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please answer question 2 and 3 and 4 FIN A46000-Assignment #1 September, 2018 An

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please answer question 2 and 3 and 4

FIN A46000-Assignment #1 September, 2018 Answer questions on a separate piece of paper. Show your work. 1. A recent listing for a Treasury bill in the Wall Street Journal gave an Asked Discount Yield of 2.25%. Its maturity was 120 days. a. What is the T-bill's coupon (bond) equivalent yield? b. What price would a bank pay for this T-bill? c. What is the effective annual yield for the T-bill? d. If the Bid Discount Yield was 2.40%, what was the dealer's "spread" on the bill (in S)? 2. An investor just purchased a 182 day maturity Treasury bill for 98.625 a. What is the coupon equivalent yield? b. What is the bank discount yield? 3. A Treasury note with a maturity of eight years and a coupon interest rate of 4.50% was quoted at a price of 98. What is this T-note's yield to maturity? 4. An IBM zero coupo n bond with a maturity in September, 2026, has a price of 53.5 (percent). What is the bond's yield to maturity? 5, An Exxon bond (par value 100) has a maturity of 15 years and a coupon interest rate of 6.3%. If you require a yield to maturity of 7% on similar risk bonds, what is the value (price) of this bond? 6, A Citigroup zero coupon bond has a maturity of six years and a yield of 7% . Interest rates are expected to increase by 1.25%. Based on duration what price change do you expect for this bond? 7. An ATT bond (100 par value) which matures in exactly three years (September, 2021) has a coupon of 6.8%. The price of the bond is 96.8547. Your required rate of return is 8%. a. What is this bond's modified duration? b. Ifyou expect yields to decrease by i % (100 basis points), what is the approximate price c. Compute the actual price change. change expected on this ATT bond?

Explanation / Answer

Answer 2:

Purchased Treasury bill at = 98.625

Maturity = 182 days

Coupon Equivalent yield (CEY) = (Interest amount Paid, Between Now and Maturity / Purchase Price) x (365 / Days to Maturity)

= (100 - 98.625) / 98.625 * (365 / 182)

= 2.796%

= 2.80% (rounded off to 2 decimal)

Bank Discount Yield = [(Face value - Issue Price) / Face Value] * (360 / Days to Maturity)

= [(100 - 98.625) /100] * (360/182)

= 2.71978%

= 2.72% (rounded off to 2 decimal)

Answer 3:

Treasury notes pay interest at fixed coupon rate and usually have face value of $1000.

Purchase of price of 98 = $1,000 * 98% = $980

Maturity period = 8 years

Semiannual periods = 8 * 2 = 16

Coupon rate = 4.5%

Semiannual Coupon amount = $1,000 * 4.5%/2 =$22.50

Using excel function RATE,

RATE (nper, pmt, pv ,fv , type)

RATE (32, 22.5,-980, 1000, 0)

=2.402%

Hence Yield to Maturity = 2.402% * 2

= 4.804%

= 4.80% (rounded off to two decimals)

Answer 4:

Zero discount bond :

Maturity in Sep 2026.

Maturity period (assuming issued in Sep 2018) = 8 years

Maturity value = 1000

Current/Issue price = 53.5% of maturity value = 53.5% * 1000 = 535

Zero discount bonds do not make any periodic coupon payments.

Using RATE function of Excel:

RATE (nper, pmt, pv ,fv , type)

RATE (8, 0, -535, 1000, 0)

= 8.1324%

= 8.13% (rounded off to two decimals)

Yield to maturity = 8.13%