Discover how bond prices and yields interact and what influences these fluctuations. Explore key factors affecting bond values and their implications for investors.

Rising interest rates have increased the long-term expected dividends and returns of most bonds and bond funds. There is a simple way to estimate the long-term expected returns of these securities, ...

A version of this article was published in the November 2015 issue of Morningstar ETFInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of ETFInvestor here. Flaw of Averages Duration, by itself, is a crude ...

Interest rates have skyrocketed YTD, leading to wild swings in bond fund yields. Yields can be measured in several different ways too, which further complicates matters. Thought an article looking at ...

A humped yield curve is a relatively rare type of yield curve that results when the interest rates on medium-term fixed income securities are higher than the rates of both long and short-term ...