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Problem 11-24 A 30-year maturity bond making annual coupon payments with a coupon rate of 14%...

Problem 11-24

A 30-year maturity bond making annual coupon payments with a coupon rate of 14% has duration of 10.53 years and convexity of 192.2. The bond currently sells at a yield to maturity of 9%.

Required:
(a)

Find the price of the bond if its yield to maturity falls to 8% or rises to 10%. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

  Yield to maturity of 8% $   
  Yield to maturity of 10% $   
(b)

What prices for the bond at these new yields would be predicted by the duration rule and the duration-with-convexity rule?(Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Omit the "$" sign in your response.)

Duration rule Duration-with-
convexity rule
  YTM falls to 8% $    $   
  YTM increases to 10% $    $   
(c) What is the percent error for each rule? (Round your answers to 3 decimal places. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
Duration rule Duration-with-
convexity rule
  Percent error for 8% YTM %   %  
  Percent error for 10% YTM %   %  
(d) What do you conclude about the accuracy of the two rules?

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