonds guarantee payment of fees or taxes. For example, an alcohol tax bond guarantees that state taxes for the sale of alcoholic beverages will be paid.

When Bonds Make More Sense. There are two key reasons when bonds may make better sense for your portfolio: Steady income.Since most bonds pay a regular “coupon” or interest payment, bonds are ...

A payment-in-kind bond is a type of bond that pays interest in additional bonds rather than in cash. PIK bonds are typically issued by companies facing financial distress.

If a bondholder sells this bond on October 1, the buyer receives the full coupon payment on the next coupon date scheduled for December 1. In this case, the buyer must pay the seller the interest ...

The deal “means nearly 70% of the bond’s principal payment will be delayed to three years later, which could greatly reduce pressure on Country Garden and improve its long-term debt servicing ...

“The longer you have to wait to receive your bond payment, the more inflation will devalue that payment,” Dominic Pappalardo, chief multi-asset strategist at Morningstar Wealth, told ABC News.

A payment bond guarantees that the contractor can pay workers, subcontractors, and suppliers. Government projects typically require contractors to provide a payment bond and a performance bond.

The missed interest payment was for $287 million of the $1.1 billion in municipal bonds used to finance the mall’s construction, Bloomberg reported. The bonds are tied to state sales tax ...

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is planning to default on paying a nearly $1m interest payment on more than $41m in bonds it sold in 2017, leading lawyers for the people who purchased th ...

The semiannual interest payment due Feb. 1 on some of the municipal bonds used to finance the $5 billion American Dream megamall in East Rutherford was not made due to insufficient funds, said a ...