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A bond is trading at 60 cents on the dollar. What does that tell you, and what's the difference between its current yield and yield to maturity?

Model answer

A price of 60 says the market has serious doubts about full repayment — it's pricing meaningful default risk and implicitly handicapping recovery value, and at deep discounts the bond starts trading…

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