duration

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But it cautioned that this assumption "may need to be revised if the duration of the conflict extends and the degree of damage suffered gets reassessed".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

“The superlong sector has been relatively robust when investors are loath to add duration risk, and performance at auctions has not been bad,” Citi Research’s Tomohisa Fujiki says in a research report.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Fix your bond exposure: If your bond fund’s average duration is more than seven years, you are betting inflation returns to 2% fast.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Even with West Texas Intermediate crude back at the high-$60s/low-$70s in 2027, “management teams show little appetite to accelerate activity…They want to see both price and duration before acting.”

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

"Based on travel duration and the supplies their astronaut has remaining, any such probe would have to be launched within a month. Even then he would starve a little."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir