Duration is…

August 5th, 2009

Duration is a measurement of how sensitive the price of a bond is to changes in interest rate. A bond with a higher duration would change in price more than a bond with lower duration given the same change in interest rate. The higher the duration, the more you can either gain or lose on the market price of the bond – depending on whether the interest rate increases or decreases.

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