Over the past 20 years, financial institutions have made significant efforts to establish and improve their procedures for interest rate risk management, including using economic models of interest rates and related models of credit risk (Lopez 2001a, b).

Explore what credit risk is, its impact on loans and investments, the role of credit ratings, and real-world examples to mitigate potential financial losses.

The VGIT ETF balances duration risk, offers steady income, and provides low-cost exposure to US Treasuries. Read what investors need to know.

Insurance companies write policies to cover potential risks far into the future. Because the life of these contracts can extend well beyond the 30-year maturities for the longest U.S. Treasuries, it’s difficult to measure the interest rate risk involved.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell moved markets on Wednesday with his comments on the central bank's recent interest rate cut, prompting a sell-off in bonds that could send mortgage rates higher. Powell's remarks followed soon after the first Fed rate ...

The central bank is poised to lower interest rates again on Wednesday despite having only a partial view of how the economy is faring.

Rates have been dropping ahead of the October Federal Reserve meeting, which will conclude today. Average 30-year mortgage rates are now 85 basis points down from where they started the year, according to Freddie Mac.