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What are the risks associated with owning a bond and What happens in stock market and bond market when interest rates rise?
Risks associated with bonds are
1. Default Risk : There is a chance that issuer might not be able
to pay coupon or face value at end of maturity due to business
problems. This might cause loss of money. This is default
risk.
2. Interest Risk: If the interest rises then the bond price falls
and the buyer of the bond will be at loss if it sells before
maturity. If the interest rate falls then selling it at maturity
might be at loss as price of bond will be highr.
3. Inflation risk: Higher inflation deceases the real return of the
bond. The longer the duration of bond higher the inflation
risk.
4. Market Risk: There is a chnace that the interest rate and bond
prices are affect by the economic conditions of the country.
When interest rate rises stock market falls because the loan rate
and bond rates will be higher leading to low capital
expenditure.
Increase in interest rate decreases the bond price as discounting
factor of coupon and par value increases.
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