To finance a new Fab in Arizona, TSM issued an 8-year, 5.75% coupon bond with semi-annual coupon payments. The current YTM is 6.5%. What is the duration of this bond and how much will the price change if YTM goes up by 1% using the duration approximation method you've learned in this class?

As a bond analyst at Morgan Stanley Investment Banking, you are performing an analysis on bond yield. You have the following data for a bond issued by Intel Corp. The bond has 7% coupon and 20-year maturity. The bond sells for $1,150 and is callable in 10 years at a call price of $1,250. The bond has a face value of $1000 and makes semiannual coupon payments.a. What is the annual Yield to Call? (sample answer: 12.45%)b. What is the annual Yield to Maturity? (sample answer: 12.45%) Give typing answer with explanation and conclusion

A risk-free 3-year annual coupon bond has a 5% coupon rate, a face value of $1,000, and trades for $950. The 1-year spot interest rate is 5%. The 2-year spot interest rate is 5.25%. The 3-year spot interest rate is 5.5%. What is your trading strategy? Please show your cash flows

Arco Industries has a bond outstanding with 15 years to maturity, an 8.25% nominal coupon, semiannual payments, and a $1,000 par value. The bond has a 7.20% yield to maturity, but it can be called in 6 years at a price of $1,045. What is the bond's yield to call? Hint: Calculate the bond's price based on the YTM, and then use that price to find the YTC. Your answer should be between 4.08 and 10.64, rounded to 2 decimal places, with no special characters.

YOUR BANK is thinking to issue a regular coupon bond (debenture) with the following particulars: Maturity = 3 years, Coupon rate = 9%, Face value = $1,500, Coupon payments are annual and paid at the end of a year. In the fixed-income securities market, the yield curve for the bond similar to the one issued by YOUR BANK is flat and it is 7.500% per annum continuously compounded. As per you, what should be the issue (offer) price per bond of YOUR BANK in US dollars?

What is the price of a bond with the following information? It is 1.5 years until expiration. The coupon rate is 7 percent and coupon payments are made once per year. The market rate of return is 5.9 percent. The bond has a face value of 2000 SEK. Tips Draw a time axis so that you do not make any mistakes with the discounting. Don't look at the cash flows as an annuity, but as two separate cash flows. There is always a coupon payment when the bond matures, how long is it then until the next coupon payment? (Answers are rounded to integers) a) 265 b) 2100 c) 1971 d) 1990 e) 2216

A bond has a coupon rate of 5.2%, and 6.5 years until maturity. If the YTM is 6.2%, what is the price of this bond? TIP: Write the price as a percentage of the bonds par value. All bonds in this class make two coupon payments per year, and have a face value of $1,000. You don't need to write in the "%" sign.