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Rhiannon Corporation has bonds on the market with 20.5 years to maturity, a YTM of 6.7 percent, and a current price of $1,044. The bonds make semiannual payments.
What must be the coupon rate on these bonds? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)
Coupon rate %
Value of Bond =
Where r is the discounting rate of a compounding period i.e. 6.7% / 2 = 0.0335
And n is the no of Compounding periods 20.5 years * 2 = 41
Coupon ?%
1044 =
1044 = Coupon * 22.1199278397 + 258.98241737
Coupon = 1044 - 258.98241737 / 22.1199278397
Coupon = 35.4891565794
Coupon Rate = 35.4891565794 * 2 / 1000 = 7.10%