Tom Cruise Lines Incorporated issued bonds five years ago at $1,000 per bond. These 30-year life when issued and the annual interest payment was then 14 percent. This return was in line with the required returns by bondholders at that point as described below: Real rate of return Inflation premium Risk premium Total return 3% 6 5 14% Assume that five years later the inflation premium is only 3 percent and is appropriately reflected in the required return (or yield to maturity) of the bonds. The bonds have 25 years remaining until maturity. Compute the new price of the bond. Use Appendix B and Appendix D for an approximate answer but calculate your final answer using the formula and financial calculator methods. 2 decimal places

Grohl Co. issued 9-year bonds a year ago at a coupon rate of 7 percent. The bonds make semiannual payments. If the YTM on these bonds is 10 percent, what is the current bond price?

An insurance company is analyzing the following three bonds, each with five years to maturity, annual interest payments, and is using duration as its measure of interest rate risk. What is the duration of each of the three bonds? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places. (e.g., 32.16)) a. $10,000 par value, coupon rate=9.7%, r 0.17 b. $10,000 par value, coupon rate 11.7%, r= 0.17 c. $10,000 par value, coupon rate = 13.7%, p=0.17 Duration of the bond years

Find the Macaulay duration and the modified duration of a 15​-year, 7.5​% corporate bond priced to yield 5.5​%. According to the modified duration of this​ bond, how much of a price change would this bond incur if market yields rose to 6.5​%? Using annual​ compounding, calculate the price of this bond in one year if rates do rise to 6.5​%. How does this price change compare to that predicted by the modified​ duration? Explain the difference.

(Bond valuation relationships) Arizona Public Utilities issued a bond that pays $80 in interest, with a $1,000 par value. It matures in 25 years. The market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 7 percent. a: Calculate the value of the bond b. How does the value change if the market's required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond () increases to 10 percent or (4) decreases to 6 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 25 years. Recompute 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 markets required yield to maturity on a comparable-risk bond is 7 percent? $1,116.54 (Round to the nearest cent) b. () What is the value of the bond if the market's required yield to…

A $1,000 face value bond issued by the Purdue Company currently pays total annual interest of $80 per year and has a 15-year life.   a-What is the present value, or worth, of this bond if investors are willing to accept a 10 percent annual rate of return on bonds of similar quality bond?   b.  How would your answer change is the bond makes semi-annual payments?   c-How would your answer in (a) change if, one year from now, investors only required a 6 percent annual rate of return on bond investments similar in quality to the Purdue bond? d-Suppose the original bond can be purchased for $925. What is the bond’s yield to maturity?