-Bonds: trái phiếu – legal obligation/mandatory

- issue/ purchase bonds

- tax-deductible: bonds are counted as expenditure

- callable: bonds that can be paid before the maturity date

- go under = insolvent = go bankrupt

- funds = money

- market makers = brokerage company

- rate of income from a security = yield

- British gov bonds = gilts

- plunge into slump: recession

- on offer