Two of the primary considerations are probably # The ability of the applicant to pay back the money if the bond is called (surety bonds are not insurance - they are a promise to pay on your behalf, but you must immediately pay the bonding company back). For this, they'll look at your assets, credit, income, etc. It's a lot like applying for a loan, and you'll need to give your broker or agent at least 3 weeks to properly market your bond application & allow the bonding company to underwrite it. # The likelihood of the bond being called. In other words, if it's for construction completion, have you completed all of your prior projects or have you abandoned any?
You want to look at companies that are solid, big, and will not be rocked by the financial tides. Smaller companies will offer higher rates in order to tempt people to go with them, but these are not accurate rates, as bonds are only as safe as the company that's offering them. For this reason, when looking for a baseline idea of the prices, you want to look at the real monoliths.
You can go to the US treasury website and enter the serial number from the face of the bond to look up it's current value.
Yes, you can short a bond. How you do it and not get burned is to look for long periods of rising interest rates--the higher the interest rate gets, the cheaper the bond gets. If you were going to get into shorting bonds, you'd almost have to specialize in it.
Many companies specialize in providing credit report scoring. You may want to look into services that are offline, as you never know who you can trust or not online.
"Fixed rate bonds can be applied for at a person's local bank. That is probably the first place that one should look for a fixed rate bond, but research can be done to find other sources."
Mercury(I) doesn't have metallic bonding. See related link. I'm not sure about other valence ions of mercury. I don't know that having a shiny reflective metallic look is evidence of metallic bonding or not. Somebody please confirm.
You would need to know the chemical makeup of the compound. Ionic bonding occurs between a metal and a non-metal while covalent bonding occurs between non-metals
look for it on the chemistry book, and don't be lazy!Covalent bonding is all about "sharing electrons" so the two elements share electrons (which forms a covalent bond) in order to complete or help complete their octet.
A polar covalent bond, I think, ( not sure about the electronegativity difference and I am too lazy to look it up ) between the nitrogen and the three hydrogen. NH3
A covalent bond. (Covalent bonding is a form of chemical bonding that is characterized by the sharing of pairs of electrons between atoms, or between atoms and other covalent bond)A covalent double bond forms from the sharing of two pairs of electrons (meaning 4 electrons total).
oxygen normally forms a convalent bond with one or two other oxygen atoms. as well as oxygen atoms forming oxygen molecules, oxygen atoms tend to form bonds with most of the other elements to form oxides. oxygen atoms on there own are rare. as for phosphorous.........
Evaluating the quality of a company can be tricky. You should first use word of mouth. Then you should take that advice and go to that specific company and look at the work they can do,and judge for yourself.
A covalent bond is characterized by atoms sharing pairs of electrons. For example: CH4 is a covalent bond. Carbon has 4 valance electrons and hydrogen has 1. Therefore, the electrons will be shared as seen in the Lewis structure of CH4 . Unfortunately, I cannot draw it here, but you can look it up online.
Each companyb providing a service whether online or not has certain terms and conditions. If you want to find out what the T&Cs are for a particular company then the website for that company is a good place to look.
Hydronium dioxide has a bonding angle (between O and the two H's) that is important to many of its special properties. NOW.. go back to your textbook and look up the wonders of the hydrogen bond. JCF
Look at the atoms involved in the bond. Then look at the electronegativity values of the atoms involved. The stronger the en value of the atoms the stronger the bond is and the more "ionic" the bond is.
Various bond rating companies study a company's business. They look for earnings and business prospects. they also see if a company pays its debts on time and how much it already owes. Based on factors like these they assign a rating grade. They usually are a AAA. AA. or A, being the lowest.