The phrase "a long term bond" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts to refer to a bond that has a longer maturity period, typically more than ten years.
Example: "Investors often prefer a long term bond for its stability and predictable interest payments over time."
Alternatives: "a long-duration bond" or "a long-range bond".
The state would then sell a long term bond, with interest funded by the guaranteed revenue stream.
Keeping open lines of communication forms a long term bond of honesty and trust, important in both biz and kids.
Catherine and Heathcliff are all very nice and dandy, but the reader is unable to form a long term bond with them since they are only in one concise novel.
If you had the misfortune to buy a long-term bond fund a year ago, it's under water now.
The money to buy and develop the land, more than $30 million, would be financed with a long-term bond.
German government officials tried to play down the scale of the abortive Bund auction, pointing to the lowest rate – 1.98% – ever recorded for such a long-term bond.
We figure that for every 1percentt change in interest rates, a long-term bond fluctuates 10percentt in the opposite direction".
It's not a big deal over one or two years, but if you hold a long-term bond and inflation takes off, the present value of the security will plummet.
Second, firms failed to match the risk profile of their assets (which often consisted mainly of equities) with that of their liabilities, which are equivalent to a long-term bond.
According to bond specialists, for even a financially strong company, a long-term bond downgraded one grade, from AA to A, would fall 5to6percentent in market value, and a bond that went from a single-A investment rating to a single-B speculative rating would lose 15 to 20percentt of its value.
Moody's, a ratings agency, will in future use a long-term bond yield to discount American public-pension schemes, resulting in much larger liabilities than before.Even if you use the expected-return methodology, the discount rate used by public-sector pension funds should fall.
