If interest rates increase because of a previously unanticipated inflation rate risk?     long-lived debt instruments will decline more than short-lived debt instruments     long-lived debt instruments will decline less than short-lived debt instruments     neither set of debt instruments will decline     all other things being equal, both should decline equally

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If interest rates increase because of a previously unanticipated inflation rate risk?

   

long-lived debt instruments will decline more than short-lived debt instruments

   

long-lived debt instruments will decline less than short-lived debt instruments

   

neither set of debt instruments will decline

   

all other things being equal, both should decline equally

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