Duration measures the amount of time until a bond matures, and longer-duration bonds fall harder when interest rates rise.
So negotiators on both sides are legitimately competing in an arena quite apart from, and longer in duration than the players on the field or court.
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Sales, marketing, advertising and other customer-acquisition costs are lower, due to the longer duration of their relationships and their higher propensity to respond to offers or seek out additional products and services.
This is especially true for longer duration bonds and bond funds.
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Shortening the duration of your bond portfolio means you receive cash sooner than longer duration bonds and therefore you can reinvest that cash sooner at higher interest rates in an inflationary environment.
Through sponsorships and spokesmen, the Lilly-Icos team hopes to link its drug to longer duration, speed of action and athletic prowess.
But Morningstar and other research firms caution that anyone planning to hang on to Facebook for a longer duration might want to step back from that frenzy and give the deal some thought.
And yet the monarchy survives, and will continue to do for at least the duration of Queen Elizabeth's reign and possibly even longer.
This kind of doublespeak became more and more troubling, and my career came to an end over a job involving revising a manuscript supporting the use of a drug for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), with a duration of action that fell between that of shorter- and longer-acting formulations.
And so actually, the same bond that is at 4% has a longer duration than the same bond at 2%.
O'NEILL: The president said from the very beginning in all that we do we should put compassion first and it's a compassionate thing to recognize that people may have a longer duration of unemployment.
The picture and sound quality of Beta was superior to VHS, Betaphiles say, although VHS tapes had a longer duration.
All things equal, for typical bonds the longer the maturity the higher the duration (or price volatility from interest rate movements), and the smaller the coupon the higher the interest rate risk.
But look at any of these charts and they show structural unemployment at an all-time high, with the situation getting much worse the longer the duration of unemployment.
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Meanwhile, the number of people unemployed for six months or longer went up by 89, 000 people this month, to 4.8 million, and the average duration of unemployment also rose, to 36.9 weeks from 35.3 weeks.
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