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Historically, the Cocos plate boundary produced the 1985 Michoacan earthquake of magnitude Mw Richter scale. It destroyed hundreds of buildings and caused thousand of deaths in Mexico City and other parts of the country. It is considered the most damaging earthquake in the history of Mexico City. The Mexican insurance industry officials estimated payouts of four billion dollars. In the last decades, other earthquakes have reached the magnitude Mw Richter scale. For earthquakes, the Mexican insurance market has traditionally been highly regulated, with limited protection provided to homeowners and reinsurance by the government. Today, after the occurrence of an earthquake, the reconstruction can be financed by transferring the. | Chapter 10 McGraw-Hill Irwin Bond Prices and Yields Copyright 2008 by The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. All rights reserved. Bond Prices and Yields Our goal in this chapter is to understand the relationship between bond prices and yields. In addition we will examine some fundamental tools that fixed-income portfolio managers use when they assess bond risk. 10-2 Bond Basics I. A Straight bond is an IOU that obligates the issuer of the bond to pay the holder of the bond - A fixed sum of money called the principal par value or face value at the bond s maturity and sometimes - Constant periodic interest payments called coupons during the life of the bond . Treasury bonds are straight bonds. Special features may be attached - Convertible bonds - Callable bonds - Putable bonds .