CEU stands for Continuing Education Unit. A CEU is a unit of credit equal to ten hours of participation in an. accredited program designed for professionals with certificates or licenses to practice various professions . Examples of people who need CEUs include engineers, lawyers, CPAs, educators, nurses, architects, mental.
Investors can use duration to help estimate how a bond or bond fund's value would be affected by a change in interest rates. For example, a bond with a duration of 5 years would be expected to rise 5% in value for every 1-percentage-point decline in interest rates (remember that interest rates and bond prices move in opposite directions). If interest rates go up by one percentage point, the bond's value would be expected to drop 5%.
U.S. Treasury securities include short-term, intermediate-term and long-term securities. Treasury bills, commonly referred to as T-bills, are short-term securities that mature in 52 weeks or less. Treasury notes, or T-notes, are intermediate-term securities that have maturities of between two and 10 years. Treasury bonds are long-term government securities with maturities of 30 years.