(Related to Checkpoint 9.3) (Bond valuation relationships) You own a bond that pays $110 in annual interest, with a $1,000 par value. It matures in 20 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 14 percent or (ii) decreases to 7 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 4 years instead of 20 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?

Compute the Macaulay duration under the following conditions:   a. A bond with a four-year term to maturity, a 10% coupon (annual payments), and a market yield of 8%. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places. Assume $1,000 par value.   _________ years   b. A bond with a four-year term to maturity, a 10% coupon (annual payments), and a market yield of 12%. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places. Assume $1,000 par value.   _________ years   c. Compare your answers to Parts a and b, and discuss the implications of this for classical immunization.   As a market yield increases, the Macaulay duration -(Select:declines/increases) . If the duration of the portfolio from Part a is equal to the desired investment horizon the portfolio from Part b is -(Select: no longer/still) perfectly immunized.        Only typed answer

What is the market price of a bond if the face value is $1,000 and the yield to maturity is 5.7%? The bond has a 5.15% coupon rate and matures in 14 years. The bond pays interest semiannually. Please express answer as $X.XX or XX.XX and use rounding guideline included in "Course Information" module. Do not round until the final result.

Bond A is a premium bond with a 9 percent coupon. Bond B is a 5 percent coupon bond currently selling at a discount. Both bonds make annual payments, have a YTM of 6 percent, and have five years to maturity. The face value is $1000 for both bonds. a. Why is the capital gain yield of the premium bond different from that of the discount bond? Which bond is better in terms of yields? b. What is the holding period return for each bond, if both bonds are held over the next year and sold at the year ned?