Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications (Mcgraw-hill Education Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications (Mcgraw-hill Education Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
5th Edition
ISBN: 9781259289903
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Jeffrey Jaffe, Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5, Problem 16CQ
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To critically think about: The similarity between junk bonds and 100-year bonds, and the reason why critics call them “equity in disguise”

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Junk bonds are bonds with a rating below investment grade. The rating agencies rate junk bonds below the investment grade (BBB or Baa). Hence, junk bonds will have ratings such as BB, Ba, B, CCC, Caa, CC, Ca, C, and D. The yields and the default risk of junk bonds are very high.

The 100-year bonds are bonds with maturity period of 100 years.

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