(Related to Checkpoint 9.4) (Bond valuation) A bond that matures in 8 years has a $1,000 par value. The annual coupon interest rate is 12 percent and the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 13 percent. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest annually? What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest semiannually? a. The value of this bond if it paid interest annually would be $ (Round to the nearest cent.)

(Related to Checkpoint 9.4) (Bond valuation) A bond that matures in 8 years has a $1,000 par value. The annual coupon interest rate is 12 percent and the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 13 percent. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest annually? What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest semiannually? a. The value of this bond if it paid interest annually would be $ (Round to the nearest cent.)

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A bond's market price is $700. It has a $1,000 par value, will mature in 6 years, and has a coupon interest rate of 11 percent annual interest, but makes its interest payments semiannually. What is the bond's yield to maturity? What happens to the bond's yield to maturity if the bond matures in 12years? What if it matures in 3 years?
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Bond A is a premium bond making semiannual payments. The bond has a coupon rate of 7.5%, a YTM of 6%, and 13 years to maturity. Bond B is a discount bond making semiannual payments. This bond has a coupon rate of 6%, a YTM of 7.5%, and also 13 years to maturity. What are the prices of these bonds today assuming both bonds have a $ 1000 par value? If interest rates remain unchanged, what do you expect the prices of these bonds to be in 2 years and in 12 years?
(i) If investors have demanded an interest rate of 5 percent on the bond investment, what is the maximum prices to pay for the 1-year bond and 30-year bond? (ii) Suppose that the interest rate has increased to 20%, calculate the values of the 1-yearbond and 30-year bond.(iii) Based on the calculations in parts (b) (i) and (ii) above, explain with reasons thefundamental relationship between interest rates and bond maturity. (iv) Briefly explain the meaning of the terms “bond’s coupon rate”, “current yield”, and“yield to maturity”. (v) Explain why bonds have protective covenants.
(Yield to maturity) A bond's market price is $825. It has a $1,000 par value, will mature in 6 years, and has a coupon interest rate of 11 percent annual interest, but makes its interest payments semiannually. What is the bond's yield to maturity? What happens to the bond's yield to maturity if the bond matures in 12 years? What if it matures in 3 years? a. The bond's yield to maturity if it matures in 6 years is b. The bond's yield to maturity if it matures in 12 years is c. The bond's yield to maturity if it matures in 3 years is %. (Round to two decimal places.) %. (Round to two decimal places.) %. (Round to two decimal places.)
Consider a bond paying a coupon rate of 9.5% per year quarterly when the market interest rate is 5.25% per half-year. The bond has four years until maturity. a. Find the bond’s price today and nine months from now. b. What is the total rate of return on the bond?
Consider a bond issued by MGM Inc. exactly two years ago. At that time the bond’s time to maturity was 30 years. The bond pays semiannual coupons with the coupon rate of 6% per year. The face value of the bond is $1000. a. What is the bond’s price today, if today’s market interest rate for bonds of comparable maturity and default risk is 8% per year? b. You would like to speculate and believe that tomorrow the market interest rate for comparable bonds would decrease to 5%, would you buy or sell short this bond today? c. Suppose that exactly two years from today the price of the bond will be $900, what is the annual YTM at that time? Please explain without using excel
A bond that matures in 12 years has a $ 1000 par value. The annual coupon interest rate is 12 percent and the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 16 percent. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest annually? What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest semiannually?
A bond that matures in 9years has a $1,000 par value. The annual coupon interest rate is 14 percent and the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 16 percent. A. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest annually? (Round to the nearest cent) B. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest semiannually? (Round to the nearest two decimnal places)
A bond that matures in 1212 years has a $1 comma 0001,000 par value. The annual coupon interest rate is 1414 percent and the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 1515 percent. What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest annually? What would be the value of this bond if it paid interest semiannually?
4. Suppose that the market rate of interest is 12 per cent on a government bond with a perpetuity payment, which is a coupon value (annual payment) of £6 per year indefinitely. The face value of the loan is £100. a) Define and calculate the price of the bond? Answers.. b) At what yield (or rate) will the loan be trading at par? Explain whether it is trading above or below par in a). Answers... c) Assume that the rate of interest is 'expected' to drop to 3 per cent, derive and calculate the rate of capital gain (or loss)? Answers . d) Derive and explain the expression for the number of bonds held representing the amount of money spent on bonds (B) with the corresponding mean rate of return (HR). Answers.. e) Imagine that W = £40,000, what is the amount spend on bonds, B', if the standard deviation (SD) of earnings (s) is equal to 0.10 with a 3,000,the SD of the total return on bonds, SR. What is the money holding, which is M*? Answers.. Find the mean return on bonds with u = 1. Answer..

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