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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Veale, Stuart R.

The investor’s guidebook to fixed income investments: bond markets: a handbook for issuers and investors / Stuart R. Veale.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-7352-0531-4 (pbk)

1. Finance, Personal. 2. Investments. 3. Bonds. 4. Options (Finance) I. Title.

HG179.V43 2013

332.63'23 2013032623

First edition: December 2013

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