6. Below is a list of daily Treasury note and bond listings from Wall Street Journal. Treasury bonds make semiannual payments. First column is the maturity date. Second column is the coupon rate. Third and Fourth columns show the bid and ask prices. Treasury prices are quoted as a percentage of face value. So on the 2025/10/31 bond, the bid price is shown to be 106.212. With $1000 face value, this quote represents $1062.12. The Fifth column shows the change in the ask price from the previous day, measured as percentage of face value. So the 2025/10/31 bond's ask price decreased by 0.002%, or $0.02 with face value of $1000, from previous day's value. The last column shows the yield to maturity, based on the ask price. Locate the Treasury bond in Figure 7.5 maturing in November 2026. Is this a premium or a discount bond? What is its current yield? What is its yield to maturity? What is the bid-ask spread in dollars? Assume a par value of $10,000. Maturity 10/31/2025 11/15/2026 Coupon 3.000 6.500 Treasury Notes and Bonds Bid Asked 106.212 130.200 106.216 130.210 Chg -0.002 -0.030 Asked Yield 1.814 1.821

Showbiz, Inc., has issued eight-year bonds with a coupon of 6.73 percent and semiannual coupon payments. The market’s required rate of return on such bonds is 7.51 percent. a. What is the market price of these bonds? (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.25 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.) Market price $ _____________ b). If the above bond is callable after five years at an 9.7 percent premium on the face value, what is the expected return on this bond? (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places, e.g. 1.25 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.) Expected return _______________ %

An analyst observes a GUI & Co 6.625%, 5 year semi-annual pay bond trading at 103.164% of par (where par = $1,000). The bond is callable at 102.5 in 3 years and putable at 99 in 3 years. #3: what are the bond's current yield and yield to maturity? #4. What's the bond's yield to call and put? EC: Do you expect that the bond would be called and/or put? Why or Why not?

Calculate the purchase price of the $1,000 face value bond using the information given below. (Do not round the intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.) Issue date Maturity date Purchase date Coupon rate (%) Market rate (%) Dec 15, 1992 Dec 15, 2027 June 15, 2008 5.75 7.9 Assume that Bond interest is paid semiannually. The bond was originally issued at its face value. Bonds are redeemed at their face value at maturity. Market rates of return are compounded