Elizabeth has decided to invest in Bond X, an n-year bond with semi-annual coupons and the following characteristics: • Par value is 1400. • The ratio of the semi-annual coupon rate to the desired semi-annual yield rate, r/i, is 1.02108. The present value of the redemption value is 314. Given vn = 0.5153, what is the price of bond X? Round your answer to two decimal places.

Suppose that you buy a two-year 7.3% bond at its face value. a-1. What will be your total nominal return over the two years if inflation is 2.3% in the first year and 4.3% in the second? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Nominal return a-2. What will be your real return? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) Real return % % Real return Nominal return b. Now suppose that the bond is a TIPS. What will be your total 2-year real and nominal returns? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.) 1%

What is the Macaulay duration of a 7 percent semiannual coupon bond with two years to maturity and a current price of $1,055.30? (Note: You are required to solve the problem by calculating "Years \times PV / Bond Price" for each cash flow and summing the results. YTM and PV must be calculated using a financial calculator. Round your answer to four decimal places.)

Suppose that a 1-year zero-coupon bond with face value $100 currently sells at $90.44, while a 2-year zero sells at $82.64. You are considering the purchase of a 2-year-maturity bond making annual coupon payments. The face value of the bond is $100, and the coupon rate is 12% per year. Required: a. What is the yield to maturity of the 2-year zero? b. What is the yield to maturity of the 2-year coupon bond? c. What is the forward rate for the second year? d. If the expectations hypothesis is accepted, what are (1) the expected price of the coupon bond at the end of the first year and (2) the expected holding-period return on the coupon bond over the first year? e. Will the expected rate of return be higher or lower if you accept the liquidity preference hypothesis? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Required C Required D Required E Will the expected rate of return be higher or lower if you accept the liquidity preference hypothesis?…

Suppose you purchase a ten-year bond with 12% annual coupons. You hold the bond for four years and sell it immediately after receiving the fourth coupon. If the bond's yield to maturity was 10.64% when you purchased and sold the bond, a. What cash flows will you pay and receive from your investment in the bond per $100 face value? b. What is the internal rate of return of your investment? Note: Assume annual compounding. a. What cash flows will you pay and receive from your investment in the bond per $100 face value? The cash flow at time 1-3 is $ (Round to the nearest cent. Enter a cash outflow as a negative number.) The cash outflow at time 0 is $ number.) (Round to the nearest cent. Enter a cash outflow as a negative The total cash flow at time 4 (after the fourth coupon) is $. (Round to the nearest cent. Enter a cash outflow as a negative number.) b. What is the internal rate of return of your investment? The internal rate of return of your investment is %. (Round to two decimal…

Suppose that you buy a two-year 8% bond at its face value.(a) What will be your total nominal return over the two years if inflation is 3% in the first year and 5% in the second? What will be your total real return? (b) Now suppose that the bond is a TIPS. What will be your total two-year real and nominal returns?

1. Suppose you purchase bond that has a coupon of $75, face value of S1,000, and current price of $1,100. What is your coupon rate? What is your current Save Answer yield? 2. Suppose you purchase a bond with a coupon of $50 for $1,010. You sell it one year later for $900. What rate of return did you carn?

The closing price of a U.S. Treasury bond with a face value of $1400 is quoted as 105.45 points, for a current yield of 3.7%. If you buy this bond, how much annual interest will you receive? Make sure your final answer is in a statement form. Show all your math formula/setun math work, and your answer in the space below.

A n-year annual coupons bond with coupon rate r per year. The yield rate is 0.10. Calculate the Macaulay duration of the bond for all four possible combinations of parameters: • n = 10 or 30 • r = 0.05 or 0.15

Suppose you purchase a 10-year bond with 6.64% annual coupons. You hold the bond for 4 years, and sell it immediately after receiving the fourth coupon. If the bond's yield to maturity was 5.17% when you purchased and sold the bond, a. what cash flows will you pay and receive from your investment in the bond per $100 face value? b. what is the annual rate of return of your investment? a. What cash flows will you pay and receive from your investment in the bond per $100 face value? The cash flows from the investment are shown in the following timeline: (Round to the best choice below.) OA. Years Cash Flows O B. Years C. Years Cash Flows Cash Flows - $114.06 O D. Years 0 Cash Flows $107.42 0 0 - $111.26 0 $111.26 1 $6.64 1 $6.64 1 $6.64 1 $6.64 2 $6.64 2 + $6.64 2 + $6.64 2 + $6.64 3 $6.64 3 $6.64 3 $6.64 3 $6.64 b. What is the annual rate of return of your investment? The annual rate of return of your investment is %. (Round to two decimal places.) 4 $114.06 4 $107.42 4 $114.06 4…