Bonds

Most of the time a U.S. investor is better off buying bond mutual funds rather than individual bonds, IMO. He will almost always be better off not trying to buy individual foreign bonds. For one thing, the secondary market in bonds, unlike that in stocks, is heavily geared towards institutions, and an individual trading small amounts is likely to pay a higher bid-ask spread.

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I could be wrong, but I don't think there is such a web site. Even from my broker I have to call them to get the pricing informaiton.

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Barrons has a large bond listing in their weekly newspaper. I dont know if all of this is online in their subscription web-site.

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That's too bad. Does anyone remember "coupon clipping", as in taking a bond interest coupon to the bank to deposit it, after cutting it off a printed corporate bond?

-Mark Bole

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