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).
treasury note (T-note) Medium-term (maturity one to ten years) fixed interest rate debt security issued by a national (federal) government and backed by its full faith and credit. Next to treasury bills (maturity less than one year), T-notes are the safest form of marketable investment with an active secondary market, and usually pay semi-annual interest.