Interest rates and the price of old or existing bonds are Group of answer choices There is not enough information to answer the question. sometimes directly related and sometimes inversely related. independent of each other. inversely related. directly related.

inversely related.

Explanation:

A bond can be defined as a debt or fixed investment security, in which a bondholder (investor or creditor) loans an amount of money to the bond issuer (government or corporations) for a specific period of time. The bond issuer are expected to return the principal (face value) at maturity with an agreed upon interest (coupon), which are paid at fixed intervals.

An interest rate can be defined as an amount of money that is charged as a percentage of the total amount of money borrowed or securities purchased from an individual or a financial institution.

Generally, there exist an inverse relationship between bonds and interest rates.

Interest rates and the price of old or existing bonds are inversely related. Thus, an increase in the interest rate (cost of borrowing an amount of money rises) causes a fall or decrease in the price of bonds.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.