: Bonds with longer durations (longer time to maturity) are more sensitive to interest rate changes and experience sharper price swings than short-term bonds. Strategic Considerations for Investors
: If you hold a bond and market interest rates go up, your bond's market value decreases. To sell it, you would have to offer it at a discount so its yield matches new, higher-rate bonds. buying bonds interest rates
: While a bond's price fluctuates, its yield (the total return) moves in the same direction as market interest rates. : Bonds with longer durations (longer time to
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