3. Suppose you are looking to buy a bond that promises to pay $600,000 on the date of maturity in one year. A. If you bid for the bond and wind up paying a price of $590,000, solve for the interest rate on this bond. Round your answer to four decimal places. b. If on the next day, you bid for the bond and pay a price of $575,000, solve for the interest rate on the bond now. Round your answer to four decimal places. C. What is the relationship between the bond price and the interest rate on the bond?

3. Suppose you are looking to buy a bond that promises to pay $600,000 on the date of maturity in one year. A. If you bid for the bond and wind up paying a price of $590,000, solve for the interest rate on this bond. Round your answer to four decimal places. b. If on the next day, you bid for the bond and pay a price of $575,000, solve for the interest rate on the bond now. Round your answer to four decimal places. C. What is the relationship between the bond price and the interest rate on the bond?

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1QTC

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

Find readings or videos on the internet with information on the factors that move the demand and supply curves of bonds, their effect on interest rates. Answer the following questions: 1. One way the Fed decreases the money supply is by selling bonds to the public. Using supply and demand analysis for bonds, show what effect this action has on interest rates. 2. Using the supply and demand of bonds, show why interest rates are pro-cyclical (they increase when the economy is expanding and decrease during recession). 3. What effect can a sudden increase in gold price volatility have on interest rates? 4. Using a supply and demand analysis for bonds, show the effect on interest rates when the risk of the bond increases.
2. In year 1, the yield on 1-year T-bills is 1%, and on 10-year T-bond is 5%. In year 2, 1-year yield becomes 1.5%, and 10-year yield becomes 8.5%. 1. In year 2, does the market expect future short-term interest rate to rise or fall, compared with year 1? Why? Explain carefully. 2. Has the probability of a recession risen or decreased?
Suppose that CNN headline news reports that a bond price has "plunged" (i.e. decreased) due to expectations of increased inflation. What does this imply about the corresponding bond's interest rate? Providing the definition of the yield to maturity that we use in class and then applying this definition to this problem, briefly explain why the bond's interest rate changed in this way. 5.
Bond A pays $8,000 in 28 years. Bond B pays $8,000 in 14 years. (To keep things simple, assume these are zero-coupon bonds, which means the $8,000 is the only payment the bondholder receives.) Suppose the interest rate is 5 percent. Using the rule of 70, the value of Bond A is approximately Now suppose the interest rate increases to 10 percent. Using the rule of 70, the value of Bond A is now approximately I The value of a bond rate. and the value of Bond B is approximately and the value of Bond B is approximately Comparing each bond's value at 5 percent versus 10 percent, Bond A's value decreases by a when the interest rate increases, and bonds with a longer time to maturity are percentage than Bond B's value. sensitive to changes in the interest
Please answer 1 and 2
What does it mean to say that a bond has a value less than one for its relative yield differential? What might account for such a difference?
The demand D (in billions of £) for a bond with coupon rate 5% and face value FV = 1000, and two years to maturity as a function of its price P is D = 4000 − 2P. The supply in (billions of £)as a function of the price of the bond is S = 2P + 400. b) Suppose that the yield to maturity of the bond is i = 0.05. What is the quantity demanded/supplied at this interest rate? What happens to the demand/supply of the bond as the interest rate increases? Explain why. c) What is the equilibrium interest rate? d) Suppose that the bond trades at premium. Is there excess demand or supply? Explain. e) There is a business cycle contraction, so both supply and demand shifts. After the shift, the new demand curve is given by: D = 4000 + X − 2P , whereas the new supply curve is S = 2P + 200. For which values of X will the interest increase/decrease? Which values of X are in line with empirical data?
Suppose a new process was developed that could be used to make oil out of seawater. The equipment required is quite expensive, but it would in time lead to low prices for gasoline, electricity, and other types of energy. What effect would this have on interest rates? (Hint: which direction does demand curve shift? How does it change savings and investment in the economy?)
Hh.46.
What determine the Structure of Interest Rates and name the three primary shapes of the Structure of Interest Rates?
Calculate the future value of $500 four years from now based on the following scenarios. Instructions: Enter your answers rounded to 2 decimal places. a. What is the future value of $500 four years from now if the interest rate is 5 percent? %24 b. Suppose that the interest rate is 7 percent. What is the future value of the payment four years from now?