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Managing Interest Rate Risk in an Income-Oriented Portfolio
AB Analytical Services  Sep 16  Comment 
This past week delivered investors a lesson that has been taught over and over since public capital markets began: Buy the rumor, sell the news. Everyone knew QE3 (the third major "quantitative easing" program) was likely to be formalized after...
Australasian Dollars weaker on interest rate risk
FX Street  May 8  Comment 
Today's Highlights EU elections raise Eurozone risks Sterling strengthens on safe haven buying... For more information, read our latest forex news and reports.
Replace Interest Rate Risk With Credit Risk
TheStreet.com  Mar 14  Comment 
Jeff Rosenberg, Chief Investment Strategist for Fixed Income at BlackRock, explains why credit risk is the best bet for 2012.
Tackle interest rate risk in debt products
The Times of India  Dec 12  Comment 
Actively track market events and act on them, or invest in a debt fund and let the manager take care of it.
How To Get More Diversification With Less Interest Rate Risk
Forbes  Jun 3  Comment 
Ten-year Treasury notes may not be giving you enough comparative diversification benefits to justify their potential downside risk. Though long-term Treasuries have historically had low correlation coefficients with large-cap stocks,...
Interest Rate Risk and the Financial System
FX Street  Feb 17  Comment 
Banks’ Balance Sheet Effects and Swap Usage In the aggregate, we foresee no major disruptions to... For more information, read our latest forex news and reports.
How to Manage Interest Rate Risk With ETFs
Penny Stock DD  Dec 9  Comment 
Interest rate risk doesn’t seem like much of a risk at all these days, given how low they’ve been for the last year-plus. Soon, though, rates will rise and you won’t want to get caught holding the bag. The total value of a simple...




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Interest rate risk is the risk (variability in value) borne by an interest-bearing asset, such as a loan or a bond, due to variability of interest rates. In general, as rates rise, the price of a fixed rate bond will fall, and vice versa. Interest rate risk is commonly measured by the bond's duration.

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