An array of bond information is available in the Market Data section of the FINRA Web site. The section provides data on equities, options, mutual funds and a wide range of bonds—corporate, municipal, Treasury and agency bonds. It offers a full profile for every exchange-listed company, including company description, recent news stories and Securities and Exchange Commission filings, and an interactive list of domestic securities the company issues. In addition, the site includes U.S. Treasury Benchmark yields, market news, an economic calendar and other information indicating current market conditions. You can find all of this information at www.FINRA.org/marketdata.
Using FINRA's Bond Market Data
The Bonds section of FINRA's Market Data brings individual investors much-needed transparency (visible pricing) on corporate and other bond market transactions by providing investors with a means of easily obtaining market information. The Web content contains the price and other information from executed transactions in investment grade, non-investment grade and convertible corporate bonds as reported to TRACE, as well as bond market data for municipal, Treasury and Agency bonds. In addition, basic descriptive information and credit ratings on individual bonds are available.
Clicking on the Bonds link from the Market Data section takes you to a section devoted specifically to bond information. Here, you can quickly search for bonds by bond type, symbol, coupon, yield and maturity.
In addition, the area provides a graphic charting Bond Yield and Performance At-A-Glance, including yield curves and rate information.
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Five Good Reasons to Use FINRA's Bond Market Data:
- You have access to a broad database of bonds—a database that contains far more bonds than those a broker may recommend from his firm's inventory.
- You can search a bond by criteria you select—such as maturity date, rating, and industry category.
- You can compare the pricing and bond information you find here with information you receive from your broker.
- You can create and track a bond portfolio to evaluate performance.
- You can familiarize yourself with bond pricing and terminology so that you are better prepared to talk about bonds with a securities industry professional.
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