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21Interest Rate Risk — The risk that an investment s value will change due to a change in the absolute level of interest rates, in the spread between two rates, in the shape of the yield curve or in any other interest rate relationship. Such changes usually affect… …
22Interest Rate Differential - IRD — A differential measuring the gap in interest rates between two similar interest bearing assets. Traders in the foreign exchange market use interest rate differentials (IRD) when pricing forward exchange rates. Based on the interest rate parity, a …
23Interest Rate Sensitivity — A measure of how much the price of a fixed income asset will fluctuate as a result of changes in the interest rate environment. Securities that are more sensitive will have greater price fluctuations than those with less sensitivity. This type of …
24Interest risk — The risk that the market value of the bank is exposed to fluctuations in interest rates. This risk is quantified by the interest risk position/mismatch/gap. See also Interest risk. Related reports are: • Overall mismatch. • Mismatch per book. • …
25Interest Sensitive Stock — Any stock with a price that is extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates. Interest sensitive stocks are shares that will see large price changes relative to small movements in the risk free rate. Stocks with large betas, which gauge a… …
26Market Segmentation Theory — A modern theory pertaining to interest rates stipulating that there is no necessary relationship between long and short term interest rates. Furthermore, short and long term markets fall into two different categories. Therefore, the yield curve… …
27Market Discount — The difference between the face value of a bond issued at par and the current below par market price, plus any original issue discount. Market discounts occur when interest rates rise, thus causing bond prices in the secondary market to fall.… …
28interest rate futures — Futures contracts traded on long term and short term financial instruments: U.S. Treasury bills and bonds and Eurodollar Time Deposits. More recently, futures contracts have developed for German, Italian, and Japanese government bonds, to name a… …
29Open market operations — (also known as OMO) is the buying and selling of government bonds on the open market by a central bank. It is the primary means of implementing monetary policy by a central bank. The usual aim of open market operations is to control the short… …
30Risk-free interest rate — The risk free interest rate is the interest rate that it is assumed can be obtained by investing in financial instruments with no default risk. However, the financial instrument can carry other types of risk, e.g. market risk (the risk of changes …
