The corporate bond market is “thin” compared to the market for money market securities or corporate stocks. a) true Prices in the corporate bond market tend to be less volatile than prices of securities sold in markets with greater trading volumes. a) False All other things being equal‚ a given change in the interest rates will have a greater impact on the price of a low-coupon bond than a higher-coupon bond with the same maturity. a) True If investors believe inflation will be increasing in the
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5-1 Bond Valuation with Annual payments Jackson Corporation’s bonds have 12 years remaining to maturity. Interest is paid annually‚ the bonds have a $1‚000 par value‚ and the coupon interest rate is 8%. The bonds have a yield to maturity of 9%. What is the current market price of these bonds? F= par value C= maturity value R= coupon rate per coupon payment period I= effective interest rate per coupon payment period N= number of coupon paynments F= 1000 so C should = 1000 r= .08 i=
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6 INTEREST RATES AND BOND VALUATION L E A R N I N G LG1 Describe interest rate fundamentals‚ the term structure of interest rates‚ and risk premiums. LG2 Review the legal aspects of bond financing and bond cost. LG3 LG4 Discuss the general features‚ quotations‚ ratings‚ popular types‚ and international issues of corporate bonds. LG5 LG6 G O A L S Apply the basic valuation model to bonds and describe the impact of required return and time to maturity on bond
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October 2014 Bond Pricing Qu 1: Time to Maturity Zero Coupon Rate Discount Factor 1 5% 2 6% 3 7% 4 8% 5 9% Give the formula for the discount factor in terms of the zero coupon rate. Use the formula to fill in the discount factors in the table above (you can write the formula or using excel calculate the numerical value). Assume that the government wishes to issue a new 5 year bond priced at 100 (called a par coupon bond as it is priced at par i.e. the price is the same as the face value) given the
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secondary markets. 5. Funds are provided to the initial issuer of securities in the A) secondary market. B) primary market. C) deficit market. D) surplus market. 6. Which of the following is a capital market instrument? A) a sixmonth CD B) a threemonth Treasury bill C) a tenyear bond D) an agreement for a bank to
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initiated on day 60 and will mature on day 210.) The implied forward rate over 150 days‚ and hence the rate on 150-day FRA‚ is 2.5%. The actual interest rate over that period could be either 2.4% or 2.6%. (a) If the interest rate on day 60 is 2.6%‚ how much will the lender have to pay if the FRA is settled on day 60? How much if it is settled on day 210? (b) If the interest rate on day 60 is 2.4%‚ how much will the lender have to pay if the FRA is settled on day 60? How much if it is settled on day
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Securities Chapters in this Part Chapter 6 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Chapter 7 Stock Valuation Integrative Case 3: Encore International © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 6 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Instructor’s Resources Overview This chapter begins with a thorough discussion of interest rates‚ yield curves‚ and their relationship to required returns. Features of the major types of bond issues are presented along with their legal
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2.24 When the money ($1000-($3000-$2000)) lost from one contract‚ margin call will be have. This could happen when the price of the wheat increase by (1000/ 5000) =$0.2 the price of wheat must increase to (4.5+0.2) = $4.7 per bushel for there to be a margin call. $1‚500 can be withdraw from the margin account‚ this will happen if the futures price fall to (1‚ 500 / 5‚000) = $0.3 to (4.5 – 0.3) $42 per bushel. 4.25 (a) the six-month zero-coupon bond rate is calculated as follows:
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dollar delivered in half-year n‚ i.e.‚ of a zero coupon bond which pays $1 in half-year n. In the next two columns there are the cash flows of two bonds‚ A and B. Essentially‚ bond A pays a 20% semi-annual coupon and bond B pays a 10% semi-annual coupon. Both bonds mature in 2.5 years‚ when each also pays its principal of 100. Assume semi-annual compounding. Half Year 1 2 3 4 5 n Bond A Bond B .95 .91 .87 .80 .70 10 10 10 10 110 5 5 5 5 105 A. Calculate the
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BOND PROBLEM SOLUTIONS 1. Six years ago‚ The Corzine Company sold a 20-year bond issue with a 14 percent annual coupon rate and a 9 percent call premium. Today‚ Corzine called the bonds. The bonds originally were sold at their face value of $1‚000. Compute the realized rate of return for investors who purchased the bonds when they were issued and who surrender them today in exchange for the call price. PV = 1000; N = 6; PMT = 140; FV = 1090; CPT I/Y I/Y = 15.02% 2. You just purchased
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