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    Bond Valuation

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    What is the forward price of your contract? Suppose both of the spot rates unexpectedly shift downward by 1 percent. What is the price of a forward contract otherwise identical to yours?

    You enter into a forward contract to buy a 5 yr, zero coupon bond that will be issued in one year. The face value of the bond is 2,000, and the 1 year and 10 year spot interest rates are 2 percent per annum a 6 percent per annum. Both of these interest rates are expressed as effective annual yields. What is the forward price

    Present Value problems

    Present Values. Compute the present value of a $100 cash flow for the following combinations of discount rates and times: a. r = 8 percent. t = 10 years. b. r = 8 percent. t = 20 years. c. r = 4 percent. t = 10 years. d. r = 4 percent. t = 20 years. Future Values. Compute the future value of a $100 cash flow for the sa

    Important information about bond's yield to maturity

    Bond Pricing -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. A 30-year maturity bond with face value $1,000 makes annual coupon payments and has a coupon rate of 8 percent. What is the bond's yield to maturity if the bond is selling for a. $900 b. $1,000 c. $1,100 2. Repeat th

    Exam Study Question

    A 1-year Corporate bond is issued with a face value of $100,000, paying interest of $2,500 semi-annually. If market yields decrease shortly after the T-bond is issued, what happens to the bond's: Price Coupon Rate Yield to Maturity

    Bond Question: price, coupon rate, yield to maturity (YTM)

    A 10-year corporate bond is issued with a face value of $100,000, paying interest of $2,500 semi-annually. If market yields decrease shortly after T-bond is issued, what happens to the bond's: A. Price B. Coupon rate C. Yield to maturity

    Answer

    The Garraty Company has two bond issues outstanding. Both bonds pay $100 annual interest plus $1,000 at maturity. Bond L has a maturity of 15 years, and Bond S a maturity of 1 year. a. What will be the value of each of these bonds when the going rate of interest is (1) 5 percent, (2) 8 percent, and (3) 12 percent? Assume tha

    Castle in the Sands, Inc.

    A. Several years ago, Castles in the Sand, Inc., issued bonds at face value at a yield to maturity of 7 percent. Now, with 8 years left until the maturity of the bonds, the company has run into hard times and the yield to maturity on the bonds has increased to 15 percent. What has happened to the price of the bond? B. Suppos

    Solve: Bond Prices and Yields

    A) Several years ago, Castles in the Sand, Inc., issued bonds at face value at a yield to maturity of 7%. Now, with 8 years left until the maturity of the bonds, the company has run into hard times and the yield to maturity on the bonds has increased to 15%. What has happened to the price of the bond? B) Suppose that investo

    Continuous Compounding, Portfolio Duration, CBOT bond futures contract, Swap

    Problem 1 The 6-month, 12-month, 18-month, and 24-month zero rates are 4%, 4.5%, 4.75%, and 5%, with semi-annual compounding. (a) What are the rates with continuous compounding? (b) What is the forward rate for the 6-month period beginning in 18 months? (c) What is the value of an FRA that promises to pay 6% (compounded sem

    Portfolio Management

    1. What is the correlation coefficient? 2. What is the amount to put in the bond fund to achieve the minimum variance portfolio? 3. What is the expected return, variance, and standard deviation on this portfolio? 4. What is the slope of a line going from Rf through this portfolio? 5. What is the utility of this portfolio? 6

    Practice Problems

    1. Market-determined required rate of return is the same thing as discount rate, according to the text. a. True b. False 2. When the market interest rate exceeds the coupon rate, bonds sell for less than face value. a. True b. False 3. The yield to maturity is defined as the discount rate that makes the present value o

    Corporate bonds

    A 10-year corporate bond is issued with a face value of $100,000, paying interest of $2,500. semi-annually. If market yields decrease shortly after the T-bond is issued, what happens to the bond's: a. price? b. coupon rate? c. yield to maturity?

