Interest rate risk: Also known as market risk, this refers to changes
in bond prices due to interest rate changes.
It measures the percentage change
in bond prices due to a one - time across - the - board 1 % inverse change in interest rates.
Not exact matches
The company's senior unsecured
bonds due in 2018 last traded Thursday at 5.25 cents on the dollar, down from 72 cents the week before the bankruptcy filing, according to Trace
bond -
price data.
Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively»
priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.
«The importance of the wealth - saving relation goes beyond the case usually designated by the Pigou effect, viz., beyond the effect of an increase
in the real value of cash balances and government
bonds due to falling
prices.
«The energy sector posted stronger returns
in September
due to a rebound
in oil
prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the
bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time
in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.
At present, investors have no reasonable incentive at all to «lock
in» the prospective returns implied by current
prices of stocks or long - term
bonds (though we suspect that 10 - year Treasuries may benefit over a short horizon
due to continued economic risks and still - unresolved debt concerns
in Europe, which has already entered an economic downturn).
Rather, the increase
in spreads appears to reflect both tightness
in the Commonwealth Government
bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate
bonds are
priced) as companies have sought to lock
in fixed - rate borrowings
due to expected increases
in interest rates.
Rising rates result
in immediate
bond price declines, but long - term returns are actually enhanced
due to the ability to reinvest at higher rates.
Because
bonds are traded
in the securities markets, there is always the chance that your
bonds can lose favor and drop
in price due to market risk.
We know
in which direction our
bond's
price will move
due to changes
in market rates.
Due to their fixed dividend rate, they often behave like
bonds in terms of
pricing and portfolio diversification.
The
pricing of
bonds, however, has become more transparent
in recent years
due to industry regulation and partnerships.
Some of the
bonds that come
due in the next 12 months were trading at
prices that offered hearty investors a 25 % to 35 % yield, one junk
bond manager told us.
The market
price of a tradable
bond will be influenced, amongst other factors, by the amounts, currency and timing of the interest payments and capital repayment
due, the quality of the
bond, and the available redemption yield of other comparable
bonds which can be traded
in the markets.
Junk
bonds involve a greater risk of default or
price changes
due to changes
in the issuer's credit quality.
Especially when corporate
bond markets are a mess, municipal
bonds are suffering under the weight of Puerto Rico's problem, Europe's continued woes, instability
in the Middle East, a stalled out stock market and oil
prices drop
due to oversupply.
If a higher yield to maturity is
due to higher credit risk, on the other hand, then its interest rate risk will have less influence
in the
bond's overall
pricing.
Interest rate risk is the risk of changes
in a
bond's
price due to changes
in prevailing interest rates.
Stock Markets and the market dealing
in corporate and government
bonds are affected by falling and rising
prices due to irregular bearish and bullish periods.
First, if the firm is covered by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), and most are, the
bond is protected against loss — that is, against physical loss of the certificate — not against a decline
in price due to market conditions.
If for example, banks were having trouble floating
bonds because the spread of corporate
bonds was too high versus government
bonds (yields were very high because
prices are low
due to little demand to own these bank issued
bonds) they could buy these types of
bonds to get money flowing
in this space if the central bank so desired.
b)
Bond Price Decline due to Rising Interest Rates: Eventually, the bond prices will start falling again (due to rising interest rates) and cause a serious decline in Tom's holdi
Bond Price Decline
due to Rising Interest Rates: Eventually, the
bond prices will start falling again (due to rising interest rates) and cause a serious decline in Tom's holdi
bond prices will start falling again (
due to rising interest rates) and cause a serious decline
in Tom's holdings.
It is important to be aware that a big jump
in interest rates could be quite painful for
bond investors
due to a combination of falling
bond prices, inflation, and taxes.
The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like
bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments
due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change)
in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise
prices accordingly!
While we can set up similar reinvestment program for
bonds, the swings
in bond prices are not as significant
due to the fact that
bonds offer greater investment security.
The risk for
bond investors that the issuer will default on its obligation (default risk) or that the
bond value will decline and / or that the
bond price performance will compare unfavorably to other
bonds against which the investment is compared
due either to perceived increase
in the risk that an issuer will default (credit spread risk) or that a company's credit rating will be lowered (downgrade risk).
This weeks weakness is
due to a rally
in crude oil
prices, a pickup
in government
bond yields as inflation rises and geo - political uneasiness around the globe.
Yields on Japanese government
bonds due in five years today rose the most since 1999 after consumer
prices surged 1.2 percent
in March from a year earlier.
The three main risks that they carry are — credit risk where the
bond issuer fails to make timely interest payments and repay the principal amount on maturity; liquidity risk where the fund manager is not able to sell his paper
due to lack of demand for a particular security and; interest rate risk where a change
in interest rate changes the
price of the
bond.
Some of the
bonds that come
due in the next 12 months were trading at
prices that offered hearty investors a 25 % to 35 % yield, one junk
bond manager told -LSB-...]