7A-3 STRIPPED U.S. TREASURY BOND McGwire Company's pension fund pro- jected that a significant number of its employees would take advantage of an early retirement program the company plans to offer in 5 years. Anticipating the need to fund these pensions, the firm bought zero cou- pon U.S. Treasury Trust Certificates maturing in 5 years. When these instruments were originally issued, they were 12% coupon, 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds. The stripped Treasuries are currently priced to yield 10%. Their total maturity value is $6,000,000. What is their total cost (price) to McGwire today?

7A-3 STRIPPED U.S. TREASURY BOND McGwire Company's pension fund pro- jected that a significant number of its employees would take advantage of an early retirement program the company plans to offer in 5 years. Anticipating the need to fund these pensions, the firm bought zero cou- pon U.S. Treasury Trust Certificates maturing in 5 years. When these instruments were originally issued, they were 12% coupon, 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds. The stripped Treasuries are currently priced to yield 10%. Their total maturity value is $6,000,000. What is their total cost (price) to McGwire today?

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The prices of the three US Treasury zero-coupon bonds that mature in 6, 12 and 18 months are: Time to Maturity 6 months 12 months 18 months Price $1,043.15 $1,112.12 $1,000 $1,032.08 $999 $997.53 $991 What is the price of the 18-month, 2.75% US Treasury coupon bond that pays semi- annual coupons if the face values of all bonds are $1,000?
LO4 The company intends to issue 20-year bonds with a face value of $1,000. The bonds carry a coupon rate of 9%, and interest is paid semiannually. On the issue date, the market interest rate for bonds issued by companies with similar risk is 12% compounded semiannually. Compute the market price of one bond on the date of issue.
DEF. The company issued a 5-year bond on January 2, 2020, with a par value of $700,000. This bond pays its investor every six months. The Coupon rate is 6% and the market rate is 7%. How much coupon cash interest payment (PMT) does DEF company party its investor every six months.
Problem 2 (What is the solution?) A company has issued 10-year bonds, with a face value of 1,000,000 Php, in 1,000 units. Interest at 16% is paid quarterly. If an investor desires to earn 20% nominal interest on 100,000 Php worth of these bonds, what would the selling price have to be? Ans should be: 82,836 Php
A company must make a payment of $2500 in 5 years. Four-year zero coupon bonds and seven-year zero coupon bonds are available for investment. These bonds could be purchased in any quantity and the yield rate is 3% effective. Let A and B be the face values of the 4-year and 7-year zero-coupon bonds, respectively, that are purchased to satisfy full immunization against any changes in interest rates. Find A. Possible Answers A 1262 1431 C 1618 D 1725 E 1962
A. you are offered to buy a 4 year coupon bond in the beginning of its 7th month on its third year for $963.94. its face value is $1,000 and its coupon rate is 5.172% per annum, with coupon paid at the end of each quarter . government bond rate now is 6.9%. a. is $963.94 a good price for you to buy it or not ? what is the fair price for the bond ? b. what is the yield if you buy at the price that you have been offered ? c. if the government bond rate suddenly goes down to 4.7%, what will be the fair value of the bond ? B. the company just paid $1.48 annual dividend and announce the plns to pay $1.54 next year . the dividend growthrate is expected to remain constant at the current level for the following 4 years and then settle at 3% per year , if you are planning to buy this stock in 2 years time, how much would you expect to pay for it if the required rate of return is 7% at the time of your purchase ? ( use two deciaml rounding )
The company expects to invest approximately $1 million in three months in corporate bonds. The current rate of interest is 5.10%. To hedge the position, the company wishes to use 3 year Treasury bond futures contracts trading at 9800. Calculate the profit or loss from the position in futures market if in 3 months the contracts are trading at 91.900. a. $168334.11 O b. $-16833.41 c. $-170862.48 O d. $392716.91 O e. $-1708624.84
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Term in years: 3 4 Rate: 1.8% 2.25% 2.30% 2.66% 3.13% The table above shows the interest rates available from investing in risk-free U.S. Treasury securities with different investment terms. What is the present value (PV) of cash flows from an investment that yields $5,000 at the end of each year for the next four years? O A. $22,639 O B. $15,093 OC. $18,866 O D. $26,412
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Atom Endeavour Co. issued $48 million face amount of 12.0% bonds when market interest rates were 13.38% for bonds of similar risk and other characteristics. Required: a. How much interest will be paid annually on these bonds? (Enter your answer in dollars, not millions of dollars, i.e. 1,234,567.) Annual interest payment b. Were the bonds issued at a premium or discount? O Premium O Discount c. Will the annual interest expense on these bonds be more than, equal to, or less than the amount of interest paid each year? O Interest expense will be less than the interest paid. O Interest expense will be more than the interest paid. O Interest expense will be equal to the interest paid.

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