LINKS TO GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT BONDS:

Some may need to learn more about investing in bonds and bond funds, so I gathered together some links for further reading.  The first links come from investinginbonds.com:

Rising Rates and Your Investments

Risks of Investing in Bonds

Rating Changes and Your Investments

Corporate Bankruptcy & Your Investment

Understanding Interest-Rate Risk

Understanding Credit Risk

Understanding Yields

Factors That Affect the Price of Fixed-Income Securities

TIPS: Opportunities and Risks

Bond Investment Strategies

Is interest rate risk greater for long-term bonds than short-term bonds?

Why do interest rates tend to have an inverse relationship with bond prices?

Advanced Bond Concepts: Duration

Bonds vs. Bond Funds - Education Center - Yahoo! Finance

Bond Ladders vs. Layering with Bond Funds - Seeking Alpha

The Vanguard Group Viewpoint DiscussionBond Funds: Treadmill to Oblivion? March 18, 1999FINRA - Mutual Funds

Interest rate risk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaBond duration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Advanced Bond Concepts: Yield and Bond Price