    Bond values

    A $1,000 par value bond was issued 25 years ago at a 12 percent coupon rate. It currently has 15 years remaining to maturity. Interest rates on similar debt obligations are now 8 percent. a. What is the current price of the bond? b. Assume Ms. Russell bought the bond three years ago, when it had a price of $1,070. W

    Need help with study questions

    1)Calculate the aftertax cost of debt under each of the following conditions. Yield Corporate Tax Rate a. 8.0% 18% b. 12.0% 34% c. 10.6% 15% 2) Acme Corp has a $1,000 par value bo

    Present value of 3 year bond issue using financial calculator

    Rush Group wants to sell $25 million (Face Value) in three year bonds and receive $24 million for them today. If interest rates are 7.56%, what must the coupon rate be? Answer: 6.04% Could you please post this solution as you are doing it on a financial calculator. (ex: n= i/y= pv= pmt= fv= ) I know that n=6 and i/y=

    Corporate financial analysis

    The first investment is a bond which was purchased on May 10 2005, and the purchase price was $20,000 the bond later was sold on May 12, 2005 , the sales proceed were $19,500. Interest on the bond from May 10,2004 to May12,2005, was $2,100. The second investment was Common stock which was purchased on December 16,2004 ,at a

    Yield to Maturity and Price: Below Par

    A bond which has a yield to maturity greater than its coupon interest rate will sell for a price, A) below par, B) at par, C) above par, D) what is equal to the face value of the bond plus the value of interest payments.

    Bond valuation: Yield to maturity, Yield to call

    Company A issued zero coupon bonds 5 years ago at a price of $200 per bond. The bond has a par value of $1000 and a 20 year maturity when they were isued. The bonds were callable 10 years after the issue date at a price 7 percent over their accrued value on the call date. If the bonds sell for $225 in the market today what is t

    Corporate bond vs. tax-free bond

    I need help because I don't understand how the teacher arrived at the answer for this problem. With all things the same and the investor is in the 30% tax bracket which bond should they purchase? Answer - Corporate bond 6.3%

    Coupon Bond

    You enter into a forward contract to buy a 10 year, zero-coupon bond that will be issued in one year.The face value of the bond is $1,000, and the 1 -year and 11-year spot interest rates are 4 percent per annum and 9 percent per annum, respectively. Both of these interest rates are expressed as effective annual yields (EAYs).

    After tax return on a bond

    I need help with this problem regarding after-tax return on the bond to an investor in the 50% marginal income tax bracket. The second part of the problem is - What is the after tax return if the bond was a tax-free municipal bond? A corporate bond is selling for $950. It matures in a year, at which time the holder will recei

    A Level Coupon Bond

    A level coupon bond: A) is typically a debenture. B) has the same rate as its yield to maturity. C) is an annuity over the life of the bond. D) is a zero coupon annuity. E) C) and D).

    bond's Yield

    True or False If a bond's yield does not change over its life, then the size of the discount or premium will increase as its life shortens.

    Zero Coupon Bonds and Face Value

    Fill in the table below for the zero-coupon bonds. The face value of each bond is $1000. Price Maturity (Years) Yield to Maturity $300 30 ----- $300 ----- 8% ---- 10 10%

    Price of bond

    O,Meara, Inc., plans to issue $6 million of perpetual bonds. The face value of each bond is $1,000. The semi-annual coupon on the bonds is 4.5%. Market interest rates on one-year bonds are 8%. With equal probability, the long-term market interest rate will be either 12% or 6% next year. Assume investors are risk-neutral.

    Corporate bonds

    A 10-year Corporate bond is issued with a face value of $100,000, paying interest of $2,500 semi-annually. If market yields decrease shortly after the T-bond is issued, what happens to the bond's: a. price? b. coupon rate? c. yield to maturity?

    Finance

    (See attached file for full problem description with data table) --- Using the table above solve the following: a. Assume the interest rate in the market (yield to maturity) goes down to 8 percent for the 10 percent bonds. Using column 2, indicate what the bond price will be with a 5-year, a 15-year, and a 30-year time

    Calculation of the yield to maturity for bonds

    I'm trying to understand a formula in a CPA review book for the calculation of the yield to maturity for bonds. The formula is as follows: YM = Annual interest payment + Principal Payment -Bond Price / Number of years to maturity / 0.6 (Price of bond) + 0.4 (Principal payment) The factors 0.6 and 0.4 are some type of