Bonds and stocks serve different purposes to the investor, and ideally you should buy both.
Advantage of investment-grade bonds: the issuer is committed to paying you a stated amount of money on a stated date. The disadvantage is your return is limited to the agreed-on amount.
Advantage of stocks: potentially unlimited return on your investment. The disadvantage is there are no guaranteed returns with stocks; you could potentially lose everything you invested in them.
Speculative-grade bonds, or "junk bonds," have a risk/reward system more like stocks than investment-grade bonds.
Foreign Exchange (Forex) buys and sells currencies, most of which include the U.S. dollar. Because they support OTC (over the counter) you are able to use stocks and bonds.
this is a mutual fund
stocks are stocks and bonds are bonds . flatout -ashes
They do in fact issue stocks and bonds.
Broker
Stocks.
a stock broker
bonds
When the Fed buys government bonds, the reserves of the banking system
A stock exchange is a place where stocks are traded. Stocks are shares of a company. Bonds are like a loan to a company.
A person who buys stocks in a company to own part of
When a company issues bonds, yes. Stocks, no.