(Related to Checkpoint 9.3) (Bond valuation relationships) You own a bond that pays $100 in annual interest, with a $1,000 par value. It matures in 15 years. The market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 12 percent. a. Calculate the value of the bond. b. How does the value change if the yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond (i) increases to 15 percent or (ii) decreases to 8 percent? c. Explain the implications of your answers in part b as they relate to interest-rate risk, premium bonds, and discount bonds. d. Assume that the bond matures in 5 years instead of 15 years and recalculate your answers in parts a and b. e. Explain the implications of your answers in part d as they relate to interest-rate risk, premium bonds, and discount bonds. a. What is the value of the bond if the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 12 percent? $(Round to the nearest cent.) C

Bond valuation refers to the computation of the fair price of the bond which is to be calculated by adding the total of expected future payments with the present amounts of principals payable at maturity.