Interest-Rate Risk Is the Riskiness of an Asset's Returns Due

question 25

Multiple Choice

Interest-rate risk is the riskiness of an asset's returns due to

• A)interest-rate changes.
• B)changes in the coupon rate.
• C)default of the borrower.
• D)changes in the asset's maturity.

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Definitions:

Serial Endosymbiosis

The hypothesis that certain organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts originated as symbiotic prokaryotes that lived inside other free-living prokaryotic cells.

Mitochondria

Organelles found in the cytoplasm of most eukaryotic cells, responsible for producing energy through the process of oxidative phosphorylation.

Diploid

An organism or cell having two sets of chromosomes, typically one set from each parent, denoted as 2n.

Gametes

Mature haploid male or female germ cells which are able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote.