Interest-Rate Risk Can Best Be Characterized as the Risk That

question 34

Multiple Choice

Interest-rate risk can best be characterized as the risk that

• A) you could have earned a higher interest rate if you waited to purchase a bond.
• B) fluctuations in the price of a financial asset in response to changes in market interest rates.
• C) you could have gotten a lower interest rate if you waited to lock in a mortgage.
• D) short-term interest rates may exceed long-term interest rates.

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