Site-By-Site! Closed-End Funds Center

Corporate Bonds (also called corporates) are debt obligations, or IOU's, issued by private and public corporations. They are typically issued in multiples of $1,000 and/or $5,000. Companies use the funds they raise from selling bonds for a variety of purposes, from building facilities to purchasing equipment to expanding the business.

When you buy a bond, you are lending money to the corporation that issued it, which promises to return your money, or principal, on a specified maturity date. Until that time, it also pays you a stated rate of interest, usually semiannually. The interest payments you receive from corporate bonds are taxable. Unlikestocks, bonds do not give you an ownership interest in the issuing company.

• An Investor's Guide to Corporate Bonds
• Corporate Bonds explained on Wikipedia
• Yahoo Bonds Center
• NASD BondInfo
  This website has been designed to assist the bond investor in obtaining valuable market information about corporate bonds. This site will give you an opportunity to review basic descriptive information on many corporate bonds, as well as individual and summary transaction data gathered by the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD). The NASD has a database on corporate bonds that can help you get market information about corporate bonds.
• Bondsonline.com
  Your source for fixed income investing. If you are looking for information, education and direction in making bond investment decisions- from tracking bond prices and bond market news to self directed education and bond trading. BondsOnline is your source.