Consider two recent bond issues by Microsoft: both have face values of $1,000 and coupon rates of 10% but one bond (call it the short bond) has five years to maturity and the other, the long bond, has twenty years to maturity. Which bond do you expect to be more sensitive to a change in yields? That is, for a given change in yield which bond (the long or the short) will experience a greater change in price?
◦ The long bond
◦ They are equally sensitive.
◦ The short bond