Session 14: Fixed Income: Valuation Concepts Reading 55: Term Structure and Volatility of Interest Rates
LOS b: Describe the factors that drive U.S. Treasury security returns, and evaluate the importance of each factor.
Change in the which of the following factors has been observed to be the most important driving force for Treasury returns?
A) |
Slope of the yield curve. | |
B) |
Level of interest rates. | |
C) |
Coupon of Treasury securities. | |
In regressions, changes in the level of the interest rate have been shown to explain about 90% of the Treasury return variance. |