Answer: b. For a bond of any maturity, a 1.0 percentage point increase in the market interest rate (rd) causes a larger dollar capital loss than the capital gain stemming from a 1.0 percentage point decrease in the interest rate
Explanation:
This is very true. If market rates reduce by 1.0%, there is a larger drop in the price of a bond than the amount a bond gains in price if interest rates increase by that same 1.0%.
This is why the graph that relates bond prices to yield is concave and I attached a graph as proof.
Notice how the fall in price is greater when interest rate increases.
