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).
U.S. Treasury securities include short-term, intermediate-term and long-term securities. Treasury bills, commonly referred to as T-bills, are short-term securities that mature in 52 weeks or less. Treasury notes, or T-notes, are intermediate-term securities that have maturities of between two and 10 years. Treasury bonds are long-term government securities with maturities of 30 years.