The declaration date is when a company announces its next dividend payment; it's also an option's expiration date. Once a dividend is declared, it becomes the company's legal responsibility to ...

Coupon bonds are debt obligations that provide semiannual interest payments, often sold anonymously without record of purchase. While once common, coupon bonds are now rare due to the prevalence of ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...