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2. The Relationship Between Bond Prices and Interest Rates - AOL

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   Bond prices and interest rates are closely related and can both be used to forecast economic activity, so investors should at least be aware of the basics: how interest rates affect bond prices ...

3. 5 popular strategies for building a bond portfolio

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   Interest-rate risk: The price of bonds is affected by moves in interest rates. Higher prevailing interest rates make the price of bonds fall , while lower rates increase the price of bonds.

4. Interest rate risk - Wikipedia

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   Interest rate risk is the risk that arises for bond owners from fluctuating interest rates. How much interest rate risk a bond has depends on how sensitive its price is to interest rate changes in the market. The sensitivity depends on two things, the bond's time to maturity, and the coupon rate of the bond. [1]

5. Dirty price - Wikipedia

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   The accrued interest is based on the day count convention, coupon rate, and number of days from the preceding coupon payment date. [2] The clean price more closely reflects changes in value due to issuer risk and changes in the structure of interest rates. Its graph is smoother than that of the dirty price.

6. Corporate bonds: Here are the big risks and rewards - AOL

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   The interest payments on bonds come in two major types: fixed rate and floating rate. With a fixed-rate bond, the interest is paid according to an exact agreed-upon rate, and that’s all the ...

7. Yield curve - Wikipedia

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   Whilst the yield curves built from the bond market use prices only from a specific class of bonds (for instance bonds issued by the UK government) yield curves built from the money market use prices of "cash" from today's LIBOR rates, which determine the "short end" of the curve i.e. for t ≤ 3m, interest rate futures which determine the ...

8. How lower rates from the Fed impact bond investors - AOL

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   Bond ladders allow investors to spread out bond maturities, providing both regular income and protection against interest rate changes. The idea is that parts of the portfolio mature at different ...

9. Inverted yield curve - Wikipedia

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   The inverted yield curve is the contraction phase in the Business cycle or Credit cycle when the federal funds rate and treasury interest rates are high to create a hard or soft landing in the cycle. When the Federal funds rate and interest rates are lowered after the economic contraction (to get price and commodity stabilization) this is the ...