Assume that all interest rates are certain - all investors know how interest rates will change over time. Two years ago, you purchased a 10-year bond with a face value of $1,000.00 and annual coupons of 7.4%. When you purchased the bond, the one year spot rate was 6.3% and the two year spot rate was 9.8%. You reinvested the first coupon payments at the prevailing rate and then sold the bond after two years at a yield to maturity of 10.9%. If your realised compound yield on the bond was 14.4%, what was the bond's initial purchase price?

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Assume that all interest rates are certain - all investors know how interest rates
will change over time. Two years ago, you purchased a 10-year bond with a face
value of $1,000.00 and annual coupons of 7.4%. When you purchased the bond,
the one year spot rate was 6.3% and the two year spot rate was 9.8%. You
reinvested the first coupon payments at the prevailing rate and then sold the bond
after two years at a yield to maturity of 10.9%. If your realised compound yield on
the bond was 14.4%, what was the bond's initial purchase price?
O a. $747.53
O b. $749.59
O c. $751.34
O d. $755.36
O e. $753.70
O f. $746.65
O g. $754.38
Oh. $757.80
Transcribed Image Text:Assume that all interest rates are certain - all investors know how interest rates will change over time. Two years ago, you purchased a 10-year bond with a face value of $1,000.00 and annual coupons of 7.4%. When you purchased the bond, the one year spot rate was 6.3% and the two year spot rate was 9.8%. You reinvested the first coupon payments at the prevailing rate and then sold the bond after two years at a yield to maturity of 10.9%. If your realised compound yield on the bond was 14.4%, what was the bond's initial purchase price? O a. $747.53 O b. $749.59 O c. $751.34 O d. $755.36 O e. $753.70 O f. $746.65 O g. $754.38 Oh. $757.80
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