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### What are some of the best textbooks on Fixed Income securities?

If I were to recommend one, it would be: Bruce Tuckman's Fixed Income Securities. This is by far my absolute favorite. It is extremely well written and discusses complex concepts in very easy-to-...
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### Do we use the Nelson-Siegel model to calculate the yield curve?

In the beginning, we had a plot of yields of individual bonds against time to maturity, the crudest form of "yield curve." Years later, people began hand-drawing a smoothed line through these yields ...
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### Determine the carry of a treasury bond futures contract?

Based on the your comments, I believe the issue lies with what you consider to be "carry." The reality is that there's no consensus. So let's take mini steps. We'll start with what rates guys ...
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### What is a central bank's shadow rate

It looks like it's referring to Wu and Xia (2016) shadow rates. Some more media coverage is here. The core idea of a shadow rate goes back at least to Fischer Black. Black (1995) Fischer Black's ...
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### What is a central bank's shadow rate

The shadow rate is what the interest rate would be if money did not behave like an option. The concept was created by Fischer Black and his insight was that money acts like an option. Someone with a ...

### Excel YIELD function equivalent in python Quantlib

Your question is more or less answered in How to calculate bond yield in QuantLib - Python. Once you've built the fixed-rate bond object (as in the post you linked) you can call ...
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### QuantLib returns slightly different bondYield when backtested

I would start by saying that yes, this is an acceptable precision. However, the reason you are not getting the same result is because, by default, QuantLib has ...
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### Why is the treasury yield on Yahoo finance different from that on U.S. Department of Treasury?

It's actually written on the treasury page Negative Yields and Nominal Constant Maturity Treasury Series Rates (CMTs): At times, financial market conditions, in conjunction with extraordinary ...
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### What does the word "affine" mean in affine term structure models?

According to Monika Piazzesi: ...
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### How to compute par yield from zero rate curve?

For simplicity, let us assume continuously compounded zero rates and periodically compounded par yields. If you have to work with continuous rates, you may adapt the formulas accordingly. Using the ...
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### Hull's book par yield example

c is the coupon of the bond, so it is paid semiannually. You can see this from the LHS of the first equation, which is the sum of present values of the coupons and principal. The 6.87 and the 6.75 ...
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### How to compute the yield on the Ultra-Bond Treasury Futures

I think you have a little misunderstanding about treasury futures. I would get this book: http://www.amazon.com/Treasury-Bond-Basis-Depth-Arbitrageurs/dp/0071456104?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=...
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### Floating-rate bond

While you may be able to arrive at some answer to this question empirically with a bit of research, theoretically I don't know if there is a formulaic/mathematical way to extract expectations of ...
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### Interest rate vs bond yield

The Federal Funds rate is an overnight rate. It may move differently from longer term rates such as the yield on 10yr notes. Possible reasons why 10yr yields might move down when the Fed raises the ...
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### What are some of the best textbooks on Fixed Income securities?

The Fixed-Income bible is definitely this one: Damiano Brigo, Fabio Mercurio. Interest Rate Models - Theory and Practice It is a 1,007-pager covering a large range of topics including: Basic ...
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### Simulating a path of bond yields by Monte Carlo (Python)

I do not know Python but this is what I would do in Excel (I am assuming you are familiar with Excel and can then translate the steps into Python: Pick a time series of Bond Yields which has $n$ ...
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### What's the logic behind 3-10 UST yield inversion predicting recession?

When the market enters a risk-off period the investors proceed to a rotation between more risk assets (commodities, equities etc...) to the less risky ones. At this point there is just a lot of supply/...
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### Value of a 30 year bond using the Yield curve

The value of the bond would be the first case, because you have to discount each cashflow with the relevant spot rate for that payment date. Although, because rates are normally expressed in annual ...
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