You enter into a forward contract to buy a 10-year, zero coupon bond that will be issued
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You enter into a forward contract to buy a 10-year, zero coupon bond that will be issued in one year. The face value of the bond is $1,000 and the 1-year and 11-year spot interest rates are 6 percent and 8 percent, respectively.
a. What is the forward price of your contract?
b. Suppose both the 1-year and 11-year spot rates unexpectedly shift downward by 2 percent.
What is the new price of the forward contract?
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Corporate Finance
ISBN: 9781265533199
13th International Edition
Authors: Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe
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