Interest Rate Risk. Consider three bonds with 8 percent coupon rates, all selling at face value. The

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Interest Rate Risk. Consider three bonds with 8 percent coupon rates, all selling at face value. The short-term bond has a maturity of 4 years, the intermediate-term bond has maturity 8 years, and the long-term bond has maturity 30 years.

a. What will happen to the price of each bond if their yields increase to 9 percent?

b. What will happen to the price of each bond if their yields decrease to 7 percent?

c. What do you conclude about the relationship between time to maturity and the sensitivity of bond prices to interest rates?

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Study Guide To Accompany Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance

ISBN: 9780073012421

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Authors: Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Alan Marcus

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