How does market risk effect stocks? How does interest rate risk effect bonds?
Market risks are systematic risks which affects all the stocks
in the economy. Such Risks cannot be diversified away.Market Risk
like interest rate, inflation,etc affect the stock prices of
companies. Higher the interest rate ,higher the inflation,etc lower
the price of stock.Another measure of market risk is beta. Beta
represents the correlation of market with returns of stock.Higher
the market risk higher is the beta of company and hence required
rate of stocks of the stocks will increase. This decreases the
price of stock.
Interest rate affect the prices of bond inversely.Higher interest
rate decreases the value of bond. Moreover long term bonds have
higher the interest rate risk and short term bonds have lower the
interest rate risk.
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