In finance, the dirty price is the price of a bond including any interest that has accrued since issue or the most recent coupon payment. This is to be compared with the clean price, which is the price of a bond excluding the accrued interest.
Dirty Price = Clean Price + Accrued Interest
When bond prices are quoted on a Bloomberg Terminal or Reuters they are quoted using the clean price. The clean price is mostly quoted in the US bond markets. Given the quotes, traders tend to think of bonds in terms of their clean prices. The dirty price is mostly quoted in the European bond markets.
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Famous quotes containing the words dirty and/or price:
“I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.”
—Jules Furthman (1888–1960)