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Explain What Positioning Is and How to Approach a Positioning

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Explain what positioning is and how to approach a positioning problem.


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Nominal Interest Rates

Interest rates that have not been adjusted for inflation, reflecting the rate of interest paid by borrowers or earned by investors.

Pure Discount Securities

Financial instruments that are sold at a discount from their face value and pay no interest until maturity, such as zero-coupon bonds.

Clean Price

The price of a bond excluding any interest that has accrued since issue or during the last coupon payment.

Dirty Price

The price of a bond that includes accrued interest, in contrast to the clean price which excludes it.

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