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SHY - a Treasury Bond ETF

By Mark Kennedy, About.com

Definition:

SHY - the iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF seeks to emualte the price and yield of the short-term sector of the United States Treasury market as defined by the Barclays Capital 1-3 Year U.S. Treasury index.

The investing style of this bond ETF has a low sensitivity to interest rates and a high credit rating.

To see more bond ETFs, look no further than our list of bond ETFs.

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