Peeing in a trash can instead of walking 50 feet to the bathroom is not funny. Raiding you neighborâs cooler is not funny. Building an 8 foot tall bonfire is not funny. Asking if you can wear the park rangerâs hat is not funny. Guess whose job it is to tell them that they are not funny: the park ranger.
The main difference between yields and interest rates is that each term refers to different financial instruments. Yield commonly refers to the dividend, interest or return the investor receives from a security like a stock or bond, and is usually reported as an annual figure.
As a bond's price increases, its yield to maturity falls. For example, if you purchased a bond with a par (face) value of $100, and a 10 percent annual coupon rate, its yield would be the coupon rate divided by the par value (10/100 = 0.10), or 10 percent.If the bond price fell to $90, the yield would become (10/90 = 0.11) or 11 percent.t's important to understand that bonds and interest rates have an inverse relationship, meaning that when interest rates go up, existing bond prices go down, and when interest rates are low, bond prices are high.