Chapter 5 : Interet rates Page161 Interest rate quotes and adjustments 5-1. Your bank is offering you an account that will pay 20% interest in total for a two-year deposit. Determine the equivalent discount rate for a period length of a. Six months. b. One year. c. One month. a. Since 6 months is [pic] of 2 years‚ using our rule [pic] So the equivalent 6 month rate is 4.66%. b. Since one year is half of 2 years [pic] So the equivalent 1 year rate is 9.54%. c. Since
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Part 3 Valuation of Securities Chapters in this Part Chapter 6 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Chapter 7 Stock Valuation Integrative Case 3: Encore International © 2012 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Chapter 6 Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Instructor’s Resources Overview This chapter begins with a thorough discussion of interest rates‚ yield curves‚ and their relationship to required returns. Features of the major types of bond issues are
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LECTURE 7 BOND VALUATION CLASS QUESTIONS Information for 1 & 2 Consider the following $1‚000 par value zero-coupon bonds: Bond Years to Maturity Price A 1 $909.09 B 2 $811.62 C 3 $711.78 D 4 $635.52 1). The yield to maturity on bond A is . a. 10% b. 11% c. 12% d. 14%
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is day 0‚ the loan will be initiated on day 60 and will mature on day 210.) The implied forward rate over 150 days‚ and hence the rate on 150-day FRA‚ is 2.5%. The actual interest rate over that period could be either 2.4% or 2.6%. (a) If the interest rate on day 60 is 2.6%‚ how much will the lender have to pay if the FRA is settled on day 60? How much if it is settled on day 210? (b) If the interest rate on day 60 is 2.4%‚ how much will the lender have to pay if the FRA is settled on day 60? How much
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Chapter 5 Bonds and Their Valuation Mini-Case Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice-presidents of Mutual of Seattle Insurance Company and co-directors of the company’s pension fund management division. A major new client‚ the Northwestern Municipal Alliance‚ has requested that Mutual of Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities‚ and Strother and Tibbs‚ who will make the actual presentation‚ have asked you to help them by answering the following questions
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ijokl Interest Rates and Required Returns As noted in Chapter 2‚ financial institutions and markets create the mechanism through which funds flow between savers (funds suppliers) and borrowers (funds demanders). All else being equal‚ savers would like to earn as much interest as possible‚ and borrowers would like to pay as little as possible. The interest rate prevailing in the market at any given time reflects the equilibrium between savers and borrowers. INTEREST RATE FUNDAMENTALS The
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Introduction……………………………………………………………...10 3. Theoretical aspects………………………………………………………13 4. Review of the Literature ……..……………………………………..…..16 5. Determinants of yield curve…………………………………………..…19 6. Analysis………………………………………………………………….31 7. Findings………………………………………………………………….37 8. Bibliography …………………………………………………………….38 9. Appendices ……………………………………………………………...39 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Time series of the yield of the treasury bills…..………………….………...21 Figure 2: Time series
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required return on 11 percent. The risk-free is 7 percent‚ and the market risk premium is 4 percent. What is the stock’s beta? 1.2 1.1 1.0* 0.9 If the market risk premium increases to 6 percent‚ what will happen to the stock’s required rate of return? 6.00% 7.00% 11.00% 13.00%* Stock R has a beta of 1.5‚ Stock S has a beta of 0.75‚ the expected rate of return on an average stock is 13 percent‚ and the risk-free rate of return is 7 percent. By how much does the required return on
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1. The stated interest payment‚ in dollars‚ made on a bond each period is called the bond’s: A. coupon. 2. The principal amount of a bond that is repaid at the end of the term is called the: B. face value. 3. The specified date on which the principal amount of a bond is repaid is called the: C. maturity. 4. The rate of return required by investors in the market for owning a bond is called the: D. yield to maturity. 5. The annual coupon divided by the face value of a bond is called the:
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effects of low interest rates on consumption and investment Dec 1st 2012 | from The Economist print edition WHEN interest rates hit double digits in the late 1970s‚ house-builders sent planks of wood to the Federal Reserve in protest. With rates stuck near zero‚ the protests now come from the opposite direction. The retired complain of a “war on savings”. The Fed cut rates to current levels at the end of 2008 and has promised to keep them there until 2015. Since 2008‚ personal interest income has plunged
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