These are short-term securities issued by the U.S. government with maturities of 13 to 52 weeks: Group of answer choices Commercial paper Bankers' acceptances Treasury bills All of these

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…

dollars of the February 2005 Treasury note? nearest cent.) Data Table (Click on the following icon in order to copy its contents into a spreadsheet.) Today is February 15, 2008 Current Сoupon Rate Maturity Date Typo Issue Price YTM Rating Date Yield Note Feb 2005 8.00% 2-15-2015 5.301% AAA Print Done

The government benchmark bond spot rates, for annual compounding bonds, is shown below: 6.60% 6.90% What is the closest 1-year forward rate 3-year from period zero (f 3.1)? 7.20% 7.50% Year 1 2 7.80% 3 4 5 Spot rate 5.90% 6.40% 6.60% 6.90% 7.30%

Assume that over the past 88 years, U.S. Treasury bills had an average return of 3.5% as compared to 6.1% on long-term government bonds. What was the average risk premium on the long-term government bonds?

4. (a) Treasury bond markets in New Zealand and the U.S. are dealer mar- kets. What are the pros and cons of this market structure as com- pared to trading securities on an exchange? (b) The Reserve Bank of New Zealand reports the following (annually compounded) treasury bond spot rates (as of 26 July 2022). Maturity 1 year 2 years 5 years 10 years Rate 3.38 3.53 3.53 3.60 Can we conclude that the market is expecting short term interest rates to rise over the next 10 years? Discuss. (c) You are in the United States. You decide that the market has under- estimated the yield on long term Treasury bonds. You observe the following bond: Maturity 15 May 2052 Coupon 2.875 Price 97.1340 Yield 3.007 Describe how you would use this bond to trade in order to profit from your beliefs.

A central bank has a policy of intervening in the market for its government’s debt to ensure 10-year, zero-coupon bond yields stay within the range of 2% to 4%. Assume the zero-coupon bonds have a par value of 100 units. Explain clearly what enforcing this policy requires the central bank to do. (including bond prices relevant for implementing this policy, and comments on the credibility of the policy at the 2% bound and at the 4% bound.)

3. The cash prices of 6-month and 1-year Treasury bills are 94.0 and 89.0. A 1.5-year bond that will pay coupons of $4 every 6 months currently sells for $94.84. A 2-year bond that will pay coupons of $5 every 6 months currently sells for $97.12. Calculate the 6-month, 1-year, 1.5-year, and 2-year zero rates.

Which of the following statements describes money market securities? Group of answer choices Money market securities are long-term claims with an original maturity that is generally more than one year. Money market securities are short-term claims with an original maturity that is generally two years or less. Money market securities are short-term claims with an original maturity that is generally six months or less. Money market securities are short-term claims with an original maturity that is generally one year or less.

Which of the following statements correctly describes characteristics of an Australian 13-week Treasury note? Group of answer choices A. If market yields don’t change then the value of the Treasury Note will decrease each day until its price is equal to its face value at expiry. B. Treasury notes are not issued by private companies. C. The coupons offered by a Treasury Note are generally set equal to the market yield to maturity to ensure that the issuer can raise the face value of the note at the time of issuance. D. None of the other statements are correct.