When professional investors discuss the credit market, a term that often arises is duration, which is used to measure the sensitivity of a bond’s trading price to changes in interest rates ...

Perpetual bonds have no maturity date, allowing them to pay interest indefinitely, making them appealing for long-term income. They come in different types, such as government and corporate bonds, ...

Key rate duration measures a bond's sensitivity to shifts in interest rates at specific maturity points along the yield curve ...

A version of this article was published in the November 2015 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. Flaw of Averages Duration, by itself, is a crude ...

MBS went through an interesting Employment Friday. I know it’s hard to remember back after a long weekend (especially for N.E. fans), but the bond market sold off pretty substantially on Friday after ...

Interest rates and bond prices exhibit an inverse relationship: when interest rates increase, bond prices decrease, and when rates decrease, bond prices increase. This occurs because newly issued ...

The new era of higher interest rates has reignited a long-smoldering Wall Street debate: Is it better for ordinary investors to buy individual bonds outright? Or shares of bond mutual funds? During ...

You can check the value of your savings bond through the TreasuryDirect website. Even if you have paper savings bonds, you can check your value online, as long as you have the issue date, bond series ...