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a. Heath Foods’s bonds have 10 years remaining to maturity. The
bonds have a face value...
a. Heath Foods’s bonds have 10 years remaining to maturity. The
bonds have a face value of $1,000 and a yield to maturity of 9%.
They pay interest annually and have a 10% coupon rate. What is
their current yield?
b. Suppose Hillard Manufacturing sold an issue of bonds with a
12-year maturity, a $1,000 par value, a 10% coupon rate, and
semiannual interest payments.
- Two years after the bonds were issued, the going rate of
interest on bonds such as these fell to 5%. At what price would the
bonds sell?
- Suppose that 2 years after the initial offering, the going
interest rate had risen to 11%. At what price would the bonds
sell?
- Suppose that 2 years after the issue date (as in part a)
interest rates fell to 5%. Suppose further that the interest rate
remained at 5% for the next 10 years. What would happen to the
price of the bonds over time?