Treasuries, for instance, are of the highest credit quality, but are also very interest rate sensitive.
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When interest rates rise, the value of (interest rate sensitive) bonds will decline.
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Economist suggests going short on oil and buying interest rate sensitive stocks.
Hardest-hit would be interest-rate sensitive stocks of consumer-goods, financing and auto companies.
The move up in yields will be substantial enough over the next few years that all interest-rate sensitive securities will be affected (utilities, preferred stock, etc).
Fidelity National is certainly sensitive to activity in the residential mortgage market, and as rates on mortgages have come back down from April through mid-May, interest rate sensitive stocks such as the home builders, mortgage lenders and REITs have all rallied.
"Some sectors are booming while others, which are very interest rate-sensitive and sensitive to a high dollar, are really doing it tough, " she says.
Interest rates rose on the news and the best investors at Marketocracy (the m100) responded accordingly by jettisoning interest-rate-sensitive shares out of their portfolios.
The prime beneficiaries will be rate-sensitive companies like banks and property developers, exporters that can use savings from lower overheads to price their products competitively, and labor-intensive companies.
MUMBAI--Indian shares closed higher Thursday after recovering from their early morning losses, as investors made heavy purchases in rate-sensitive bank stocks on expectations of a cut in interest rates, dealers said.
The economy grew steadily through 17 interest rate hikes, arguing that it may turn out to be sensitive to the level of interest rates but was not very sensitive to rate hikes from low levels.
In some countries the suicide rate seemed especially sensitive to economic stress.
Corporate-bond investors want assets that are least sensitive to rate rises, and shorter-dated high-yield bonds are the sweet spot, he said.
The present value of future federal revenues is exquisitely sensitive to the rate of economic growth.
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The average duration in the index is 26 years, which means it is super sensitive to interest rate changes.
Renewed exchange-rate turbulence could reopen a sensitive question: how should exchange rates be aligned in the run-up to eventual union?
The top rated schools sell prestige along with their education and there are still enough Americans and foreigners who can afford to pay the full going rate and are not price sensitive.
Sarah Smith of the University of Bristol and Kimberley Scharf of Warwick University recently carried out a series of experiments for the Treasury to gauge how sensitive higher-rate taxpayers are to changes in tax incentives.
Bank stocks, which are sensitive to interest-rate cycles, have bee among the biggest movers today.
Shares in financial companies, which are particularly sensitive to interest-rate moves, have been hit hard.
This is insane if the goal is GDP growth, because economic growth is most sensitive to the tax rate on corporate income.
And historically it has been less sensitive to interest-rate moves, so in that sense it is not quite like a normal bond.
Take the ten-year Treasury: the ten-year Treasury at a 4% yield is less risky, less sensitive to interest-rate changes than a ten-year Treasury at 2%.
The yields on such instruments were fairly low, making investors very sensitive to any exchange-rate changes.
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Petrol costs less than 5 cents a litre in Venezuela at the official exchange rate, but raising the price is politically sensitive.
The ADB's economists find that trade in parts is much less sensitive to changes in the real exchange rate than trade in finished products.
And the Fed may have concluded that American inflation is less sensitive than it was to changes in the rate of unemployment.
He also said the TSA has "a very high turnover rate" compared with that of flight crews, so sensitive information will migrate away from the government.
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Their hope, of course, is that they can attract price-sensitive, low-maintenance users disgusted with the rate increases from the national players.
Such a swift about-turn would have been more difficult if interest-rate decisions had remained in the hands of a politician, sensitive to the opinion polls.
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