Assume the expectations theory of the term structure holds. II bond investors decide that 30 year bonds are no longer as desiable an investment, the yield curve would: A. result in a jump in the 30 - year tate, with the remainder of the yied curve unchanged. B. Ratten near the 30 -year cate and steepen slightly along the smaller rates. C. steepen at the end of the yield curve and flatten somewhere along the rest of the curve D. slope less steeply upward toward the 30 year rate and remain the same after it.
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