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Should I Invest in Zero Coupon Bonds? Learn more about these unusual investments. Dan Caplinger ( TMFGalagan ) Mar 24, 2018 at 11:46AM Most people think of  bonds  as being appropriate for those who need regular current income without a huge amount of risk. Yet some bonds are structured specifically  not  to pay income currently. The special ways in which these zero coupon bonds work can make them appropriate for very different uses than the typical fixed-income security. What is a zero coupon bond? With most bonds, the issuer accepts an up-front payment from investors in exchange for promising to pay interest payments at regular intervals and then repay the principal at maturity. For instance, a 10-year Treasury bond might have a coupon rate of 3%, meaning that each $1,000 face-value bond will make interest payments totaling $30. For Treasuries, that would come in two semiannual payments of $15 each, but the frequency with which issuers pa...

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Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonchapman/2018/04/30/lets-get-fiscal-what-the-options-market-is-projecting-for-apple-over-earnings/#fdacf8861817 After the market close on tomorrow, Apple Inc. is set to announce their Q2 earnings report. As of today, the average analyst earnings estimate for the quarter is $2.71 a share. It's not unusual to see a stock beat earnings and see the price decline or vice versa. For people that own the stock, the question isn't always whether the earnings announcement is positive or negative, but rather the market's reaction to the news. In other words, how much is Apple going to move? One of the great features of options and how they are priced is that expected movement is reflected or "implied" in the price. Information related to the strike price, the stock price and the time to expiration are already given. Therefore, the amount of premium that is variable due to supply and dema...