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Chapter 19, Problem 3PA
Subpart (a)
To determine
Calculating the value of bonds.
Subpart (b)
To determine
Calculating the value of bonds.
Subpart (c)
To determine
To determine: Value of bonds.
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Erin buys a bond that pays no coupon payments for $160. When the bond matures, she receives $200.
Erin earned an interest rate of ____________ percent on this bond.
(Enter your answer "as a percent, but without the percentage sign." If you think Erin earned 99.99 percent interest, enter only 99.99 in the blank.)
Consider a bond with a three-year remaining maturity.
A. If somehow the face value of the coupon is $10,000 and the annual payment is $500. If the yield to maturity is 6%, what would the price of this bond be?
b. Considering your response to question (a), is the coupon rate higher, lower, or the same as the yield to maturity? Why?
Suppose that interest rates are 6 percent in the economy and a safe bond promises to pay $3 per year in interest forever. What do you think the price of the bond will be? Why? Suppose that the economy, interest rates suddenly fall to 3 percent. What will happen to the price of the bond that pays $3 per year?
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