12-2W\V. The Federal Reserve Bank monitors interest rates on a wide variety of financial instruments.

a. Go to www.federalreserve.gov/releases/hI5/update/ and find the most recent rares for U.S. Treasury Bills with four-week, three-month, and six-month maturities.

b. The term structure of interest rates contains the rates of interest on U.S. Treasury securities.

Use the above site to determine the most recent rates for one- to thirty-year U.S.

securities. Graph the term structure and comment on the relationship between rates and term to maturity.