You have been considering a zero-coupon bond, which pays no interest but will pay a principal of

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You have been considering a zero-coupon bond, which pays no interest but will pay a principal of \(\$ 1,000\) at the end of five years. The price of the bond is now \(\$ 712.99\), and its required rate of return is \(7.0 \%\). This morning's news contained a surprising development. The government announced that the rate of inflation appears to be \(5.5 \%\) instead of the \(4 \%\) that most people had been expecting. (Suppose most people had thought the real rate of interest was \(3 \%\).) What would be the price of the bond, once the market began to absorb this new information about inflation?

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Foundations Of Financial Markets And Institutions

ISBN: 9780136135319

4th Edition

Authors: Frank J Fabozzi, Franco G Modigliani, Frank J Jones

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