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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Relationship of Price and Interest Rate

The basic relationship between the price of a bond and prevailing market interest rates is an inverse relationship. This is actually pretty straightforward. For example, if you have a 6% bond (this means that it pays $60 annually per $1000 of face value) and interest rates jump to 8%, wouldn't you agree that your bond should be worth less now if you were to sell it?

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