If ABC Bank’s ALCO targets the market value of shareholders’ equity in its interest rate risk management, is the bank positioned to gain or lose if interest rates fall?   If interest rates rise by 1% for all assets and liabilities, what is the approximate expected change in the bank’s economic value of equity?   Provide a specific transaction that the bank could implement in order to immunize its interest rate risk exposure.

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