Roy Orbison wants to invest in a 5-year Treasury bond with a 3
3/4% coupon interest...
Roy Orbison wants to invest in a 5-year Treasury bond with a 3
3/4% coupon interest rate. He'd like to earn a yield to maturity of
3.90%. The most he should pay per $100 in face value to earn this
yield is:
Roy Orbison wants to invest in a 10 year Treasury bond with a 4
1/4% coupon interest rate. He'd like to earn a yield to maturity of
4.65%. The most he should pay per $100 in face value to earn this
yield is:
You invest in a 5-year bond (par=$1,000) with a coupon rate of
6%. The interest is paid annually, and its YTM is 4%. If you sell
the bond one year later, what is your holding period return?
A.
4.0%
B.
4.5%
C.
5.1%
D.
7.6%
You are evaluating a corporate bond issued by National Fishing
League (NFL). The NFL bond is a 4-year bond with a par value of $1
million. Its interest (coupon) payments are based on the following...
Suppose that you invest in a two-year Treasury bond with a
coupon rate of 6% and $1,000 par. Suppose that you buy this bond at
a price of exactly $1,000. You intend to hold this bond to maturity
and reinvest the coupons until the bond matures. You expect to
reinvest the coupons in an account that pays an APR of 1.23%, with
semi-annual compounding. What is the effective annual rate of
return on your investment? Hint: see Example 8 in...
4.U.S. Treasury bonds pay coupon interest semiannually. Suppose
a Treasury bond matures in two years, the annual coupon rate is 2.6
percent, the face value is $1,000, and the annual yield to maturity
is 3.5 percent. a. What is the duration of the bond? b. What is the
modified duration? c. What is the dollar duration? d. What would be
the change in price of the bond if there was a 10 basis point
change in the return?
A 30-yr Treasury bond with a coupon yield of 10% and a 5-yr
Treasury bond with a coupon yield of 3% have different yields
because:
A. Inflation is expected to diminish the value of money
B. The yield curve is inverted
C. Lenders demand compensation for the longer time frame
D. The yield curve is flat
E. Both A & C
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Treasury Zero-Coupon Bond Price
0.976
0.952
0.928
Interest Rate Swap
a
b
c
Oil Forward Price
57
58
59.5
Oil Swap Price
d
e
f
Use the information in the table above and construct the set of
fixed rates of the interest rate swaps and the
oil swap prices for 1 through 3 years. (Find
a-f)
A 5-year, $1,000 face bond with a 3% coupon is currently selling
with a 4% YTM (yield to maturity). Calculate the duration of the
bond and how long should you hold the bond if you want to earn the
4% YTM that you thought you would get when you bought the bond?
Assume that market yields rise by 40 basis points. What do you
expect to happen to the bond’s price, using modified duration?
Mary wants to invest her recent bonus in an eight-year bond that
pays a coupon of 9 percent annually. The bonds are
selling at $1,125.46 today. If she buys this bond and holds it to
maturity, what would be her yield?
Nathan purchased a 5-year Treasury bond with a coupon rate of j2
= 3.50% p.a.
and a face value of $100 that matures at par. Coupons can be
reinvested at
j2 = 3.2% p.a. for the first four and a half years.
a. [2 marks] Calculate Nathan’s purchase price for this bond at a
yield
rate of j2 = 3.1% p.a. (rounded to three decimal places).
b. [4 marks] Assume that Nathan held this bond to maturity to earn
a...
The cheapest-to-deliver bond in a Treasury bond futures contract
is a 5% coupon bond, and delivery is
expected in 250 days. Coupon payments on the bond will be made in
175 days and 357 days from now.
The last coupon date was 9 days ago. The rate of interest with
continuous compounding is 2.5% per
annum for all maturities (i.e. term structure is flat). The
conversion factor for the bond is 0.9904. The
current quoted bond price is $125. Calculate...