Types of bonds
Bonds are debt securities in which a borrower promises to pay a specified interest rate and principal at a future date.
1. Which of the following statements about Treasury bonds is the most accurate?
A. Treasury bonds are not completely riskless, since their prices will decline when interest rates rise.
B. Treasury bonds are completely riskless.
C. Treasury bonds have a very small amount of default risk, so they are not completely riskless.
Based on the information given in the following statement, answer the questions that follow:
New York City issued a general obligation bond for a canal in 1812. It was the first formal debt instrument with a fixed repayment schedule issued by a city.
2. Who is the issuer of the bonds?
A. The New York City government
B. Bank of New York
C. Federal Reserve Bank of New York
3. What type of bonds are these?
A. Treasury bonds
B. Municipal bonds
C. Corporate bonds
4. Which of the following statements is true about bonds?
A. An investor from Kansas that invests in a municipal bond issued by the State of Kansas will pay neither state nor federal taxes on the bond’s coupon payments.
B. An investor from Kansas that invests in a municipal bond issued by the State of Kansas will pay federal—but not state—taxes on the bond’s coupon payments.
5. Which of the following types of bonds has the least default risk?
A. Corporate bonds
B. Treasury bonds
C. Municipal bonds

4. A. An investor from Kansas that invests in a municipal bond issued by the State of Kansas will pay neither state nor federal taxes on the bond’s coupon payments

5. B. Treasury bonds

Explanation:

1. Treasury Bonds are known as the safest bonds in the world and so are generally considered risk-less. However this is not so as they still fall victim to Interest rate risk which is the risk that their prices will decline when interest rates rise because bond prices are inversely related to price.

2. The City of New York issued to bonds in question so it is a New York City Government bond.

3. Municipal Bonds are issued by a state, county or a municipality so the above is a Municipal bond as it was issued by the City of New York.

4. Municipal Bonds attract no Federal taxes and when buying a Municipal bond as a resident of the Municipality you are in, you will.not get charged the Municipal taxes either on the bond coupon payments.

5. Default risk is the risk that the issuer will not pay back. US Treasury Bonds are known as the safest in the world and have not been defaulted on in over a century. They therefore have the lowest default risk.