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Introduction:
A bond is a security that creates an obligation on the issuer to make specified payments to the holder for a given period of time. The face
FINRA is a Financial Industrial regulatory Authority who regulates the securities brokers and the firms in order to protect the interest of the investors.
To Discuss:
The FINRA operates the TRACE (Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine) system which reports over-the-counter secondary market trades of fixed-income securities. Find the TRACE Fact Book atwww.finra.org/trace/trace-book.
a. For each of the last three years, find the data tables, locate the table with information on corporate bond issues, excluding convertible bonds and calculate the percentage of bond that were publicly traded and the percentage that were privately traded.
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