This is why bond prices fall when interest rates rise, and why bond prices rise when interest rates fall.

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Mortgages might automatically give customers the benefits of refinancing when interest rates fall, saving them the expense and legal hassle of switching to a different company.

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The Fed has thereby fostered the impression that it will slash interest rates when share prices fall sharply, but not increase rates when they shoot up.

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That's the surprising question being publicly asked by central bankers in Poland, while much of the rest of Europe is trying to figure out when interest rates will actually fall.

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And only one in five knew that when interest rates rise, bond prices fall.

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When interest rates rise, bond prices fall.

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Duration measures the amount of time until a bond matures, and longer-duration bonds fall harder when interest rates rise.

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If price inflation starts to fall towards zero at a time when interest rates are already low, drastic action might be needed to head off deflation.

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First, it would change the widespread market perception that the Fed responds to asset prices asymmetrically, cutting interest rates if share prices fall sharply but never raising them when share prices climb.

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