Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence earned her the first Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a woman. Published in 1920 but set in 1870s New York, the novel explores the labyrinth of high society in America's Gilded Age. The novel depicts the doomed marriage of Newland Archer and May Welland.
You Sell Your Bond Before It Matures & Interest Rates have gone down. You buy a 10 year U.S. Treasury Note with a face value of $1,000 and an interest rate of 4.26%. If you sell your bond before it matures and interest rates have dropped 2%, you will receive $1,118.54 (plus any interest paid before the sale).
Series EE Savings Bonds issued May 1, 1995 through April 30, 1997, earn interest based on market yields for Treasury securities. Each May 1 and November 1, Treasury announces two Savings Bond rates. The Short-Term Rate is applied to bonds for the first five years they are held. The Long-Term Rate is applied to bonds from five years through 17 years. Bonds will continue to earn interest from 17 years through 30 years at the rates then in effect.