At this 5.3% interest rate and expected return corresponding to a bond price of$950, let us assume that the quantity of bonds demanded is $100 billion, which isplotted as point A in Figure 1. To display both the bond price and the correspondinginterest rate, Figure 1 has two vertical axes. The left vertical axis shows the bond price,with the price of bonds increasing from $750 near the bottom of the axis toward $1,000at the top. The right vertical axis shows the interest rate, which increases in the oppositedirection from 0% at the top of the axis to 33% near the bottom. The right and leftvertical axes run in opposite directions because, as we learned in Chapter 4, bond price and interest rate are always negatively related: As the price of the bond rises, theinterest rate on the bond necessarily falls
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