Exam 7: Valuing Bonds

Possible shapes for the yield include all of the following EXCEPT

Determine the interest payment for the following three bonds: 2.5 percent coupon corporate bond (paid semiannually), 3.15 percent coupon Treasury note, and a corporate zero-coupon bond maturing in 10 years. (Assume a $1,000 par value.)

Calculate the price of a 6.5 percent coupon bond with 27 years left to maturity and a market interest rate of 5 percent. (Assume interest payments are semiannual and par value is $1,000.) Is this a discount or premium bond?

Determine the interest payment for the following three bonds: 4 percent coupon corporate bond (paid semiannually), 4.75 percent coupon Treasury note, and a corporate zero-coupon bond maturing in 15 years. (Assume a $1,000 par value.)

A 7.5 percent coupon bond with nine years left to maturity is priced to offer a 10.4 percent yield to maturity. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 8 percent. What is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? (Assume interest payments are semiannual and par value is $1,000.)

Which of the following determines the dollar amount of interest paid to bondholders?

Which of the following is a reason municipal bonds offer lower rates of interest income for their investors?

Calculate the price of a zero-coupon bond that matures in 10 years if the market interest rate is 6 percent. (Assume semiannual compounding and $1,000 par value.)

A 6 percent coupon bond with 12 years left to maturity is priced to offer a 6.5 percent yield to maturity. You believe that in one year, the yield to maturity will be 6.25 percent. What is the change in price the bond will experience in dollars? (Assume semiannual interest payments and $1,000 par value.)

Rank from lowest credit risk to highest credit risk the following bonds, with the same time to maturity, by their yield to maturity: Treasury bond with yield of 5.55 percent, IBM bond with yield of 7.95 percent, Trump Casino bond with a yield of 9.15 percent and Banc Ono bond with a yield of 6.12 percent.

A 5 percent coupon bond has 10 years to maturity and could be called in two years. If the bond is called, investors will earn 6.2 percent. The call premium is one year of coupon payments. If coupon payments are made semiannually and par value is $1,000, what is the bond's yield to maturity?

A 3.75 percent TIPS has an original reference CPI of 183.9. If the current CPI is 214.7, what is the current interest payment? (Assume semiannual interest payments and a par value of $1,000.)

Rank from highest credit risk to lowest credit risk the following bonds, with the same time to maturity, by their yield to maturity: Treasury bond with yield of 6.55 percent, IBM bond with yield of 10.95 percent, Trump Casino bond with a yield of 9.15 percent, and Banc Ono bond with a yield of 9.46 percent.

Consider the following three bond quotes; a Treasury note quoted at 102.30, and a corporate bond quoted at 99.45, and a municipal bond quoted at 102.45. If the Treasury and corporate bonds have a par value of $1,000 and the municipal bond has a par value of $5,000, what is the price of these three bonds in dollars?

Consider a 2.75 percent TIPS with an issue CPI reference of 184.2. At the beginning of this year, the CPI was 195.4 and was at 200.5 at the end of the year. What was the capital gain of the TIPS in dollars?

Which of the following terms means the chance that future interest payments will have to be reinvested at a lower interest rate?

All of the following items would need to be included in the bond's indenture agreement EXCEPT

Compute the price of a 4.75 percent coupon bond with 15 years left to maturity and a market interest rate of 6.25 percent. (Assume interest payments are semiannual and par value is $1,000.) Is this a discount or premium bond?

A client in the 33 percent marginal tax bracket is comparing a municipal bond that offers a 5 percent yield to maturity and a similar-risk corporate bond that offers a 6.25 percent yield. Which bond will give the client more profit after taxes?

Which of the following are backed only by the reputation and financial stability of the corporation?