You're given coupon payments every six months and then, when the bond matures,you get your money back.

每六个月你会收到一次利息,当债券到期,你可以赎回本金

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Well, in '26, the-- i've shorted the one-period bond and so I have to pay out one dollar, but that's exactly what I wanted to do.

6年 我卖空的一年期债券到期了,我需要偿还一美元,不过这恰是我要做的

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Now what happens is, I now get the maturity of this bond.

现在两年期债券到期了

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If you have a bond with an interest rate of 4.375% -that's not an easy one to divide by two but you would get half of that every six months until maturity.

如果你持有一种利率为4.375%的债券,这个数除以2有点难算,而在债券到期前,每半年你能得到4.375%一半的券息

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Remember, I said I'm doing this because I expect to have a hundred pounds-- I said one dollar-- I'm going to have to pay out a hundred pounds because this one-period bond, worth one hundred pounds principal, is coming due so I have to pay it out.

回想一下,我说过我会这么做,是因为我会得到一百英镑,我口误说成了一美元,我将要偿还的数额是一百英镑,因为这张一年期,一百英镑面值的债券即将到期,于是我不得不将其支付

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If you had a perpetuity, which paid C/2 forever, you already know from the perpetuity formula that the value of that would be C/2 divided by r/2 if r/2 is the discount rate.

如果你有一只永续债券,每半年付息C/2,没有到期日,从永续债券的公式可以知道,债券价格等于C/2除以r/2,r/2为贴现率

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