In many ways, bonds are more complex than stocks. Investors use a host of different metrics to evaluate bond investments, and one involves a concept known as duration, which helps an investor ...

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Key rate duration measures a bond's sensitivity to shifts in interest rates at specific maturity points along the yield curve. Unlike traditional duration metrics, which assume parallel interest rate ...

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Modified duration shows bond price sensitivity to yield changes; a 1.859% price change per 1% yield shift. Macauley duration measures average time to receive bond cash flows, key for calculating ...