Given a Bond with a Duration Measure of 2 and a Convexity

question 20

True/False

Given a bond with a duration measure of 2 and a convexity measure of 3.5,then the approximate percentage change in price predicted from a proportional change in 1 plus the yield of 0.005 (i.e.(1 + y))is 0.991%.

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