ANSWER
IF YIELD TO
MATURITY INCREASES SHORTLY, THEN :
ITS
AFFECT ON COUPON RATE :
- The Increase or Decrease of Yield to Maturity does
not affect the Coupon rate because the Coupon Rate of a Bond is
FIXED throughout the tenure of the Bond.
- Coupon Rate is Fixed at the time of Issue of bond
only and does not vary at with other factors such as change in
yields and market interest rates etc.
- Hence NO CHANGE IN COUPON RATE.
ITS
AFFECT ON BOND PRICE :
- When Yield to Maturity increases, it means that now
the Investor's Expectation have increased and now they demand more
return from such Bonds.
- BUT Since the Return from the Bond in terms of
Coupon Payment remains fixed, the Bond holders starts exiting from
such bond and the Bond Price starts falling.
- Also in other words, since Yield to Maturity is the
Discount Rate with which we discount out Cash Inflows from the Bond
in order to compute "bond price" , the Higher will be our Discount
Rate Lower will come our Bond Price.
- Hence we can conclude that BOND PRICE WILL
FALL.