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Maturity Date

  

Categories: Bonds

See: Maturity. It's the date the bond comes due or matures and then pays back the principal that was promised to be paid back in the first place.

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Well it's just the date when a debt becomes do

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You buy a thousand dollar bond with a maturity date

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of may thirty one twenty twenty five Also what happens

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on may thirty one twenty twenty five Well that's the

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date you'll get your grand back and you'll have the

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interest for that period as well So if you had

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a six percent bond on that last payment may thirty

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one twenty twenty five trivia question how much would you

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get back Yes ah thousand dollar principle You'd get returned

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but you'd also get what What yes the final payment

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year six percent sixty dollars a year You get that

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