You bought one of Great White Shark Repellant Company's 8 percent coupon bonds one year ago for $1,044. These bonds make annual payments and mature 13 years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today, when the required return on the bonds is 6 percent. The bonds have a par value of $1,000. If the inflation rate was 3.4 percent over the past year, what was your total real return on investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Total real return %

You bought one of Great White Shark Repellant Company's 8 percent coupon bonds one year ago for $1,044. These bonds make annual payments and mature 13 years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today, when the required return on the bonds is 6 percent. The bonds have a par value of $1,000. If the inflation rate was 3.4 percent over the past year, what was your total real return on investment? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Total real return %

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Your company currently has $1,000 par, 5.5% coupon bonds with 10 years to maturity and a price of $1,080. If you want to issue new 10-year coupon bonds at par, what coupon rate do you need to set? Assume that for both bonds, the next coupon payment is due in exactly six months. You need to set a coupon rate of %. (Round to two decimal places.)
You purchased an annual-interest coupon bond one year ago with 7 years remaining to maturity at the time of purchase. The coupon interest rate is 10%, and par value is $1,000. At the time you purchased the bond, the yield to maturity was 9%. If you sold the bond after receiving the first interest payment and the bond's yield to maturity had changed to 8%, your annual total rate of return on holding the bond for that year would have been O 12.58% O 13.53% O4.01% O 14.64% 5.12%
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